Oncaea compacta - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Oncaea compacta Heron, 1977 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Order Cyclopoida

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Family Oncaeidae

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Genus Oncaea

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References

List of the studied authors

Heron, 1977 (p.57, Descr.F, figs.F); Heron & al., 1984 (p.456, 467, Descr.M, figs.M)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : G.A. Heron in Antarct. Res. Ser. Washington, 1977, 26. [p.59, Fig.13, j-r].
Female (from SW Pacific-Antarctic area): j, habitus (lateral; scale bar: X); k, posterior of last prosomal segment and urosome (lateral; scale bar: Y); l, urosome (dorsal; scale bar: Y); m, right A2 (scale bar: Y); n, labrum (scale bar: Z); o, left Md (scale bar: Z); p, right Mx1 (scale bar: Z); q, left Mx2 (scale bar: Z); r, right Mxp (scale bar: Y).

Species Oncaea compacta - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 issued from : G.A. Heron in Antarct. Res. Ser. Washington, 1977, 26. [p.61, Fig.14, a-e].
Female: a-d, P1 to P4 (scale bar: Y); e, P5 (scale bar: Z).

Species Oncaea compacta - Plate 3 of morphological figures

Plate 3 issued from : G.A. Heron, T.S. English & D.M. Damkaer in J. Crustacean Biol., 1984, 4 (3). [p.469, Fig.11, E-I].
Male: E, habitus (lateral; scale bar: v); F-G, posterior of last prosomal segment and urosome (lateral and dorsal, respectively; scale bar: w); H, right Mxp (scale bar: x); I, P5 (scale bar: x).

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Razouls & al., 2000 (p.343, tab. 4, Appendix); Nishibe & Ikeda, 2004 (p.931, Tab. 2)

Distribution

NZ: 4

Distribution map of Oncaea compacta by geographical zones

Distribution map of Oncaea compacta for the Zone Antarctic

Localisations

Geographical glossary

Antarct. (SW Pacif.), Arct. (Canadian Basin), NE Japan (Oyashio region)

Quotations

N: 3

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(679) F: 0,6-0,5; (675) F: 0,68-0,52; M: 0,52-0,42; {F: 0,50-0,68; M: 0,42-0,52}

Remarks

bipolar species.
Sampling depth (Antarct.) : 1000-2000 m.
For Heron & al. (1984, p.470), O. compacta resembles O. longiseta Shmeleva, 1969, but O. compacta may be distinguished by an unsegmented P5 in both sexes.

Last update : 26/01/2015

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