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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Euchirella grandicornis  Wilson, 1950   (F)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Clausocalanoidea
Family Aetideidae

Synonymy

Euchirella galeata : Giesbrecht, 1892 (part. p.241, Pl.36, fig.22); C. B. Wilson, 1950 (p.221, F pro parte, non Pl.9, fig.89, Pl.23, fig.337 )

References

C. B. Wilson, 1950 (part., p.223, figs.F pro parte: Pl.9, fig.89, non M); Tanaka & Omori, 1969 (p.45, figs.F, Rem.); Bradford & Jillett, 1980 (p.32, Rem.); Vaupel Klein, 1984 a (p.38, Table II: characters, Rem.); Markhaseva, 1996 (p.156, figs.F)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : E.L. Markhaseva in Proc. Zool. Inst. RAN, St. Petersburg, 1996, 268. [p.158, Fig.120].
Female (specimen from the Philippines Sea). Ce: forehead (dorsal, left aand right lateral, respectively; CP4: coxopod of P4.

Nota: Cephalothorax 4.0-4.6 times longer than urosome.
Rostrum small, pointed.
A1 23-segmented, reaching the end of caudal rami.
Exopod of A2 2.6 times longer than endopod; endopodal segment 2 with 6 setae on each lobe.
Gnathobase of Mx1 with 3 setae on posterior surface, and 4 and 2 setae (Tanaka & Omori, 1969, mentioned 3 setae) on 2nd and 3rd internal lobes respectively; protopodite near endopod base with 3 setae; endopod with 4 setae (3 after Tanaka & Omori, 1969); exopod with 11 setae; external lobe with 7-8 setae.
Genital segment nearly as long as wide, asymmetrical, with small projection on back side in posterior half on the left (dorsal and lateral view)
Plate 2 issued from : J.C. von Vaupel Klein in Crustaceana, Supplt 9, Studies on Copepoda, III, 1984. [p.61, Fig.4, c].
Female: c, helmet-shaped crest on forehead (left lateral side).
Plate 3 issued from : C.B. Wilson in Bull. U.S. natn. Mus., 1950, 100, 14 (4). [Pl. 10, Figs.101, 103, 104-105].
Female (from 18°47'S, 89°26'W): 101, habitus (dorsal); 103, idem (lateral); 104,Mx2; 105, Mxp.
Plate 4 issued from : C.B. Wilson in Bull. U.S. natn. Mus., 1950, 100, 14 (4). [Pl. 9, Figs.98-100].
Female: 98, A2; 99, Md; 100, P4.
Plate 5 issued from : O. Tanaka & M. Omori in Publ. Seto mar. Biol. Lab., 1969, XVII, 1. [p.46, Fig.5].
Female (from Pacific): a-b, forehead (dorsal and lateral, respectively); c-d, last thoracic segment and urosome (dorsal and lateral, respectively); e, A2; f, Mx1; g, P1; h, P4; i, lateral spine of the 1st basal segment of P4.
Plate 6 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892, 19 , Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.36, Fig.22]. As Euchirella galeata.
Female: 22, urosome (lateral).
Plate 7 Euchirella grandicornis female:
1 - Genital segment asymmetrical.
2 - Crest present.
3 - Coxopodite of P4 with 1 spine.
4 - Posterior corners of last thoracic segment symmetrical, rounded-rectangular (dorsal and lateral view). Endopodal segment 2 of A2 with 6 setae on each lobe.
5 - Crest low.
Plate 8 issued from : J.C. von Vaupel Klein in Crustaceana, Supplt 9, Studies on Copepoda, III, 1984. [p.66, Fig.7, e].
Euchirella grandicornis e, A2 arrangements of spinules and hairs on the posterior edge of endopodite 2+3 (right appendage of medial view ): ± 10 long spinules distally plus a proximal bundle of more than 10 thin hairs (or: hair-like spinules).
Plate 9 Issued from : J.C. von Vaupel Klein in Crustaceana, (Supplement) 9, 1984. [p.93, Table II ].
Euchirella grandicornis Female: Datamatrix stating observed states of characters from Table I (p.87-90) presently examined; nos. refer to the input nos. used in Table I (see to the family Aetideidae).
Plate 10 Issued from : J.C. von Vaupel Klein in Crustaceana, (Supplement) 9, 1984. [p.94, Table II (cont' d) ].
Euchirella grandicornis Female: Datamatrix stating observed states of characters from Table I (p.87-90) presently examined; nos. refer to the input nos. used in Table I (see to the family Aetideidae).
Plate 11 Issued from : J.C. von Vaupel Klein in Crustaceana, (Supplement) 9, 1984. [p.95, Table II (cont' d) ].
Euchirella grandicornis Female: Datamatrix stating observed states of characters from Table I (p.87-90) presently examined; nos. refer to the input nos. used in Table I (see to the family Aetideidae).

Complementary References

Galbraith, 2009 (pers. comm.)

Distribution

NZ: 4

Distribution map of Euchirella grandicornis by geographical zones


Localisations

Peru - Easter Island, NE Pacif. (tropical), SE Indian (in Chiba & al., 1957 a, p.11), Vancouver Is.

Quotations

N: 7

Dimensions (mm)

(110) F: 6,8-5,97; (137) F: 7; (1257): 6,0-6,7; {F: 5,97-7,00}

Remarks

mesopelagic-?.
The female is often confused with E. galeata.For Vaupel Klein (1984 a, p.39), apart from the general shape, female can only be distinguished from E. galeata by (1) shape of crest and rostrum, (2) shape of the genital somite, (3) shape of the spine on basis 1 of P4, (4) number of spinules on basipodite 2 of Mxp (47, but 28 for E. galeata).
Prior to the actual distinction of these two forms, authors have not always distinguoished between them. This implies that some descriptions may pertain to mixed collections of E. galeata and E. grandicornis (Giesbrecht, 1892 and Wilson, 1950 bear witness of such condition.
Last update : 22/02/2021

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