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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Tortanus (Atortus) nishidai  Ohtsuka, El-Sherbiny & Ueda, 2000   (M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Diaptomoidea
Family Tortanidae
Sub-Genus Atortus

References

Ohtsuka, El-Sherbiny & Ueda, 2000 (p.6, Descr.M, figs.M); Francis & Bijoy Nandan, 2019 (p.433, Table 5).

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : S. Ohtsuka, M.M. El-Sherbiny & H. Ueda in Crust. Res., 2000, 29. [p.7, Fig.3].
Male (from Gulf of Aden): A, habitus (dorsal); B, urosome and P5 (lateral left side); C, urosomal segmets 1-3 (lateral right side); D, right A1 (terminal part); E, P5 (posterior); F, left P5 (anterior); G, left P5 (terminal part, posterior); H, right P5 (anterior).
Plate 2 Issued from : S.V. Francis & S. Bijoy Nandan in Turkish J. Zool., 2019, 43. [p.435, Table 5].
Differential diagnosis of T. nishidai male. Compare with other species of the subgenus Atortus species from the Indian Ocean.

Morphological characters male:
- Left P5 with subdistal spiniform terminal seta, and right leg coxa produced into the rectangular process, basis bearing rounded, flattened process located at inner distal corner.

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Tortanus (Atortus) nishidai by geographical zones


Localisations

Gulf of Aden (Yemen)

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

(946) M:1,53-1,57; {M: 1,53-1,57}

Remarks

assigned to the "recticauda" group
Last update : 11/02/2020

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