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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Oncaea convexa  Heron, 1977   (F)
Taxonomy
Order Cyclopoida
Family Oncaeidae

References

Heron, 1977 (p.55, Descr.F, figs.F)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : G.A. Heron in Antarct. Res. Ser. Washington, 1977, 26. [p.56, Fig.11, l-o].
Female (SW Pacific-Antarctic): l, habitus (lateral; scale bar: X); m, posterior of last prosomal segment and urosome (lateral; scale bar: Y); n, urosome (dorsal; scale bar: Y); o, right A2 (scale bar: Y).
Plate 2 issued from : G.A. Heron in Antarct. Res. Ser. Washington, 1977, 26. [p.558, Fig.12, a-j].
Female: a, labrum (scale bar: Z); b, left Md (scale bar: Z); c, right Mx1 (scale bar: Z); d, left Mx2 (scale bar: Z); e, right Mxp (scale bar: Y); f-i, P1 to P4 (scale bar: Y); j, P5 (ventral; scale bar: Z).

Complementary References

Hopkins & Torres, 1988 (tab.1); Razouls & al., 2000 (p.343, tab. 2, 5, Appendix); Nishibe & Ikeda, 2004 (p.931, Tab. 2)

Distribution

NZ: 2

Distribution map of Oncaea convexa by geographical zones


Localisations

Antarct. (Weddell Sea: pack-ice, SW Pacif.), NE Japan (Oyashio region)

Quotations

N: 2

Dimensions (mm)

(679) F: 0,72-0,66; {F: 0,66-0,72}

Remarks

bathypelagic.
Sampling depth (Antarct.) : 200 -1000-2000 m.
Last update : 26/01/2015

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