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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Parundinella emarginata  Grice & Hulsemann, 1970   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Clausocalanoidea
Family Tharybidae

References

Grice & Hulsemann, 1970 (p.193, Descr.M, figs.M, non female); Grice, 1972 a (p.240, Descr.F, figs.F); Bradford & al., 1983 (p.124); Andronov, 2002 (p.29, figs.F,M); Markhaseva & Renz, 2011 (p.67, Fig.M)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : G.D. Grice in Crustaceana, 1972, 23 (3). [239, Figs.147-149].
Female (from off S Cap Cod): 147, habitus (lateral left side); 148, posterior end of prosome and urosome (lateral left side); 149, P5.

Nota: A1 with segments 8 and 9 fused, 24 and 25 separate; aesthetasks on segments3, 5, 7, 9, 19 and 25. The posterior sides of basipods of P4 with numerous spines.
Plate 2 issued from : V.N. Andronov in Arthropoda Selecta, 2002, 11 (1). [p.29, Figs.98-112].
Female (from Atlantic): 98-99, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); 100, rostrum; 101, genital segment (left lateral side); 102, Mx1; 103, Md; 104-105, Md (cutting edge); 106-108, P2 to P4 (part.); 109, P5.

Male: 110-111, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); 112, P5.
Plate 3 issued from : E.L. Markhaseva & J. Renz in Zootaxa, 2011, 2889. [p.67, C]. Changed and schematized after Andronov (2002).
Male: C, P5 (Nota: right basis in grey).
Plate 4 Issued from : G.D. Grice & K. Hülsemann in Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard., 1970, 139 (4). [p.216-217, Pl. X, Figs.191-210].
Male (from 39°45.2'N, 70°33.8'W): 191-192, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); 193, 5th thoracic segment and genital segment (dorsal); 194, 5th thoracic segment with P5 and urosome (right side); 195, same (left side); 196, rostrum; 197, right A1 (broken short); 198, A2; 199, md palp; 200, Md gnathobase; 201, Mx1; 202, Mx2; 203, Mxp; 204, P1; 205, P2; 206, P3; 207, P4; 208, P5 (anterior view); 209, P5 (posterior view); 210, left P5 (2nd and 3rd segments of exopod).

Nota: - Head and 1st thoracic segment fused, 4th and 5th partially fused.
- Abdomen 5-segmented, anal segment small.
-Rostrum bifurcate, each side bearing a filament.
- Posterolateral corners of cephalothorax symmetrical and emarginate.
- A1 asymmetrical.
- Right A1 with segments 8-10 fused and apparently segments 21 and 22 fused. Left A1 with segments 8-10 only fused. Numerous aesthetascs proximally.
- Endopod of A2 about 1/2 length of exopod.
- Md palp large; gnathobase elongate and bearing 4 large teeth, several needle-like spines and 1 seta.
- Mx1 with 10 spines on 1st inner lobe, 3 setae on 2nd inner lobe, 4 setae on 3rd inner lobe; 4 setae on 2nd basal segment; 7 setae on endopod, 7 setae on exopod, and 7 setae on 1st outer lobe.
- Distal end of Mx2 bearing 3 bulbous and several worm-like sensory setae.
- Mxp with sensory setae on 1st basal segment.
- P1 with 3-segmented exopod and 1-segmented endopod.
- P2 with 3-segmented exopod and 2-segmented endopod.
- P3 and P4 with 3-segmented exopods and endopods.
- Numerous spines on endopod of P3 and basal segments and rami of P4.
- P5 biramous, reaching to end of caudal rami. Right exopod 1-segmented, endopod fused with basal segment. Left exopod 3-segmented, proximal segment with large rounded protuberance; left endopod elongate and 1-segmented.
Plate 5 Issued from : V.N. Andronov in Russian Acad. Sci. P.P. Shirshov Inst. Oceanol. Atlantic Branch, Kaliningrad, 2014. [p.84, Fig.21: 15]. Parundinella emarginata after Andronov, 2003.
Female P5.

Complementary References

Bradford-Grieve, 2004 (p.285)

Distribution

NZ: 3

Distribution map of Parundinella emarginata by geographical zones


Localisations

off Woods Hole, W Canary Is., Namibia.

Type locality: 39°45.2'N, 70°33.8'W.

Quotations

N: 3

Dimensions (mm)

(200) M: 0,86; 0,84; (213) F: 0,86; {F: 0,86; M: 0,84-0,86}

Remarks

hyperbenthic. (1750-1822 m).
The species is closely related to P. manicula. Grice (1972, p.240) points to the male described could actually be the undescribed male of P. manicula Fleminger, 1957.
Last update : 21/04/2016

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