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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Comantenna gesinae  Schulz, 2002   (F)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Clausocalanoidea
Family Aetideidae

References

Schulz, 2002 (p.102, Descr.F, figs.F, Rem.); Markhaseva & al., 2017 a (p.29: Table 1)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : K. Schulz in Mitt. hamb. zool. Mus. Inst., 2002, 99. [p.103, Fig.1].
Female: A, habitus (dorsal); B, idem (lateral right side); C, distal part of metasome and urosome (lateral right side); D, anal somite and caudal rami (dorsal); E, A2; F, Md (cutting edge omitted); G, Md (cutting edge of coxa).
All scale lines 0.1 mm.
Nota: 1st pedigerous somite free, 4th and 5th separate except ventrolaterally. genital double-somite with seminal receptacles appearing as slender, digitate tubes directing anterodorsally (in C). A1 (24-segmented) reaching slightly beyond posterior end of 2nd pedigerous somite. Md: endopod small (length about 35% that of exopod), 2-segmented carrying 1 and 5 setae, respectively; exopod 6-segmented, large, with 6 setae.
Plate 2 issued from : K. Schulz in Mitt. hamb. zool. Mus. Inst., 2002, 99. [p.104, Fig.2].
Female: A, A1 (1st to 12th free segments); B, A1 (13th to 24th free segments).C, Mx1 (proximal endite of basis given separately); D, Mx2; E, Mxp.
All scale lines 0.1 mm.
Mxp: syncoxa with a large digitiform aesthetasc on inner distal corner.
Plate 3 issued from : K. Schulz in Mitt. hamb. zool. Mus. Inst., 2002, 99. [p.105, Fig.3].
Female: A, P1 (anterior); B, P2 (posterior); C, P3 (posterior); D, P4 (posterior).
All scale lines 0.1 mm.
Plate 4 Issued from : E.L. Markhaseva, J.M. Bradford-Grieve & J. Renz in Arthropodia Selecta, 2017, 26 (1). [p.29, Table 1].
Selected characters in female.
Compare with other species in Comantenna

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Comantenna gesinae by geographical zones


Localisations

Antarct. (E Weddell Sea)

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

Remarks

hyperbenthic (fonds: 230 m).
Compare the selected characters of the different species in Comantenna females in Markhaseva & al. (2017 a,, Table 1, p.29).
Last update : 21/12/2017

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