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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Parundinella dakini  Bradford, 1973   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Clausocalanoidea
Family Tharybidae

Synonymy

Scolecithricella sp. Dakin & Colefax, 1940 (p.96, figs.F,M)

References

Bradford, 1973 (p.147, Rem.); Bradford & al., 1983 (p.124, figs.F,M); Andronov, 2002 (p.3, 28); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.211, fig.M)

Figures

Plate 1 Issued from : J.M. Bradford, L. Haakonssen & J.B. Jillett in N Z Oceanogr. Inst. Memoir 90, 1983. [p.127, Fig.78]. From Dakin & Colefax, 1940.
Female (from off Sydney): A, habitus (dorsal); B, posterolateral corner of metasome; C, P5.

Male: D, posterior metasome; E, P5; F, terminal part of left P5.

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Parundinella dakini by geographical zones


Localisations

SE Australia (Sydney)

Quotations

N: 2

Dimensions (mm)

(104) F: ± 1; M: ± 0,8; {F: 1,00; M: 0,80}

Remarks

For Bradfrod & al. (1983, p.124) the form of P5 in both sexes indicates this species belongs to Parundinella, although the swimming legs and mouthparts have not been described.
Last update : 13/04/2015

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