Epicalymma brittoni - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

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Epicalymma brittoni Heron, English & Damkaer, 1984 (F)

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List of the studied authors )

Heron & al.,1984 (p.479, 488, Descr.F, figs.F)

Species Epicalymma brittoni - Plate 1 of morphological figures

issued from : G.A. Heron, T.S. English & D.M. Damkaer in J. Crustacean Biol., 1984, 4 (3). [p.477, Fig.15, H-J].
Female (from fArctic): H, habitus (lateral; scale bar: w); I, posterior last prosomal segment and urosome (dorsal; scale bar: w); J, left A1 (scale bar: w).

Species Epicalymma brittoni - Plate 2 of morphological figures

issued from : G.A. Heron, T.S. English & D.M. Damkaer in J. Crustacean Biol., 1984, 4 (3). [p.481, Fig.16].
Female: A, right A2 (scale bar: z); B, labrum (ventral; scale bar: x); C, right Md (scale bar: x); D, left Mx1 (scale bar: x); E, right Mx2 (scale bar: x); F, right Mxp (scale bar: x); G, P1 (scale bar: z); H, P2 (scale bar: z).

Species Epicalymma brittoni - Plate 3 of morphological figures

issued from : G.A. Heron, T.S. English & D.M. Damkaer in J. Crustacean Biol., 1984, 4 (3). [p.482, Fig.17, A-B].
Female: A, P3 (scale bar: z); B, P4 (scale bar: z).

issued from : G.A. Heron, T.S. English & D.M. Damkaer in J. Crustacean Biol., 1984, 4 (3). [p.480].
Female: Armature of swimming legs P1-P4.
Roman numerals: spines; arabic numerals = setae. Si: inner setae; St: terminal setae; Se: outer setae.

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Distribution map of Epicalymma brittoni by geographical zones

Loc:

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Geographical glossary )

Arct., Norwegian Sea

Lg.:

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References of the authors concerning dimensions )

(675) F: 0,68-0,54; {F: 0,54-0,68}

Rem.:

bathypelagic.
For Heron & al. (1984, p.483), a shorter seta reptrsenting P5 and the more widely rounded process which arises on the swimming P1-P4 basis, between the endopod and exopod, distinguishes E. brittoni from the other Epicalymma species. Collected below 500 m.

Last update : 10/02/2010


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