Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Clausocalanoidea ( Superfamily )
        Euchaetidae ( Family )
            Paraeuchaeta ( Genus )
Paraeuchaeta californica  (Esterly, 1906)   (F,M)
Syn.: Euchaeta californica Esterly, 1906 a (p.60, Descr.F, figs.F); Davis, 1949 (p.37, figs.F); Vervoort, 1957 (p.77); Fleminger, 1967 a (tabl.1); Grice & Hulsemann, 1967 (p.15); Park, 1977 (p.135, Redescr., figs.F,M); Gardner & Szabo, 1982 (p.260, figs.F,M, Rem.); Park, W & al., 2004 (p.464, tab.1); Euchaeta dubia Esterly, 1906 a (p.63, Descr.M, figs.M); Grice & Hulsemann, 1968 (tab.2); Pareuchaeta dubia : Brodsky, 1950 (p.222, figs.M); no Paraeuchaeta californica : A. Scott, 1909 (p.71, figs.F); Sewell, 1929 (p.158); no Pareuchaeta californica : Tanaka & Omori, 1968 (p.231); Pareuchaeta californica : Brodsky, 1950 (1967) (p.211, figs.F); C.B. Wilson, 1950 (p.277, figs.F,M); Guangshan & Honglin, 1984 (p.118, tab., Rem.: p.165); Paraeuchaeta dubia: De Decker & Mombeck, 1964 (p.13)
Ref.:
Sewell, 1948 (p.556, 563); Bradford & al., 1983 (p.20, Rem.); Park, 1994 (p.320, 325); 1995 (p.54, Rem.F,M, figs.F,M)
Species Paraeuchaeta californica - Plate 1 of morphological figuresissued from : T. Park in Bull. Scripps Inst. Oceanogr. Univ. California, San Diego, 1995, 29. [p.157, Fig.47].
Female: a, forehead (left side); b, urosome (left); c, genital somite (left); d, outer lobe of Mx1; e, exopod of P1 (anterior); f, exopod of P2 (anterior).

Male: g, forehead (left); h, distal exopodal segments of left 5th leg (lateral, tilted clockwise).


Species Paraeuchaeta californica - Plate 2 of morphological figuresissued from : T. Park in Crustaceana, 1977, 32 (2). [p.137, Fig.1]. From off San Diego
Female: a, forehead (lateral; fe = frontal eminence); b, genital segment (lateral right side; gf = genital flange, pe posterior edge of genital field); c, genital segment (dorsal); d, genital field (ventral; gf = genital flange); e, outer lobe of Mx1; ; f, P1 (anterior view); g, exopod of P2 (anterior).
Nota: A1 reaching about to middle of genital segment.

Male: h, forehead (lateral); i, distal part of exopod of P2; j, distal part of exopod of left P5 (lateral; dp = digitiform process); k, idem (anterior); l, idem (medial).


Species Paraeuchaeta californica - Plate 3 of morphological figuresissued from : C.O. Esterly in Univ. Calif. Publs Zool., 3 (5). [Pl.IX, Fig.11]. As Euchaeta californica
Female (from San Diego, California): 11, forehead (lateral).


Species Paraeuchaeta californica - Plate 4 of morphological figuresissued from : C.O. Esterly in Univ. Calif. Publs Zool., 3 (5). [Pl.X, Figs.26, 34]. As Euchaeta californica
Female: 26, genital segment (ventral); 34, genital segment and last thoracic segment (lateral).


Species Paraeuchaeta californica - Plate 5 of morphological figuresissued from : C.O. Esterly in Univ. Calif. Publs Zool., 1906, 3 (5). [Pl.9, Fig.7]. As Euchaeta dubia.
Male (from San Diego, California): 7, forehead (lateral).


Species Paraeuchaeta californica - Plate 6 of morphological figuresissued from : C.O. Esterly in Univ. Calif. Publs Zool., 1906, 3 (5). [Pl.11, Fig.36]. As Euchaeta dubia.
Male: 36, last thoracic segment and genital segment (lateral, right side).


Species Paraeuchaeta californica - Plate 7 of morphological figuresissued from : C.O. Esterly in Univ. Calif. Publs Zool., 1906, 3 (5). [Pl.13, Fig.66]. As Euchaeta dubia.
Male: 66, distal portion of 2nd and 3rd segments of exopod of P2.


Species Paraeuchaeta californica - Plate 8 of morphological figuresissued from : C.O. Esterly in Univ. Calif. Publs Zool., 1906, 3 (5). [Pl.14, Figs.84, 85]. As Euchaeta dubia.
Male: 84, P5; 85, distal portion of 2nd segment of exopod of left P5.

Compl. Ref.:
Brinton & al., 1986 (p.228, Table 1); Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p.109); Galbraith, 2009 (pers. comm.)
NZ: 4 + 3 doubtful

Distribution map of Paraeuchaeta californica by geographical zones
Species Paraeuchaeta californica - Distribution map 2
Chart of 1996
Loc:
G. d'Alaska (Icery Strait), off Cape Flattery, off Oregon, California, Gulf of California, Central America, Pacif. equatorial (E & SE), [? Afr. S (E) (in De Decker & Mombeck, 1964); ? G. du Bengale (in Sewell, 1913, p.354), off Ceylan (in Sewell, 1929, p.158), Indien SW (in Grice & Hulsemann, 1967); Pacif. W (équatorial) (in Guangshan & Honglin, 1984); off Is. Juan Fernandez, off S Chile(in Yamanaka, 1976, p.170)]
N: 9
Lg.:
(3) F: 8,2-7,6; M: 7,6-6,8; (17) F: 8; M: 7,8; (22) F: 8-7; M: 7,8; (396) F: 8,08-7,91; M: ± 7,5; {F: 7,00-8,20; M: 6,80-7,80}
Rem.: mesopelagic depths of oceanic waters after Brinton & al., 1986 (p.245).
The locality records outside the Pacific are to be confirmed, the same for southern Chili and in the southern Chinese Sea.
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