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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Hondurella verrucosa  Suarez-Morales & Iliffe, 2007   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Epacteriscoidea
Family Ridgewayiidae

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : E. Suarez-Morales & T.M. Iliffe in J. Crustacean Biol., 2007, 27 (2). [p.341, Fig.2].
Female (from 16°06'11''N, 86°53'47''W): A-B, habitus (lateral and dorsal); C, A1, segments 1-23; D, A1, segments 24-26.
Plate 2 issued from : E. Suarez-Morales & T.M. Iliffe in J. Crustacean Biol., 2007, 27 (2). [p.342, Fig.3].
Female: A, urosome (ventral); B, A2; C, Md; D, Md (gnathal blade); E, Mx2.
Plate 3 issued from : E. Suarez-Morales & T.M. Iliffe in J. Crustacean Biol., 2007, 27 (2). [p.343, Fig.4].
Female: A, Mxp; B, detail of Mxp showing modified setae; C, P1; D, P2; E, P3.
Plate 4 issued from : E. Suarez-Morales & T.M. Iliffe in J. Crustacean Biol., 2007, 27 (2). [p.344, Fig.5].
Female: A, P4; B, P5; C, exopod of P1.

Male: D, habitus (lateral); E, urosome (lateral).
Plate 5 issued from : E. Suarez-Morales & T.M. Iliffe in J. Crustacean Biol., 2007, 27 (2). [p.345, Fig.6].
Female: A, Mx1.

Male: B, right A1, segments 1-19; C, right A1, segments 20-23; D, detail of sgments 8-14 showing spines; E-F, P5 in different position.
Plate 6 issued from : E. Suarez-Morales & T.M. Iliffe in J. Crustacean Biol., 2007, 27 (2). [p.348].
Female: Armature formula of swimming legs female.
Arabic numerals: setae; Roman numerals: spiniform elements.
Plate 7 issued from : E. Suarez-Morales & T.M. Iliffe in J. Crustacean Biol., 2007, 27 (2). [p.346, Fig.7, D].
Female: D, forehead showing rostrum (ventral view).
Plate 8 issued from : E. Suarez-Morales & T.M. Iliffe in J. Crustacean Biol., 2007, 27 (2). [p.346, Fig.7, A-B].
Female: A, genital somite (ventral); B, same, showing position of genital pore.
Plate 9 issued from : E. Suarez-Morales & T.M. Iliffe in J. Crustacean Biol., 2007, 27 (2). [p.346, Fig.7, C].
Female: C, detail of modified maxillipedal setae.
On the 2nd segment, two distalmost setae modified, branched distally, with hollow parts at insertion of distal branches.
Plate 10 issued from : E. Suarez-Morales & T.M. Iliffe in J. Crustacean Biol., 2007, 27 (2). [p.346, Fig.7, E].
Female: E, exopodal segments of P3 showing cuticular tympani.
Plate 11 issued from : E. Suarez-Morales & T.M. Iliffe in J. Crustacean Biol., 2007, 27 (2). [p.347, Fig.8, C-D].
Female: C, detail of of left P5 showing process with wart-covered surface (arrowed); D, same, another view, showing distal rounded process with series of thin lamellae.

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Hondurella verrucosa by geographical zones


Localisations

NW Atlantic (Byrun's Cave, Utila Bay, Honduras)

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

(1074) F: 1,12-1,25; M: 1,10-1,20; {F: 1,12-1,25; M: 1,10-1,20}

Remarks

In karstic cave (with salinity 23 ppt at 6 m)
Last update : 06/01/2015

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