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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Vettoria longifurca  Rose & Vaissière, 1952   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Cyclopoida
Family Sapphirinidae

Synonymy

Corina longifurca Rose & Vaissière, 1952 (1953) (p.19, Descr.F, figs.F); 1953 (1954) (p.394, Rem.);
Corissa parva : Rose & Vaissière, 1952 (1953 a) (p.175, Rem.)

References

Hure & Scotto di Carlo, 1967 (p.287, 295, Descr.M, figs.M, F, Rem.); Bourcier & al., 1969 (p.272, 273); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.653); Avancini & al., 2006 (p.141, Pl. 109, figs.F,M, Rem.); Vives & Shmeleva, 2010 (p.395, figs.F,M, Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : J. Hure & B. Scotto di Carlo in Pubbl. staz. zool. Napoli, 1967, 35. [p.288, Pl.I].
Male: a, habitus (dorsal); b, idem (lateral right side); c, urosome (dorsal); d, A1; e, A2; f, Md; g, Mx1; h, Mx2; i, Mxp.
Nota: Proportional lengths of urosomites and furca 45:4:11:40. A1 (5-segmented), proportional lengths of segments 16:27:24:15:18.
Plate 2 issued from : J. Hure & B. Scotto di Carlo in Pubbl. staz. zool. Napoli, 1967, 35. [p.289, Pl.II].
Female: a, P1; b, P2; c, P3; d, P4.

Female: e, habitus (dorsal); f, idem (lateral left side); g, urosome (dorsal); h, P1; i, Mxp.
Plate 3 issued from : M. Rose & R. Vaissière in Annls Sci.nat., Zool., (1952) 1953, 11ème ser., 14. [p.19, Pl.III, Figs.16-18]. As Corina longifurca.
Female (Bay of Alger): 16-17, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); 18, urosome (caudal rami missing).
F: caudal ramus; gnsgt: genital segment.
Plate 4 issued from : M. Rose & R. Vaissière in Annls Sci.nat., Zool., (1952) 1953, 11ème ser., 14. [p.21, Pl.III, Figs.19-28]. As Corina longifurca.
Female: 19, A1; 20, A2; 21, Md; 22, Mx1; 23, Mx2; 24, Mxp; 25-28, swimming legs P1 to P4.
c, knife-like segment; b: basipodite; P: mandibular palp.

Complementary References

Apostolopoulou, 1972 (p.329, 380); Deevey & Brooks, 1977 (p.156, tab.2, Station "S"); Kovalev & Shmeleva, 1982 (p.86); Scotto di Carlo & al., 1984 (p.1044); Böttger-Schnack, 1997 (p.409); Hure & Krsinic, 1998 (p.89, 105); Vukanic, 2003 (p.139, tab.1); Mazzocchi & Di Capua, 2010 (p.429); Benedetti & al., 2016 (p.159, Table I, fig.1, functional characters)

Distribution

NZ: 2

Distribution map of Vettoria longifurca by geographical zones


Additional Maps & Charts

Map 3 Chart of 1996

Localisations

NW Atlant. (off Bermuda: Station "S"), Medit. (Alboran Sea, Algiers, W Basin, Ligurian Sea, G. of Napoli, N & S Adriatic Sea, Aegean Sea, Lebanon Basin)

Quotations

N: 11

Dimensions (mm)

(708) F: 1,15; (709) F: 1,22-1,04; M: 1,12-1; {F: 1,04-1,22; M: 1,00-1,12}

Remarks

epi-mesopelagic. Overall Depth Range in Sargasso Sea: 0-500 m (Deevey & Brooks, 1977, Station "S");
Last update : 20/02/2018

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