Oithona flemingeri - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Oithona flemingeri Ferrari & Bowman, 1980 (F)

Taxonomy

Order Cyclopoida

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Family Oithonidae

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Genus Oithona

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Synonymy

Paroithona flemingeri Ferrari & Bowman, 1980 (p.22, Descr.F, figs.F); Ferrari & Böttger, 1986 (p.284); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.886, 965, figs.F)

References

List of the studied authors

Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.611: Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : F.D. Ferrari & T.E. Bowman in Smiths. Contr. Zool., 1980, 312. [p.23, Fig.14]. As Paroithona flemingeri.
Female (from Caribbean area): a, habitus (lateral right side); b, urosome (lateral left side); c, urosomal segments 1-2 (dorsal); d, caudal ramus (dorsal); e, A1; f, A2; g, Md; h, Mx1; i, Mx2; j, Mxp; k, P1; l, P2; m, P3; n, P4.
Nota: Prosome/Urosome = 1.2. Head rounded in lateral view. Rostrum absent. Endopodal segments of P4 with internal setae unmodified. P5 with 1 seta. Knob near genital opeming with 1 spine pointing posterodorsally and below this 1 thinner spine.

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Oithona flemingeri by geographical zones

Localisations

Geographical glossary

NW Atlant. (off Venezuela)

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(624) F: 0,45-0,4; {F: 0,40-0,45}

Remarks

epipelagic - ?

Last update : 24/01/2015

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