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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Andromastax cephaloceratus  Lee & Huys, 2000   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Harpacticoida
Superfamily Cervinioidea
Family Aegisthidae

References

Lee & Huys, 2000 (p.53, figs.F,M)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.54, Fig.32].
Female: A, habitus (dorsal; distal A1 segments omitted; arrow indicates position of pore replacing seta I); B, idem (lateral; caudal rami omitted); C, area around seta II of caudal ramus (dorsal); D, distal end of caudal ramus (ventral).
Scales in microns.
Plate 2 issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.55, Fig.33].
Female: A, prosome (dorsal, showing fine details of surface ornamentation); B, urosome (ventral; caudal rami omitted); C, idem (lateral; P5 omitted); D, idem (dorsal); E, right P6.
Scales in microns.
Plate 3 issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.57, Fig.34].
Female: A, A1 (ventral); B, Md; C, right paragnath (anterior); D, Mx2; E, distal margin of A1 segment 3; F, coxal endites of Mx2 with possibly broken element arrowed.
Scales in microns.
Plate 4 issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.58, Fig.35].
Female: A, A2; B, labrum (posterior); C, Mx1 (posterior); D, Mxp..
Scale in microns.
Plate 5 issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.60, Fig.36].
Female: A, P1 (posterior); B, P2 (posterior); C, P2, protopod and proximal endopod segment..
Scale in microns.
Plate 6 issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.61, Fig.37].
Female: A, P3 (anterior); B, P4 (posterior); C, P3, protopod and proximal endopod segment.
Scale in microns.
Plate 7 issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.63, Fig.38].
Male: A, habitus (dorsal; arrow indicating position of pore replacing seta I); B, idem (lateral; distal A1 segments and caudal rami omitted); C, urosome (ventral; left P5 exopod and anal somite omitted); D, idem (dorsal; caudal rami omitted).
Scales in microns.
Plate 8 issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.64, Fig.39].
Male: A, A1 (ventral); B, Md; C, Mx1 (posterior); D, Mx2; E, A1 segment 4 (dorsal); F, Md (mandibular palp viewed from different angle. [arrows in A, C and D marking missing setae].
Nota: Md strongly reduced; gnathobase separated from rest of praecoxa by annulated constriction mandibular palp 2-segmented, distal segment with short, basally fused seta and longer pinnate seta apically.
Scales in microns.
Plate 9 issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.65, Fig.40].
Male: A, P4 (anterior); B, A2; C, Mxp; D, outer distal spine of P4 exopod 3.
Scales in microns.
Plate 10 issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.67, Fig.41].
Male: A, rostrum (dorsal); B, anal somite (dorsal); C, P1 (distal part of endopod omitted); D, A1 segment 4 (dorsal); E, geniculation between A1 segments 7 and 8 (arrow indicating pore on sensory seta); F, segmental boundaries between exopodal segments of P1 (anterior).

Female: G, segmental boundaries between exopodal segments of P1 (anterior); H, surface suture between ancestral middle and distal exopodal segments of P1..
Scales in microns.

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Andromastax cephaloceratus by geographical zones


Localisations

Japan (Okinawa Trough, hydrothermal vent)

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

(915) F: 3,055; M: 2,85; {F: 3,055; M: 2,850}

Remarks

epi-hyperbenthic (depths: 780-823 m).
Last update : 29/12/2014

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