Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Clausocalanoidea ( Superfamily )
        Scolecitrichidae ( Family )
            Scolecithrix ( Genus )
Scolecithrix longipes  Giesbrecht, 1892   (F)
Syn.: ? Amallothrix Farrani Rose, 1942 (p.130, figs.F, Rem.);
Scolecithricella longipes : Sewell, 1948 (p.508); Tanaka, 1962 (p.47, figs.F);1965 a (p.19); Carter, 1977 (1978) (p.35); Roe, 1984 (p.357); Kuriyama & Nishida, 2006 (p.293, 300: Tab.II; fig.7, 10, vertical distribution); Vives & Shmeleva, 2007 (p.781, figs.F, Rem.)
Ref.:
Giesbrecht, 1892 (p.266, 283, 775, fig.F); Giesbrecht & Schmeil, 1898 (p.43, Rem. F); Bradford, 1973 (p.142); Bradford & al., 1983 (p.103); Vyshkvartzeva, 1999 (2000) (p.234)
Species Scolecithrix longipes - Plate 1 of morphological figuresissued from : O. Tanaka in Publ. Seto Mar. Biol. Lab., 1962, X (1). [p.47, Fig.132]. As Scolecithricella longipes.
Female (from Sagami Bay): a, habitus (dorsal); b, forehead (left lateral side); c, last thoracic segment and urosome (left lateral side); d, P2; e, P3; f, 5th pair of legs (abnormal: right leg stump), the left leg incompletely 3-jointed.

Nota Female:
- Abdomen 4-segmented; proportional lengths of abdomen and caudal rami 38 : 21 : 19 : 5 : 17 = 100.
- Genital segment cylindrical, longer than wide.
- Caudal rami 1.7 times as long as wide.
- A1 21-segmented, reaches back to the distal margin of the 2nd abdominal segment.
- A2 exopod about as long as endopod (23 : 22).
- Mx1 with 7+2 setae on the outer lobe, 6 setae on exopod, 5+3 setae on endopod, 5 setae on the 2nd basal segment.
- Mx2 with 3 long vermiform and 5 bud-like sensory filaments on the distal segments.
- P1 to P4 as those of Scolecithrix vittata.
- P2 with a moderately long outer edge spine on the 1st exopodal segment, extending about to the middle of the 2nd segment. Terminal spine of exopod with 34 teeth.
- P3 and P4 with terminal spine of exopod each 24 and 38 teeth.
- In the present specimen, P5 of abnormal structure; the right leg stump; the left leg incompletely 3-segmenred; the spine on the distal segment not strong.


Species Scolecithrix longipes - Plate 2 of morphological figuresIssued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.13, Fig.30].
Female: 13, P5.

Compl. Ref.:
Belmonte, 2018 (p.273, Table I: Italian zones)
NZ: 4

Distribution map of Scolecithrix longipes by geographical zones
Loc:
South Africa (E) (Natal), off W Cabo Finisterre, W Medit. (Napoli), Japan (Sagami Bay)
N: 6
Lg.:
(47) F: 1,65; (117) F: 1,73; (1000) F: 1,8 ± 0,1; {F: 1,65-1,90}
Rem.: Mesopelagic.
Probable in the Genus Scolecithricella.
Cf; Amallothrix farrani Rose (1942, p.130), probably synonym.
Last update : 18/01/2021
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