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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Exumella tuberculata  Grahame, 1979   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Epacteriscoidea
Family Ridgewayiidae

References

Grahame, 1979 (p.15, figs.F,M); Suarez-Morales & Iliffe, 2005 (p.420-421: Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : J. Grahame in Crustaceana, 1979, 36 (1). [p.17, Fig.2].
Female (from Jamaica: Kingston harbour): a, habitus (lateral right side); b, idem (dorsal); d, rostrum; e, urosome (dorsal).
Thoracic segment 5 asymmetrical and with 'tubercles'.

Male: c, habitus (dorsal); f, urosome (dorsal)
Plate 2 issued from : J. Grahame in Crustaceana, 1979, 36 (1). [p.18, Fig.3].
Female: a, A1; b, A2; c, Md; d, Mx1; e, Mx2; f, Mxp.
A1 of 25 segments, reaching segment thoracic 4. Endopodite 2 of A2 with 14 setae. Endopodite of Md with 4 setae, exopodite with 5 setae
Plate 3 issued from : J. Grahame in Crustaceana, 1979, 36 (1). [p.19, Fig.4].
Female: a, P1; b, P2; c, P3; d, P4; e, P5.
Nota: Exopodite 1 of P5 without small inner seta.
Plate 4 issued from : J. Grahame in Crustaceana, 1979, 36 (1). [p.20, Fig.5].
Male: a, right A1; b, P5.
Right A1 with 19 segments. Exopodite 2 of right P5 with a slender plumose seta on the distal inner corner.
Plate 5 issued from : D. Jaume & G.A. Boxshall in Sarsia, 1995, 80. [p.103, Fig.8, A-D, F].
Male: A, anal somite and caudal rami (dorsal); B, idem (ventral); C, detail of left exopod segment 2 of P5; D, detail of right exopod segment 2 of P5.
Compare in E. mediterranea and E. polyarthra (Fig.5, C-D; Fig.8, E-F)

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Exumella tuberculata by geographical zones


Localisations

Jamaica (Kingston Harbour)

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

(513) F: 0,78-0,74; M: 0,73; {F: 0,74-0,78; M: 0,73}

Remarks

epi or hyperbenthic.
This species is similar to Exumella polyarthra.
Last update : 05/01/2015

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