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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Monstrilla rebis  Suarez-Morales, 1993   (F)
Taxonomy
Order Monstrilloida
Family Monstrillidae

References

Suarez-Morales, 1993 a (p.349, Descr.F, figs.F); Grygier, 1995 a (p.73); Suarez-Morales & Castellanos-Osorio, 2019 (p.120)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : E. Suarez-Morales in J. Crustacean Biol., 1993, 13 (2). [p.350, Fig.1].
Female (from Bahia de la Ascension, Yucatan): a, habitus (lateral); b, A1 (dorsal); c, urosome (lateral); d, P5.

Nota: Cephalothorax incorporating 1st pedigerous somite 0.45 length of total body. Oral papilla located 0.15 length of cephalothorax from anterior end. Eyes absent. A1 4-segmented, slightly more than 0.25 of total body length. Urosome consisting of 5th pedigerous, genital double somite, and 2 free abdominal somites.
Plate 2 issued from : E. Suarez-Morales in J. Crustacean Biol., 1993, 13 (2). [p.352, Fig.2].
Female: a, urosome (ventral); b, right P2; c, right P4; d, right P3.
Nota: Length ratio of genital double somite and abdominal somites 54.5:23.6:21.8 = 100. Caudal rami 1.5 times longer than wide bearing 4 well-developed setae and 1 small seta.
Plate 3 issued from : E. Suarez-Morales in J. Crustacean Biol., 1993, 13 (2). [p.351].
Female: Armament formula of swimming legs.

Complementary References

Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p.112)

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Monstrilla rebis by geographical zones


Localisations

Mexico (Bahia de la Ascension, Yucatan Peninsula)

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

Remarks

Depth: 1.5 m.
Last update : 24/02/2020

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