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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Xanthocalanus squamatus  Farran, 1936   (F)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Clausocalanoidea
Family Phaennidae

References

Farran, 1936 a (p.93, Descr.F, figs.F); Bradford & al., 1983 (p.71); Bradford-Grieve, 2004 b (p.630, tab.1)

Figures

Plate 1 Issued from : G.P. Farran in Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929, Scient. Rep., V, N°3, 1936. [p.94, Fig.8].
Female: a, habitus (dorsal); b, last thoracic segments and urosome (lateral); c, Mx2; d, mxp (setae on terminal segments not shown); e, P1; f, P2; g, endopodite of P3; h, endopodite of P4; i, P5.
Nota: Mx2 with stout toothed spines on the 4th and 5th lobes, terminal setae scoleciform, their ends coalescing in a spongy rounded mass, except the most distal, which is not involved.

Complementary References

Sewell, 1948 (p.418, 553)

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Xanthocalanus squamatus by geographical zones


Localisations

Australia (Great Barrier Reef)

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

Remarks

Depth: 0-180 over 225 m.
Last update : 02/02/2015

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