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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Gaidiopsis crassirostris  A. Scott, 1909   (F)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Clausocalanoidea
Family Aetideidae

References

A. Scott, 1909 (p.53, Descr.F, figs.F); Sewell, 1948 (p.553); Bradford & Jillett, 1980 (p.55, 57)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : A. Scott in Siboga-Expedition, 1909, XIX a. [Plate IVII, Figs.12-22].
Female (from Banda Sea): 12, habitus (dorsal); 13, forehead (lateral); 14, last thoracic and genital segments (left side); 15, A2; 16, rostrum; 17, A1; 18, Mx2; 19, Mxp; 20, P1; 21, P2; 22, P3.

Nota: Head and 1st thoracic segment fused, 4th and 5th separate.
Caudal rami nearly twice as long as broad, and are as long the anal segment.
A1 24-segmented, reaching the end of the caudal rami.
1st basopodite segment of P3 and P4 furnished with a number of fine hairs on the inner margin.
P5 absent.

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Gaidiopsis crassirostris by geographical zones


Localisations

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

Remarks

After A. Scott (1909, p.53) the species is easily recognised by its very swollen one-pointed rostrum, and by the complete segmentation of the 4th and 5th thoracic segments.For Vervoort, this species would belong to the genus Aetideopsis. ? Probably Aetideopsis crassirostris
Last update : 06/01/2015

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