Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Spinocalanoidea ( Superfamily )
        Spinocalanidae ( Family )
            Mimocalanus ( Genus )
Mimocalanus nudus  Farran, 1908   (F,M)
Syn.: Mimocalanus sulcifrons (M) : Wheeler, 1970 (p.7, figs.M)
Ref.:
Farran, 1908 b (p.24, Descr.F, figs.F); Sewell, 1948 (p.483); Farran & Vervoort, 1951 h (n°40, p.3, figs.F); Grice & Hulseman, 1965 (p.223, 227, figs.M, Rem.M); Damkaer, 1975 (part., p.69, figs.176, 178-180); Brodsky & al.,1983 (p.307, figs.M, Rem.F,M); Vives & Shmeleva, 2007 (p.825, figs.F,M, Rem.)
Species Mimocalanus nudus - Plate 1 of morphological figuresissued from : D.M. Damkaer in NOAA Technical Report NMFS CIRC-391, Seattle, 1975. [p.71, Fig.176, 178-180].
Female: 176, P1; 178, P2; 179, P3; 180, P4.


Species Mimocalanus nudus - Plate 2 of morphological figuresissued from : G.D. Grice & K. Hulsemann in J. Zool., 1965, 146. [p.228, Fig.6, a-l].
Male (from NE Atlant.): a, habitus (dorsal); b, idem (lateral left side); c, proximal portion of A1; d, sensory filament from A1; e, Md (mandibular palp); f, Md (end of the masticatory blade); g, Mx1; h, Mx2; i, Mxp; j, P1 (2nd and 3rd exopod segments missing); k, right P5; l, left P5.
Nota: Head and 1st thoracic segment separate, 4th and 5th separate. Proximal segments of A1 with sheath-like sensory filaments. Left and right P5 (5-segmented) equal.


Species Mimocalanus nudus - Plate 3 of morphological figuresIssued from : E.H. Wheeler, Jr in Smiths. Contr. Zool., 1970, 55. [p.17, Figs.5-12]. As Mimocalanus sulcifrons.
Male (from 24°33'N, 69°30'W): 5, habitus (lateral); 6, forehead (ventral view); 7, idem (dorsal view); 8, habitus (dorsal); 9, P5; 10, Md (gnathal lobe); 11, Md (mandibular palp); 12, A2.
Nota: Lateral margin of 1st pediger segment minutely dentate. 4th and 5th pediger segments fused. Urosome f 5 subequal segments. Rostrum absent. Anterior portion of cephalosome appears bilobed, indented dorsally with rounded, V-shaped groove, bearing fine setae on interior sides.. A1 24-segmented ( segments 2-8 adorned with horn-shaped esthetes), reaching beyond caudal rami.


Species Mimocalanus nudus - Plate 4 of morphological figuresIssued from : E.H. Wheeler, Jr in Smiths. Contr. Zool., 1970, 55. [p.18, Figs.13-17]. As Mimocalanus sulcifrons.
Male: 13, A1; 14, Mx1; 15, Mx2; 16, Mxp; 17, P1 (last 2 exopod segments missing).


Species Mimocalanus nudus - Plate 5 of morphological figuresIssued from : E.H. Wheeler, Jr in Smiths. Contr. Zool., 1970, 55. [p.19, Figs.18-20]. As Mimocalanus sulcifrons.
Male: 18, P2 (rest of endopod and exopod missing); 19, P3 (idem); 20, P4 (idem).


Species Mimocalanus nudus - Plate 6 of morphological figuresissued from : G.P. Farran in Fish. Ire. Sci. Invest., 1906, II [1908]. [Pl. I, Figs.1-4] .
Female (from 55°0'N, 10°48'W): 1, P3; 2, A2; 3, Md (mandibular palp); 4, Mxp.

Compl. Ref.:
Grice & Hulsemann, 1967 (p.14); Park, 1970 (p.475); Roe, 1972 (p.277, tabl.2); Vives, 1982 (p.290); Lozano Soldevilla & al., 1988 (p.58); Holmes, 2001 (p.41); Schnack-Schiel & al., 2008 (p.1046: Tab.2); Medellin-Mora & Navas S., 2010 (p.265, Tab. 2)
NZ: 5

Distribution map of Mimocalanus nudus by geographical zones
Loc:
Antarct. (W Weddell Sea), Canaries, Mer des Antilles, Caribbean Colombia, G. du Mexique, off Bahamas E, off Irlande W, Indien W
N: 10
Lg.:
(13) F: 2,7-2,28; M: 2,5; (24) F: 2,64; (131) F: 2,64-2,1; M: 2,37-1,9; (199) F: 2,43-2,28; (203) M: 2,02; {F: 2,10-2,70; M: 1,90-2,50}
Rem.: bathypelagic.
Brodsky & al. (1983, p.307, Rem.: p.309) do not follow the synonymy established by Damkaer (1975, p.69, Rem.: p. 72).
For Grice & Hulsemann (1965, p.227) the male differs from M. cultrifer by the size and the left and right lengths of P5.
The occurrence of this species in W Weddell Sea (between 500-1000 m) by Schnack-Schiel & al. (2008 (p.1046: Tab.2) is surprising.
For Wheeler (1970, p.9) the male is close to one described by Grice & Hulemann as M. nudus except for minor differences in the number of setae on the oral appendages, the fusion of the last two pediger segments, and the unique configuration of the front of the cephalosome.
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