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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Ridgewayia wilsonae  Fosshagen, 1970   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Epacteriscoidea
Family Ridgewayiidae

Synonymy

Ridgewayia wilsoni Fosshagen,1970 b (p.28, figs.F,M)

References

Humes & Smith, 1974 (p.130, Rem.); Huys & Boxshall, 1991 (p.55, figs.); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.179, figs.F)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : A. Fosshagen in Sarsia, 1970, 44. [p.30, Fig.2].
Female (from Great Guana Cay, Bahamas): A, habitus (dorsal); B, rostrum; C, A2; D, Md; E, Mx1; F, Mx2; G, P1; H, P2; I, P4; J, P5.
Plate 2 issued from : A. Fosshagen in Sarsia, 1970, 44. [p.31, Fig.3].
Male: A, right A1; B, P5 (posterior); C, left exopod of P5.

Copepodids: D, segments 8-10 of A1 (stage V Female); E, P5 (stage V Female); F, left P5 (stage V Male); G, right P5 (stage V Male); terminal spine of exopod broken.
Dotted line in F indicates structure of adult male.
Plate 3 issued from : R. Huys & G.A. Boxshall in Copepod Evolution. The Ray Society, 1991, 159. [p.66, Fig.2.2.13, C].
From Bahamas: 24°01'30''N, 76°21'40''W: C, A2.

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Ridgewayia wilsonae by geographical zones


Localisations

W Atlant. (Bahamas)

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

(512) F: 0,98-0,91; M: 0,96-0,86; {F: 0,91-0,98; M: 0,86-0,96}

Remarks

Bottom living from shallow water.
Last update : 30/01/2015

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