Puchinia obtusa - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Puchinia obtusa Vyshkvartzeva, 1989 (F)

Taxonomy

Order Calanoida

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Superfamily Clausocalanoidea

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Family Scolecitrichidae

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Genus Puchinia

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References

List of the studied authors

Vyshkvartzeva, 1989 a (p.29, Descr.F, figs.F)

Figures

Plate 1 Issued from : N.V. Vyshkvartseva in Zoolol. Zh., 1969, 68 (4). [p.31, Fig.1].
Female (from 43°52'N, 149°49'E): 1, habitus (lateral); 2, forehead (lateral); 3, rostrum (frontal view); 4-6, last thoracic segments and urosome (right side, left side, ventral, respectively); 7, genital segment and urosomite 2 (ventral); 8, Mx2; 9, P5.

Species Puchinia obtusa - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 Issued from : N.V. Vyshkvartseva in Zoolol. Zh., 1969, 68 (4). [p.32, Fig.2].
Female: 1, A2; 2, Md palp; 3, Mx1; 4, Mxp; 5, P1; 6, P2 (incomplete); 7, P3 (incomplete); 8, P4 (incomplete)

Plate 3 Issued from : V.N. Andronov in Russian Acad. Sci. P.P. Shirshov Inst. Oceanol. Atlantic Branch, Kaliningrad, 2014. [p.84, Fig.21: 14]. Puchinia obtusa after Vyshkvartzeva, 1989 a.
Female P5.

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Puchinia obtusa by geographical zones

Localisations

Geographical glossary

NW Pacif. (Kuril-Kamchatka)

Locality type: 43°52' N, 149°49' E.

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(527) F: 2,95; {F: 2,95}

Remarks

Abyssal, hyperbenthic ?

After Vyshkvartseva (1989 a, p.38) the genus is well distinguished from the other genera of the Scolecitrichidae by its specific posterior angle spines of the cephalothorax, peculiar shape of the rostrum and P5. Sampling depth: 5628 m.

Last update : 04/04/2019

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