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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Rhamphochela carinata  Heron & Damkaer, 1978   (F,M, Juv.)
Taxonomy
Order Cyclopoida
Family Lubbockiidae

Synonymy

Lubbockia carinata Heron & Damkaer, 1978 (p.5, figs.F,M); Razouls & al., 2000 (p.343, tab. 4, Appendix)

References

Huys & Böttger-Schnack, 1996/97 (p.258); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.577)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : G.A. Heron & D.M. Damkaer in Smiths. Contr. Zool., 1978, 267. [Fig.3, p.6]. As Lubbockia carinata

Female: a, habitus (lateral view from left side); b, urosome (dorsal view); c, uropode (dorsal view); d, cephalosome (ventral view; Maxilliped keel darkened).
Scale bars: A (fig. a); C (fig.b); E (figs.c, d). right Mxp.; f, left P1; g, left Mx1; h, right Mx2; i, labrum (ventral view); j, right Md.
Plate 2 issued from : G.A. Heron & D.M. Damkaer in Smiths. Contr. Zool., 1978, 267. [Fig.3, p.6]. As Lubbockia carinata

Female:a, labrum (ventral); b, right Md; c, left Mx1; d, right Mx2; e, right Mxp; f, P1.
Scale bars: F (fig.a), G (figs.b, c, d); E (figs.e, f).
Plate 3 issued from : G.A. Heron & D.M. Damkaer in Smiths. Contr. Zool., 1978, 267. [Fig.3, p.6]. As Lubbockia carinata

Female: a-c, P2 to P4
Scale bar: E (figs.a-c).
Plate 4 issued from : G.A. Heron & D.M. Damkaer in Smiths. Contr. Zool., 1978, 267. [Fig.3, p.6]. As Lubbockia carinata

Male: a, habitus (lateral); b, urosome (ventral); c, left Mxp.

Stage IV: d, habitus (ventral; Mxp keel darkened, A1, escept basal segment, and swimming legs omitted).

Scale bars: A (figsa, d); C (fig.b); E (fig.c).
Plate 5 issued from : Heron G.A. & Damkaer D.M. in Smiths. Contr. Zool., 1978, 267. [p.2, Fig.1]. Scales used in drawing figures. Each bar = 0.1 mm.].

Distribution

NZ: 2

Distribution map of Rhamphochela carinata by geographical zones


Localisations

Antarct. (SW Pacif.), W off Vancouver Is., Station "P" (50°N, 145°W)

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

(674) F: 1,53-1,4; M: 1,41-1,3; {F: 1,40-1,53; M: 1,30-1,41}

Remarks

For Boxshall & Halsey (2004, p.577) this species is distinguished from R. forcipula with P1 lacking inner spine on basis.
Last update : 21/11/2015

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