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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Cymbasoma leighrandalli  Suarez-Morales & McKinnon, 2016   (M)
Taxonomy
Order Monstrilloida
Family Monstrillidae

References

Suarez-Morales & McKinnon, 2016 (p.100, Descr. M, figs. M, Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 Issued from : E. Suarez-Morales & A.D. McKinnon in Zootaxa, 2016, 4102. [p.101, Fig.58].
Male (from 19°16.500'S, 146°48.500'E): A-B, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); C, cephalic region (dorsal); D, same (ventral); E, urosome and genital complex (ventral).
Scale bars: A, B = 200 µm; C-E = 100 µm.

Nota: cephalothorax representing 44 % of total body length.
- Midventral oral papilla weakly developed located at 22 % of cephalothorax length.
- Pair of large ocelli, moderately developed; pigment cups relatively large. Ocelli separated by the length of less than half an eye diameter, faintly pigmented. Ventral ocellus as large as lateral cups.
- No ventral sensilla between antennulary bases.
Plate 2 Issued from : E. Suarez-Morales & A.D. McKinnon in Zootaxa, 2016, 4102. [p.102, Fig.59].
Male: A, left A1 (dorsal); B, detail of corrugate field on frontal area of cephalic region (arrows), lateral view; C, urosomites and genital complex (lateral); D, P2 with intercoxal sclerite; E, P3 with intercoxal sclerite.
Scale bars: A, C-E = 100 µm; B = 50 µm.
Plate 3 Issued from : E. Suarez-Morales & A.D. McKinnon in Zootaxa, 2016, 4102. [p.103].
Male: Armature formula of swimming legs P1 to P4.

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Cymbasoma leighrandalli by geographical zones


Localisations

E Australia (Ross Creek, Townsville)

Type locality: 19°16.500' S, 146°48.500' E.

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

(1198)* M: 0,66; {M: 0,66}

* Body length measured from the anterior end cephalothorax to the posterior end of the anal somite.
Last update : 04/10/2016

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