Triconia inflexa - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Triconia inflexa Heron, 1977 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Order Cyclopoida

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Family Oncaeidae

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Genus Triconia

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Synonymy

Oncaea inflexa Heron, 1977 (p.45, figs.F,M); Malt,1983 (p.458, Rem.); Heron & al., 1984 (p.465); Heron & Bradford-Grieve, 1995 (p.15, figs.F,M);
Ref. compl.: Errhif & al., 1997 (p.422); Razouls & al., 2000 (p.343, Appendix)

References

List of the studied authors

Böttger-Schnack, 1999 (p.43, Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : G.A. Heron in Antarct. Res. Ser. Washington, 1977, 26. [p.46, Fig.4, g-i]. As Oncaea inflexa.
Female (from SW Pacific-Subantractic area): g, habitus (lateral, scale bar: X); h, urosome (dorsal; scale bar: Y); i, left A1 (scale bar: Y).

Species Triconia inflexa - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 issued from : G.A. Heron in Antarct. Res. Ser. Washington, 1977, 26. [p.48, Fig.5]. As Oncaea inflexa.
Female: a, right A2 (scale bar: Y); b, labrum (scale bar: Z); c, right Md (scale bar: Z); d, left Mx1 (scale bar: Z); e, left Mx2 (scale bar: Z); f, left Mxp (scale bar: Y); g, P1 (scale bar: Y).

Species Triconia inflexa - Plate 3 of morphological figures

Plate 3 issued from : G.A. Heron in Antarct. Res. Ser. Washington, 1977, 26. [p.49, Fig.6]. As Oncaea inflexa.
Female: a-c, P2 to P4 (scale bar: Y); d, P5 (scale bar: Z).

Male: e, habitus (lateral; scale bar: X).

Species Triconia inflexa - Plate 4 of morphological figures

Plate 4 issued from : G.A. Heron in Antarct. Res. Ser. Washington, 1977, 26. [p.50, Fig.7, a-c]. As Oncaea inflexa.
Male: a, urosome (dorsal; scale bar: Y); b, left Mxp (scale bar: Y); c, P5 (scale bar: Z).

Distribution

NZ: 4

Distribution map of Triconia inflexa by geographical zones

Distribution map of Triconia inflexa for the Zone Indian Ocean

Distribution map of Triconia inflexa for the Zone Antarctic and for the Zone Sub-Antarctic

Localisations

Geographical glossary

Antarct. (Pacif. SW), sub-Antarct. (Indien, Pacif. SW), Indien S (convergence subtropicale), Nouvelle-Zélande

Quotations

N: 3

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(679) F: 1,41-1,31; M: 1,13-1,08; (681) F: 1,37-1,26; M: 1,06-0,98; {F: 1,26-1,41; M: 0,98-1,13}

Remarks

epi-mesopelagic.
Sampling depth (Antarct., sub-Antarct.) : 0-500-1000 m.
Heron & Frost (2000, p.1017) do not agree that the generic definition of Triconia by Böttger-Schnack (1999) is sufficient to justify inclusion of all of the divergent species she assigned to the new genus.

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