Nudivorax todai - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Species Card of Copepod

Harpacticoida ( Order )	details
Cervinioidea ( Superfamily )	details
Aegisthidae ( Family )	details
Nudivorax ( Genus )	details	List species for this Genus

Nudivorax todai Lee & Huys, 2000 (F,M)

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List of the studied authors )

Lee & Huys, 2000 (p.5, figs.F,M)

Species Nudivorax todai - Plate 1 of morphological figures

issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.7, Fig.2].
Female (from Sagami Bay, SE Hatsushima Island): A, habitus (dorsal); B, idem (lateral; arrow indicating folded membranous integument); C, cephalosome and 1st pediger somite (lateral; in telescoped condition, arrowed).
Scale in microns.
Nota: Prosome 5-segmented, comprising cephalosome and 4 free pediger somites; without surface reticulation; ornamentation consisting of pores and few sensillae, pediger somite 1 without sensillae. Urosome 5-segmented, comprising pediger somite 5, genital double-somite and 3 free abdominal somites; all urosomites with pattern of surface ornamentation consisting of small spinules or denticles dorsally and ventrally. Anal somite with large anal opening; anal operculum vestigial, bordered by tiny spinules anteriorly.

Species Nudivorax todai - Plate 2 of morphological figures

issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.9, Fig.3].
Female: A, A1 (dorsal); B, Md; C, Mxp; D, anterior margin ao segment 3 of A1 (ventral)..
Scale in microns.
Nota: A1 7-segmented, without spinous processes on anterior margin of segment 2

Species Nudivorax todai - Plate 3 of morphological figures

issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.10, Fig.4].
Female. A, A2; B, detail of distal armature of A2 endopod; C, labrum (posterior); D, left paragnath (anterior); E, Mx2.
Scale in microns.
Nota: A2 with indistinctly 3-segmented exopod (armature formula 1-1-1); endopod with 3 lateral and 6 apical elements.

Species Nudivorax todai - Plate 4 of morphological figures

issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.11, Fig.5].
Female. A, P1; B, Mx1; C, P1 endopod (posterior).
Scale in microns.

Species Nudivorax todai - Plate 5 of morphological figures

issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.13, Fig.6].
Female. A, P3 (anterior); B, P2 (anterior; outer basal seta arrowed).
Scale in microns.

Species Nudivorax todai - Plate 6 of morphological figures

issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.14, Fig.7].
Female. A, P4 (anterior)

Male: B, P4 endopod; C, Mx2 (arrow indicating rudimentary seta on posterior surface).
Scale in microns.

Species Nudivorax todai - Plate 7 of morphological figures

issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.15, Fig.8].
Female. A, urosome (ventral); B, idem (lateral); idem (dorsal). E, refion around seta I; F, seta II; G, distal margin of caudal ramus (dorsal); H, distal part of P5 (posterior).

Male: D, P5 (anterior).
Scale in microns.
Nota: Each caudal ramus with 7 setae.

Species Nudivorax todai - Plate 8 of morphological figures

issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.16, Fig.9].

Female: D, A2 exopod.

Male. A, habitus (lateral); B, penultimate and anal somites (dorsal); C, genital field (ventral; minute copulary pore arrowed); D, A2 exopod
Scale in microns.

Species Nudivorax todai - Plate 9 of morphological figures

issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.17, Fig.10].
Male: A, habitus (dorsal); B, anterior area of cephalosome (dorsal); C, genital and 1st abdominal somites (vental; arrw indicating inner vestigial seta); D, Md.
Scale in microns.
Nota: Cephalosome with linear array of pores along anterior margin. P5 indistinctly 2-segmented, basis and exopod 1 partly fused; exopod2 with 2 outer spines, 2 apical spines and 2 inner setae. P6 with 1 vestigial and 2 well developed setae, medial margin with 2 spinular tufts.

Species Nudivorax todai - Plate 10 of morphological figures

issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.19, Fig.11].
Male: A, A1 (dorsal); B, Mx1 (posterior); C, Mxp (membranous inserts marking original segmentation arrowed); D, segments 3-4 of A1 (anterior); E, distal half of segment 5 of A1 (anterior).
Scale in microns.
Nota: A1 9-segmented, geniculation between segments 7 and 8.

Species Nudivorax todai - Plate 11 of morphological figures

issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.20, Fig.12].
Male: A, A2; B, protopod and proximal exopod segment of P2; C, idem of P3; D, idem of P4; E, protopod and endopod of P1 (posterior); F, P1 endopod (posterior)..
Scale in microns.

Species Nudivorax todai - Plate 12 of morphological figures

issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.21, Fig.13, A-B].
Male: A, lateral view of cephalosome showing pores; B, detail of cephalosome pores.
Scale bar in microns: A = 20; B = 5.

Species Nudivorax todai - Plate 13 of morphological figures

issued from : W. Lee & R. Huys in Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 2000, 129. [p.24, Fig.15, A].
Male: A, A1 (anterior view of segments 4-6).
Scale bar in microns = 20.

NZ:

Distribution map of Nudivorax todai by geographical zones

Loc:

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Geographical glossary )

Japan (SE Hatsushima Is.)

Lg.:

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References of the authors concerning dimensions )

(915) F: 1,8; M: 1,5; {F: 1,80; M: 1,50}

Rem.:

epi-hyperbenthic (depths: 942-1306 m).

Last update : 24/01/2015


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