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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Boholina purgata  Fosshagen, 1989   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Pseudocyclopoidea
Family Boholinidae

References

Fosshagen & Iliffe, 1989 (p.205, Descr.F,M, figs.F,M); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.76); Boxshall & Jaume, 2012 (p.54: Rem., p.57 Key)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : A. Fosshagen & T.M. Iliffe in Sarsia, 1989, 74. [p.206, Fig.4].
Female (from Bohol, Philippines): A, habitus (lateral); B, urosome (dorsal); C, P4 (distal segment of exopod); D, P5.
Nota: A1 reaches beyond prosome to about the middle of genital segment; segment 22 relatively longer than segment 21 than in B. crassicephala. Midventral margin of 3rd urosomal segment extended into a cleft-like structure similar to that on dorsal side but smaller in size.

Male: E, P5 (posterior); F, left P5 (anterior); G, right P5 (anterior).

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Boholina purgata by geographical zones


Localisations

Philippines : Bohol Is. (San Vicente Cave)

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

(320) F: 0,79-0,73; M: 0,73-0,64; {F: 0,73-0,79; M: 0,64-0,73}

Remarks

Brackish.
Last update : 20/07/2015

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