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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Macandrewella mera  Farran, 1936   (F)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Clausocalanoidea
Family Scolecitrichidae

References

Farran, 1936 a (p.107, Descr.F, figs.F); Sewell, 1948 (p.418); Gopalakrishnan, 1973 (p.185: Table); Bradford & al., 1983 (p.91)

Figures

Plate 1 Issued from : G.P. Farran in Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929, Scient. Rep., V, N°3, 1936. [p.107, Fig.18].
Female: habitus (dorsal); b, idem (lateral left side); c, last thoracic and genital segments (lateral right side).

Nota: 4th and 5th thoracic segments incompletely separated. Abdominal segments in the proportion 40:17:12:3:15. Genital segment asymmetrical, ventrally with a thumb-like projection. P5 absent
Plate 2 Issued from : T.C. Gopalakrishnan in Handbook Int. Zoopl. Coll., Vol. V, 1973 (IIOE). [p.185: Table].
Morphological characteristics of Macandrewella mera female.

Compare with M. scotti, M. chelipes, M. sewelli, M. asymmetrica, M. joanae, M. agassizi, M. cochinensis.
Plate 3 ssued from : T.C. Gopalakrishnan in Handbook Int. Zoopl. Coll., Vol. V, 1973 (IIOE). [p.186: Table].
Morphological characteristics of Macandrewella mera female.

Compare with M. scotti, M. chelipes, M. sewelli, M. asymmetrica, M. joanae, M. agassizi, M. cochinensis.

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Macandrewella mera by geographical zones


Localisations

Australia (Great Barrier Reef)

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

Remarks

mesopelagic
Last update : 29/10/2015

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