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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Tortanus (Acutanus) ecornatus  Ohtsuka & Reid, 1998   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Diaptomoidea
Family Tortanidae
Sub-Genus Acutanus

References

Ohtsuka & Reid, 1998 (p.783, figs.F,M)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : S. Ohtsuka & J.W. Reid in J. Crustacean Biol., 1998, 18 (4). [p.784, Fig.5].
Female (from Black River Morass, Jalaica): A, habitus (dorsal); B, A1; C, A1 (1st segment); D, Md (mandibular palp); E, P1 (posterior); F, P2 (anterior); G, P3 (anterior); H, P4 (posterior); I, P5 (right basis and exopod omitted, anterior).
Scale bars in mm.
Nota: Cephalosome without marginal prominences such as those found in T. angularis. P5 similar to that of T. angularis, but different from latter in having terminal segment relatively shorter than in latter, outer spine located at midlength, terminal inner process swollen basally.
Plate 2 issued from : S. Ohtsuka & J.W. Reid in J. Crustacean Biol., 1998, 18 (4). [p.785, Fig.6].
Male: A, habitus (dorsal); B, idem (lateral right side); C, 1st abdominal somite (lateral right side); D, right A1; E, P5 (anterior).
Scale bars in mm.

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Tortanus (Acutanus) ecornatus by geographical zones


Localisations

Jamaica (Black River Morass, Oyster Bay)

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

(762) F: 0,94; M: 0,79; {F: 0,94; M: 0,79}
Last update : 01/02/2015

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