Plate 1 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.51, Figs.55, 56]. As Corycäus tenuis. Female: 55, habitus (dorsal); 56, idem (lateral).
Plate 2 issued from: M. Dahl in Die Copepoden der Plankton-Expedition. I. Die Corycaeinen. Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung, 1912; [Taf.XI, Figs.19-21]. Female: 19, urosome (dorsal); 20, idem (lateral); 21, habitus (lateral).
Plate 3 issued from: M. Dahl in Die Copepoden der Plankton-Expedition. I. Die Corycaeinen. Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung, 1912; [Taf.XI, Figs.22-24]. Female: 22, A2; 23, P2; 24, P4.
Plate 4 [B & H] Female: Posterior lateral angles of 3rd pedigerous somite produced into acute spinous processes extending posteriorly to about 1/3 length of genital double-somite. Anal somite twice as long as width at base.
[V & S] Female: Posterior points of thoracic segment 3, in dorsal view, not reaching half genital segment.Basipodite 2 of P4 with the 2 setae divergent. Genital segment plus anal segment longer than caudal rami. Basipodite 2 of A2 with 1 tooth on the inner distal margin.
Medit. (Alboran Sea (in Greze & al., 1985), Monaco, G. of Genoa (Brian, 1914 a), Aegean Sea (in Pavlova, 1966), Sri Lanka (in Thompson & Scott, 1903), Flores Sea, off W Galapagos, Australia (New South Wales)
Epiplanktonic. For Boxshall & Halsey (2004, p.491) the subgenus (Dahl, 1912) is considered as full generic status pending phylogenetic revision of the whole family at the generic level.
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