Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Pseudocyclopoidea ( Superfamily )
        Boholinidae ( Family )
            Boholina ( Genus )
Boholina crassicephala  Fosshagen, 1989   (F,M)
Ref.:
Fosshagen & Iliffe, 1989 (p.202, Descr.F,M, figs.F,M); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.76, 77: figs.F,M); Boxshall & Jaume, 2012 (p.53: Rem., 57)
Species Boholina crassicephala - Plate 1 of morphological figuresissued from : A. Fosshagen & T.M. Iliffe in Sarsia, 1989, 74. [p.203, Fig.1].
Female (from Bohol, Philippines): A-B, habitus (lateral and dorsal, respectively); C, rostrum and frontal part of forehead; D, urosome (dorsal); E, A1; F, A2; G, Md; H, Mx1; I, Mx2.

Nota: Front of prosome bears a clearly defined transverse crest-like structure.
A1 25-segmented, reacing slightly beyond pediger 3; well equiped with aesthetascs along its whole length and with particularly long setae on segments 3, 7, 9, 12 and 21.
Urosome 3-segmented.
Urosome genital openings widely separate ventrally; posterior ventral margin of genital segment with an alternating coarsely serrated and a finely striated margin.
Md bears a gnathobase with short pointed teeth.
Caudal rami produced into a pointed process distally


Species Boholina crassicephala - Plate 2 of morphological figuresissued from : A. Fosshagen & T.M. Iliffe in Sarsia, 1989, 74. [p.204, Fig.2].
Female: A, Mxp; B, Mxp with setae partly omitted; C, P1; D, P2; E, P3; F, P4; G, P5.


Species Boholina crassicephala - Plate 3 of morphological figuresissued from : A. Fosshagen & T.M. Iliffe in Sarsia, 1989, 74. [p.205, Fig.3].
Male: A, habitus (dorsal); B, right A1; C, P5 (posterior; left exopod somewhat twisted); D, left P5 (anterior); E, right P5 (anterior).

Nota: Right A1 geniculate, 21-segmented; anterodistal margin of segment 19 extended into a short flattened and rounded process.Urosome 4-segmented


Species Boholina crassicephala - Plate 4 of morphological figuresIssued from : V.N. Andronov in Russian Acad. Sci. P.P. Shirshov Inst. Oceanol. Atlantic Branch, Kaliningrad, 2014. [p.45, Fig.13, 5]. Boholina crassicephala after Fosshagen & Iliffe, 1989.
Female P1.

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Boholina crassicephala by geographical zones
Loc:
Philippines: Bohol Is. (San Vicente Cave)
N: 2
Lg.:
(320) F: 0,85-0,75; M: 0,77-0,7; {F: 0,75-0,85; M: 0,70-0,77}
Rem.: Brackish.
For Boxshall & Jaume (2012, p.53) the anal somite has been overlooked in both sexes in the original description (Fosshagen & Iliffe, 1989); urosome female and male with 4 and 5 segments respectively.
Last update : 20/04/2016
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