Famille des Rataniidae - Copépodes planctoniques marins

Siphonostomatoida ( Ordre )	détails

Abréviations ou symboles

Rataniidae Giesbrecht, 1897 ( Siphonostomatoida )

Ref.:

Giesbrecht, 1897 (p.19); 1899 (p.105); Rose, 1939 (p.30, Rem.); Saraswathy, 1961 (p.141); Heron & Damkaer, 1969 (p.18); Razouls, 1982 (p.720); Bowman & Abele,1982 (p.13); Marcotte, 1982 (p.195); Huys & Boxshall,1991 (p.422); Razouls,1993 (p.213); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.16; 815: Def.); Vives & Shmeleva, 2010 (p.407, Rem.)

Rem.:

Pélagique. 1 G.: Ratania.

Issued from : G.A. Boxshall & S.H. Halsey in The Ray Society, 2004, N°166, Part II. [p.816, Fig.280].
A, Ratania atlantica female; B, Ratania flava male; C, A2; D, female P5; E, Md; F, male A1; G, Mx1.
From Boxshall, 1979.

Issued from : G.A. Boxshall & S.H. Halsey in The Ray Society, 2004, N°166, Part II. [p.815].
Armature formula of swimming legs P1 to P4.
Nota: Swimming legs P1 to P4 biramous, with 3-segmented rami. Intercoxal sclerites present in legs P1 to P4. Inner seta on basis of P1 absent; inner coxal seta present in P1 to P4.
- P5 comprising a protopodal segment incorporated into somite and free 1-segmented exopod, armed with 5 setae in both sexes.
- P6 represented by 2 small spines on genital operculum in female and by 1 seta on genital operculum in male.

(1) Ratania Giesbrecht, 1892

Espèces, variétés et détails

Ref.:

Giesbrecht, 1892 (p.83, 616); 1899 (p.105); Wilson, 1932 a (p.588); Rose, 1933 a (p.284); 1939 (p.28); Saraswathy, 1961 (p.141); Ummerkutty, 1968 (p.303: Rem.): Boxshall, 1979 (p.238); Razouls, 1982 (p.720); 1993 (p.313); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.815: spp. key); Vives & Shmeleva, 2010 (p.407, Rem., spp. Key.)

Rem.:

type: Ratania flava Giesbrecht,1891. Total: 2 spp.

Remarques sur les dimensions et le sex-ratio:

The mean female size is 1.825 mm (n = 4; SD = 0.7932) and the mean male size is 1.853 mm (n = 4; SD = 0.8857). The size ratio (male/female) is 0.92 - 1.63, or approximately 101.5 %. The sex ratio (female/male) is 1 (in 2014).