Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Clausocalanoidea ( Superfamily )
        Aetideidae ( Family )
            Chiridiella ( Genus )
Chiridiella chainae  Grice, 1969   (F)
Ref.:
Grice, 1969 a (p.446, Descr.F, figs.F); Markhaseva, 1996 (p.93, figs.F)
Species Chiridiella chainae - Plate 1 of morphological figuresissued from : G.D. Grice in Bull. mar. Sc., 1969, 19 (2). [p.447, Figs. 1-15].
Female (from 20°40'N, 84°26'W): 1, habitus (lateral right side); 2, A1 (segments 1-14); 3, A1 (segments 15-18); 4, A1 (segments 19-23); 5, A2; 6, Md (mandibular palp); 7, Md (cutting edge of mandibular blade); 8, Mx1; 9, Mx2; 10, basal portion of Mxp; 11, distal portion of Mxp; 12, P1; 13, P2; 14, P3; 15, P4.
Nota: Cephalothorax about 4 times length of urosome. Head weakly fused with 1st thoracic segment, 4th and 5th fused. Posterolateral margin of cephalothorax somewhat truncatedUrosome 4-segmented, genital segment protruded ventrally. A1 extends slightly beyond caudal rami. Gnathobase of Mx1 large, exopod absent. Mx2 with 5 lobes, the first four each bearing a large and a small seta; the distal lobe has, in addition to a large and a small seta, 2 fine setae.


Species Chiridiella chainae - Plate 2 of morphological figuresissued from : G.A. Deevey in Bull. Mar. Sc., 1974, 24 (2). [p.466, Fig.16].
Female (from 32°10'N, 64°30'W): a, habitus (lateral); b, Mx2; c, P4; d, P1; e, Mx1; f, Mxp (endopod setae not shown).
Scale at lower left for part a; at lower right for parts b-f. Scales in mm.


Species Chiridiella chainae - Plate 3 of morphological figuresissued from : G.A. Deevey in Bull. Mar. Sc., 1974, 24 (2). [p.459, Fig.11, c].
Female: c, habitus (dorsal).
Scale in mm.


Species Chiridiella chainae - Plate 4 of morphological figuresIssued from : E.L. in Proc. Zool; Inst. RAN, 1996, 268. [p.95, Fig.70]. After Grice, 1969.
Female: Mx2.


Species Chiridiella chainae - Plate 5 of morphological figuresChiridiella chainae female:
1 - Mx2 with 5 endites.
2 - Mx2 not strongly modified in comparison with typical. Setation first-fifth endites nearly of the same size.
3 - Endopod of P1 without external lobe.
4 - Exopod of P1 with 1 external spine.

Species Chiridiella chainae - Plate 6 of morphological figuresChiridiella chainae female ;
1 - Mx2 lobes without spines arranged as pincers.
2 - 3rd, 4th and 5th lobes of Mx2 with enlarged hooklike spines .
4 - A1 longer than body, reaching just beyond the caudal rami.
5 - Cephalothorax around 4 times length of urosome.
6 - P1 exopod with 1 edge spine.

Compl. Ref.:
Deevey & Brooks, 1977 (p.256, tab.2, Station "S"); Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p107)
NZ: 1

Distribution map of Chiridiella chainae by geographical zones
Loc:
Caribbean Sea, Sargasso Sea (off Bermuda: Station "S" : 32°10'N, 64°30'W;
N: 3
Lg.:
(225) F: 3,56; {F: 3,56}
Rem.: meso & bathypelagic. Sargasso Sea: 500-1000 m Deevey & Brooks, 1977, station "S");
This species resembles C. brachydactyla Sars, 1907, and C. subaequalis Grice & Hulsemann, 1965, but these two species have an exopod on Mx1.
For Deevey (1974, p.465) the female from off Bermuda agrees with Grice’s description, although the endopods of legs 3 and 4 were 2-segmented (1st two segments not being completely separated). Mx2 is of the btachydactyla type, but more modified and reduced and represents an intermediate stage between the brachydactyla and macrodactyla types.
Last update : 02/09/2021
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