Pseudochirella lobata - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

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Pseudochirella lobata (Sars, 1907) (F)

Abbreviations or symbols

Syn.:

Undeuchaeta lobata Sars,1907 a (p.11, Rem.F)

Ref.:

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List of the studied authors )

Sars, 1925 (p.93, figs.F); Sewell, 1948 (p.500); Grice & Hülsemann, 1968 (p.327); Markhaseva, 1989 (p.38, fig.F); 1996 (p.269, figs.F)

Species Pseudochirella lobata - Plate 1 of morphological figures

Issued from : G.O. Sars in Résult. Camp. Scient. Prince Albert I, 69, pls.1-127 (1924). [Pl.XXV, figs.11-13].
Female (from 38°04'N, 26°07'30''W)): 11, habitus (dorsal); 12, idem (lateral left side); 13, basipodal segment of P4.

Head and 1st thoracic segment with suture weakly marked.
Cephalothorax about 4 times longer than urosome
Corners of thoracic segment 5 rounded, not reaching the midlength of genital segment (extending backward ± 1/3 genital segment).
A1 reaching the midlength of urosome
Coxopodite of P4 with comb of 12 spines across mediodistal portion of posterior surface.
Urosomal segments 2 and 3 hairy.

Issued from : E.L. Markhaseva in USSR Acad. Sci., Zool. Inst., Explor. Fauna Seas. Marine Plankton, 1989, 41 (49). [p.52, Fig.5].
Female: Thoracic segment 5 and genital segment.
Nota from the key:
1 - Genital segment symmetrical.
2 - Thoracic posterior corners segment 5 symmetrical.
3 - Exopodite segment 2 with 1 seta.
4 - Thoracic posterior corners segment 5 without points.
5 - Thoracic posterior corners protruded into lobes.
6 - Lobes rounded in lateral view.

Complement after Markhaseva (1996, p.271): Genital segment symmetrical (dorsal view), more broadened in its midlength.
Urosomal segments 2-3 covered with hairs.
Exopodite of P1 3-segmented.
Endopodite of P2 2-segmented.
Coxopodite of P4 with row of fan-like 12 little spines.

NZ:

Distribution map of Pseudochirella lobata by geographical zones

Loc:

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Geographical glossary )

N Atlant. (Azores Is.).

Type locality: 38°04'N, 26°07'W.

Lg.:

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References of the authors concerning dimensions )

(1) F: 6,5; {F: 6,50}

Rem.:

Sampling: 0-2500 m.

Last update : 30/01/2015


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