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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Platycopia sarsi  M.S. Wilson, 1946   ()
Taxonomy
Order Platycopioida
Family Platycopiidae

References

M.S. Wilson, 1946 (p.6, Descr.M, figs.M, Fjuv.5)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : M.S. Wilson in Smithson. misc. Collns, 1946, 106 (9). [p.7, Fig.1, A-G].
Male (from Mount Desert Island, Maine): A, A1; B, Mx1 (masticatory lobe); C, proximal spine of B (enlarged); D, P1; E, endopod of P2; F, P5.
Nota: A1 16-segmented, bearing 12 aesthetascs. P5 with exopod 2 bearing 2 spines; endopod 2 with 4 spines.

Copepodid 5: G, P5.
Plate 2 Both A1 male nongeniculate.
Sexual dimorphism present in P5.
A2 exopod 6-segmented.
Exopod of Md indistinctly 3-segmented.
Mx2 not extremely modified.
Syncoxa of Mxp with 2 setae ......
P1 with 2-segmented exopod and 2-segmented endopod.
Exopod of P2 to P5 having inner setae; P2-P5 with outer spines on 1st exopod segment..... Platycopia...... 3 - 1st and/or 2nd exopod segments of P2-P5 of female having inner setae or spines.....4 - 2nd exopod segment of P5 male with 2 proximal spines along outer margin...... 5 - 3rd endopod segment of male P5 having 4 spines.

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Platycopia sarsi by geographical zones


Additional Maps & Charts

Map 2 Chart of 1996

Localisations

NW Atlant. (tidal pool at Sea Wall, Mount Desert Island, Maine)

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

Last update : 28/01/2015

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