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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Oncaea tenuimana  Giesbrecht, 1891   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Cyclopoida
Family Oncaeidae

Synonymy

Oncäa tenuimana Giesbrecht, 1891; 1892 (p.591, 603, 774, Descr. F, figs.F)

References

A. Scott, 1909 (p.242, Rem.); Shmeleva, 1979 (p.492, Descr.M, figs.M); Vives & Shmeleva, 2010 (p.309, figs.F,M, Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : A.A. Shmeleva in Zool. Zh., 1979, 58 (4). [p.492, Fig.2].
Male (from Alboran Sea): 1, habitus (dorsal); 2, A2; 3, Mxp; 4-7, P1 to P4.
Plate 2 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.47, Fig.27]. As Oncäa tenuimana.
Female: 27, urosome (dorsal).
Plate 3 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.47, Fig.57]. As Oncäa tenuimana.
Female: 57, Mx2.
Plate 4 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.47, Fig.22]. As Oncäa tenuimana.
Female: 22, Mxp.
Plate 5 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.44, Fig.47]. As Oncäa tenuimana.
Female: 47, endopodite of P2.
St = terminal seta; Se = outer seta.
Plate 6 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.44, Fig.52]. As Oncäa tenuimana.
Female: 52, endopodite of P3.
Plate 7 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.44, Fig.53]. As Oncäa tenuimana.
Female: 53, endopodite of P4.

Complementary References

Sewell, 1948 (p.393); Böttger-Schnack, 1994 (p.277); 1996 (p.1086); Uysal & al., 2002 (p.18, tab.1); Böttger-Schnack & Schnack, 2009 (p.131, Table 3)

Distribution

Localisations

Medit. (Alboran Sea, Balearic Basin, Lebanon Basin), Arabian Sea, Indonesia-Malaysia (Halmahera Sea), Pacif. (E equatorial)

Quotations

N: 7

Dimensions (mm)

(46) F: 0,90-0,95; (683) M: 0,65-0,67; {F: 0,90-0,95; M: 0,65-0,67}

Remarks

Epi-mesopelagic.
Kovalev & Shmeleva (1982, p.85-86) omit to cite the presence of this species in the Mediterranean.
Last update : 27/01/2015

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