Scottocalanus investigatoris - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Scottocalanus investigatoris Sewell, 1929 (M)

Taxonomy

Order Calanoida

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Superfamily Clausocalanoidea

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Family Scolecitrichidae

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Genus Scottocalanus

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References

List of the studied authors

Sewell, 1929 (p.187, Descr.M, figs.M); 1948 (p.540, 541: Rem., 552); Silas, 1972 (p.647); Park, 1983 (p.198); Bradford & al., 1983 (p.115)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : R.B.S. Sewell in Mem. Indian Mus., 1929, X. [p.188, Fig.67].
Male (from Laccadive Sea): a, habitus (dorsal); b, A2; c, P1; d, P2; e, P3; j, P5.
Nota: the specimen resembles S. persecans (Giesbrecht), it differs from that species in its much larger size and in the absence of any crest on the head.

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Scottocalanus investigatoris by geographical zones

Distribution map of Scottocalanus investigatoris for the Zone Indian Ocean

Localisations

Geographical glossary

N Indian (SW off Sri Lanka)

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(29) M: 5,5; {M: 5,50}

Remarks

After Tanaka (1961 a, p.150) the male of S. rotundatus differs from S. investigatoris in its small size and in having a small process on the 1st segment of the right P5

Last update : 05/03/2017

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