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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Acartia (Acartiura) fancetti  McKinnon, Kimmerer & Benzie, 1992   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Diaptomoidea
Family Acartiidae
Sub-Genus Acartiura

Synonymy

Acartia clausi Giesbrecht,1889 (part.);
Acartia tranteri : Bradford, 1976 (part.); Kimmerer & McKinnon, 1985; 1987 a, b, c; 1989.

References

McKinnon & al.,1992 (p.254, figs.F,M); Bradford-Grieve, 1999 b (p.222, figs.F,M, Rem., figs.187, 195).

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : A.D. McKinnon, W.J. Kimmerer & J.A.H. Benzie in J. Crustacean Biol., 1992, 12 (2). [p.250, Fig.6, c-d].
Female (from Western Bay, Melbourne): d, P5.

Male: c, P5.

Scale bar: 0.100 mm.
Plate 2 issued from : A.D. McKinnon, W.J. Kimmerer & J.A.H. Benzie in J. Crustacean Biol., 1992, 12 (2). [p.255, Fig.10].
Female: a, urosome (dorsal); b, idem (dorsolateral).
Nota: Distinct brown pigment patch at base of maxillae. Last thoracic segment (Th6) with 0-7 dorsal spines (average 4), posteroventral margin of segment without hairs. Mean length : width ratio of genital complex in dorsal view 1.04. Lateral faces of genital complex with rows of denticles on anterior half of segment, never extending on posterior half. Posterodorsal margin of genital complex usually (95% of cases) without denticles. Length : width ratio of caudal rami in dorsal view 2.00.

Male: c, urosome (dorsal).
Nota: Distinct brown pigment patch at base of maxillae. Last thoracic segment (Th6) with 8 dorsal spines (average 4). Length : width ratio of caudal ramus 1.56. Most specimens (81%) with row of denticles onposterodorsal margin of 2nd urosome segment; only 17% with denticles on posterodorsal margin of 3rd urosome segment.

Scale bars: 0.100 mm.

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Acartia (Acartiura) fancetti by geographical zones


Localisations

SE Australia (Westernport Bay & Port Philip Bays).

Quotations

N: 6

Dimensions (mm)

(176) F: 1,08-0,72; M: 0,96-0,75; {F: 0,72-1,08; M: 0,75-0,96}

Remarks

epipelagic.
Last update : 22/09/2014

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