Triconia furcula - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Triconia furcula Farran, 1936 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Order Cyclopoida

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Family Oncaeidae

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Genus Triconia

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Synonymy

Oncaea conifera var. furcula Farran, 1936 a (p.127, figs.F: forme b); Bradford, 1972 (part., p.50);
Oncaea conifera : Moulton, 1973 (p.142 & suiv.: 'Long' form);
Oncaea furcula : Heron & Bradford-Grieve, 1995 (p.24, Redescr.F,M, figs.F,M)

References

List of the studied authors

Böttger-Schnack, 1999 (p.43, Rem.); Vives & Shmeleva, 2010 (p.342, figs.F,M, Rem.); Wi & al., 2012 (p.857: Table 3).

Figures

Plate 1 Issued from : G.A. Heron & J.M. Bradford-Grieve in New Zealand Oceanogr. Inst Memoir 104. NIWA, 1995. [p.26, Fig.8]. As Oncaea furcula
Female: a, habitus (lateral); [r]; b, habitus (dorsal) [x]; c, urosome (lateral) [s]; d, urosome (dorsal) [r]; e, left A1 [s]; f, left A2 [v]; g, labrum (ventral) [u]; h, right Md [t]; i, right Mx1 [t]; j, left Mx2 [t]; k, left Mxp [s]; l, P1 [s].
Scales in p.13, Fig.2. Letter in brackets.

Species Triconia furcula - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 Issued from : G.A. Heron & J.M. Bradford-Grieve in New Zealand Oceanogr. Inst Memoir 104. NIWA, 1995. [p.27, Fig.9, a-g]. As Oncaea furcula.
Female: a, P2 [s]; b, P3 [v]; c, P4 [s]; d, 3rd endopod of P4 [s].

Male (from Gulf of Naples): e, habitus (lateral) [r]; f, urosome (dorsal) [r]; g, left Mxp [s].
Scales in p.13, Fig.2. Letter in brackets.

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Nishibe & al., 2009 (p.491, Table 1: seasonal abundance); Böttger-Schnack & Schnack, 2009 (p.131, Table 3, 4, Rem.); Böttger-Schnack & Machida, 2011 (p.111, Table 1, 2, fig.2, DNA sequences, phylogeny); Marques-Rojas & Zoppi de Roa, 2017 (p.495, Table 1).

Distribution

NZ: 3 + 1 doubtful

Distribution map of Triconia furcula by geographical zones

Distribution map of Triconia furcula for the Zone Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea

Localisations

Geographical glossary

NW Atlant. (Bermuda), Bahia de Mochima (Venezuela), Medit. (Strait of Sicily, Ionian Sea, Lebanon Basin); , Australia (Great Barrier), New Zealand, Kaikoura, Indian Ocean (9-32°S), Japan (Tosa Bay, Kuroshio region)

Quotations

N: 7

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(34) F: 1,14-1,18; (681) F: 1,15-1,07; M: 0,94; 0,87; {F: 1,07-1,18; M: 0,87-0,94}

Remarks

Certain identifications under the name of Oncaea conifera may possibly be this species, hence an uncertain geographical distribution.

Last update : 28/12/2017

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