Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Diaptomoidea ( Superfamily )
        Pontellidae ( Family )
            Labidocera ( Genus )
Labidocera dakini  Greenwood, 1978   (F,M)
Syn.: Pontella kröyeri Brady, 1883 (part.);
Labidocera sp. Dakin & Colefax, 1940 (part., p.103, figs.M, no F)
Ref.:
Greenwood, 1978 c (p.539, figs.F,M, Rem.); 1979 (p.99); Bradford-Grieve, 1999 b (p.191, figs.F,M, Rem., figs.184, 194); Mulyadi, 2002, p.76: Rem.)
Species Labidocera dakini - Plate 1 of morphological figuresissued from : J.G. Greenwood inJ. Nat. Hist., 1978, 12. [p.540, Fig.3].
Femùale (from Rainbow Channel, E Australia): a, habitus (dorsal); b, idem (lateral right side); c, head (lateral); d, posterior metasome and urosome, with P5 in situ (lateral right side); e, urosome (dorsal); f, P5; g, Md (masticatory edge).
Nota: 2nd urosomal segment about 0.25 times length of genital segment, without development of dorsal shield. Anal segment small, without spines. Caudal rami asymmetrical, right being the larger.


Species Labidocera dakini - Plate 2 of morphological figuresissued from : J.G. Greenwood inJ. Nat. Hist., 1978, 12. [p.541, Fig.4].
Male: a, habitus (dorsal); b, idem (lateral right side); c, right posterior metasome and urosome (dorsal); d, rostrum; e, posterior metasome and urosome (lateral right side); f, forehead (lateral); g, right P5; h, left P5; i, Md (masticatory edges)j, right A1 (segment 17 and denticulate ridge of 18).

Compl. Ref.:
Othman & al., 1990 (p.561, 564, Table 1)
NZ: 2

Distribution map of Labidocera dakini by geographical zones
Loc:
Australia (Sydney, Moreton Bay, G. of Carpentaria), Arafura Sea, Philippines
N: 5
Lg.:
(465) F: ± 2,44; M: ± 2,2; {F: 2,44; M: 2,2}
Rem.:
After Mulyadi (2002, p.76) this species belongs to the L. kroyeri-group, characterized by a combination of 1-male right A1 with segment 18 armed with a single crescented and denticulated ridge on its anterior margin; 2- male left P5 with the exopodal segment 2 armed distally with 2 blunt lamelliform structures crowned with tubercles; 3- female P5 with endopod with bifurcate termination.
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