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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Tharybis megalodactyla  Andronov, 1976   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Clausocalanoidea
Family Tharybidae

References

Andronov, 1976 (p.1903, figs.F,M, Juv.); Bradford & al., 1983 (p.126); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.881, 935, figs.F,M); Andronov, 2002 (p.53, figs.F,M); Ferrari & Markhaseva, 2005 (p.46: tab.1)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : Andronov V.N. in Zool. Zh., 1976, 55 (12). [p.1904, Fig.1].
Female (from off Angola): 1, habitus (lateral view); 2, P4; 3, P5; 4, Md (pars molaris).

Male: 5, 6, habitus (dorsal, lateral); 7, P5.
Plate 2 issued from : V.N. Andronov in Arthropoda Selecta, 2002, 11 (1). [p.52, Figs.253-264].
Female (from SE Atlantic): 253-254, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); 255, genital segment (left side); 256, urosome (ventral); 257, P5 (normal); 258-259, abnormal P5.

Female (intersex adult): 267-269, P5

Male: 263, P5; 264, left exopod of P5.

Distribution

NZ: 2

Distribution map of Tharybis megalodactyla by geographical zones


Localisations

SE Atlant.(Namibia, Angola), off Morocco-Mauritania

Quotations

N: 2

Dimensions (mm)

(595) F: 1,24; M: 1,06; (881) F: 1,1-1,24; M: 0,86-1,06; {F: 1,1-1,24; M: 0,86-1,06}

Remarks

hyperbenthic (depth: 250-780 m).
Last update : 01/02/2015

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