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| Calanoida ( Order ) |  |  |  
|     Calanoidea ( Superfamily ) |  |  |  
|         Paracalanidae ( Family ) |  |  |  
|             Calocalanus ( Genus ) |  |  |  |  |  |  
| | Calocalanus curtus  Andronov, 1973   (F) |  | 
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Ref.: |  |  |  | Andronov, 1973 a (p.1408, Descr.F, figs.F) |  | |  issued from : V.N. Andronov in  Zool. Zh., 1973, 52 (9). [p.1408, Fig.2, (8-14)]. Female (from S Sri-Lanka): 8-9, habitus (lateral and dorsal, respectively); 10-13, P1 to P4; 14, P5.
 |  |  |  |  |  |  | Compl. Ref.: |  |  | Madhupratap & Haridas, 1986 (p.105, tab.1); Cornils & Blanco-Bercial, 2013 (p.861, Table 1, molecular analysis, figs.3, 4, 5); |  |  |  |  | NZ: | 3 |  |  |  |  |   
  			
				
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				  Distribution map of Calocalanus curtus by geographical zones
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Loc: |  |  |  | Indian (S Sri Lanka), Galapagos Is. (in Arcos & Bonilla, 1989 a, p.16: as C. curta), E Atlant. (tropical) 
 Data from Cornils & Blanco-Bercial (2013): 01°00'S: 09°00'W (W Guinea Basin)
 |  |  |  |  | N: | 3 |  |  |  |  | Lg.: |  |  |  | (423) F: 0,74-0,61; {F: 0,61-0,74} |  |  |  |  | Rem.: | epipelagic. For Andronov (1973, p.1410) this species differs from the closely related C. cristalli Shmeleva, 1968,  in the form of cephalothorax, presence of 7 setae on the 3rd segment of endopodite P2 and glabrous apical seta P5.
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