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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Cymbasoma nicolettae  Suarez-Morales, 2002   (F)
Taxonomy
Order Monstrilloida
Family Monstrillidae

References

Suarez-Morales, 2002 (p.88, Descr.F, figs.F); Vives & Shmeleva, 2010 (p.163, figs.F, Rem.); Suarez-Morales, 2011 (p.3, fig.F)

Figures

Plate 1 Issued from : E. Suarez-Morales in Mitt. Mus. Nat.kd. Berl, Zool. Reihe, 2002, 1. [p.89, Figs.1-3].
Female (from 43°5'N, 6°0'E): 1-2, habitus (ventral and dorsal, respectively); 3, distal part of ovigerous spines (dorsal view).

Nota: Oral papilla located at about 30% of the way back of the cephalothorax (against 22% in C. thompsoni). The ovigerous spines are slightly shorter in C. nicolettae (37% of total body length) than they are in C. thompsoni (40.5%)
Plate 2 Issued from : E. Suarez-Morales in Mitt. Mus. Nat.kd. Berl, Zool. Reihe, 2002, 1. [p.91, Figs.4-11].
Female: 4, anterior opart of cephalothorax (ventral); 5, left A1 (dorsal); 6, right A1 (dorsal); 7, anterior part of cephalothorax (lateral); 8, P5 (ventral ); 9, P2; 10, P1; 11, outermost exopodal seta of P3 (same pattern as in other swimming legs).
Plate 3 Issued from : E. Suarez-Morales in Mitt. Mus. Nat.kd. Berl, Zool. Reihe, 2002, 1. [p.91].
Female: Armature of swimming legs P1 to P4.
Plate 4 Issued from : Suarez-Morales in Mitt. Mus. Nat.kd. Berl., Zool. Reihe, 2002, 78. [p.95, Table 1].
Comparison of main taxonomic features in species of Cymbasoma with a cephalothorax relative length equal or over 60%, females only: C. nicolettae Suarez-Morales, 2002.
Mouth position way back anterior part of forehead in percentage of the cephalothorax length.
Compare with C. bowmani, C. boxshalli, C. longispinosum, C. morii, C. quintanarooense, C. striatus, C. thompsoni, C. tumorifrons, C. sp. (from Brazil), C. chelemense.

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Cymbasoma nicolettae by geographical zones


Localisations

NW Mediterranean Sea (Toulon Harbour)

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

(876) F: 0,92 (without Furca); { F: 0,92}
Last update : 21/04/2015

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