Oncaea rimula - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

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Oncaea rimula Heron & Frost, 2000 (F,M)

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List of the studied authors )

Heron & Frost, 2000 (p.1046, figs.F,M, tab.2, 3)

Species Oncaea rimula - Plate 1 of morphological figures

issued from : G.A. Heron & B.W. Frost in Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 2000, 113 (4). [p.1045, Fig.17, D-H].
Female (from NE Pacific): D, habitus (dorsal; scale bar: w); E-F, pediger 4 posterior corner and urosome (dorsal and lateral, respectively; scale bar: x); G, left A1 (scale bar: x); H, left A2 (scale bar: x).
Scale bars: 0.1 mm, see figures 3, 4, 5, 10 of Heron and Frost, 2000 for Oncaea canadensis and Oncaea insolita.

Species Oncaea rimula - Plate 2 of morphological figures

issued from : G.A. Heron & B.W. Frost in Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 2000, 113 (4). [p.1022, Fig.2, F].
Female: P2-P4 endopod terminal ''spine set'' (combination of the lengths, shapes, and position of the three or two terminal spines on the endopods of swimming legs 2-4 , from left to right in figure, for different Oncaea' species).

Nota: endopods of P2 and P3 with lateral spine extending to base of subterminal spine.

Species Oncaea rimula - Plate 3 of morphological figures

issued from : G.A. Heron & B.W. Frost in Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 2000, 113 (4). [p.1047, Fig.18, A-N].
Female (from NE Pacific): A, labrum (scale bar: y); B, left Md (scale bar: y); C, right Mx1 (scale bar: y); D, left Mx2 (scale bar: z); E, left Mxp (scale bar: x); F-I, P1 to P4 (scale bar: x).

Male: J-K, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively; scale bar: t); L, pediger 4 posterior corner and urosome (dorsal and lateral, rsepectively; scale bar: x).
Scale bars: 0.1 mm, see figures 3, 4, 5, 10 of Heron and Frost, 2000 for Oncaea canadensis and Oncaea insolita.

Compl. Ref.:

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List of the studied authors )

Nishibe & Ikeda, 2004 (p.931, Tab. 2, 4, 5)

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Distribution map of Oncaea rimula by geographical zones

Loc:

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Geographical glossary )

NE Japan (Oyashio region), Station 'P' (50°N, 145°W), NE Pacif., Washington inland, Dabob Bay

Lg.:

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References of the authors concerning dimensions )

(848) F: 0,5-0,6; M: 0,44-0,45; { F: 0,50-0,60; M: 0,44-0,45}

Last update : 27/01/2015


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