Candacia worthingtoni - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Candacia worthingtoni Grice, 1981 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Order Calanoida

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Superfamily Diaptomoidea

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Family Candaciidae

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Genus Candacia

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Synonymy

Paracandacia worthingtoni Grice, 1981 (p.165, figs.F,M); Guangshan & Honglin, 1984 (p.118, tab.); Bradford-Grieve, 1999 b (p.178, figs.F,M, Rem., figs.183,193)

References

List of the studied authors

Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (Rem: p.84)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : G.D. Grice in Bull. Plankton Soc. Jap;, 1981, 28 (2). [p.166, Fig.1]. As Paracandacia worthingtoni.
Female: a, habitus (dorsal); b, urosome (right lateral side); c, urosome (ventral); d, A2; e, masticatory edge of Md; f, Mx1; g, Mx2; h, Mxp; i, P1; j, P2.

Species Candacia worthingtoni - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 issued from : G.D. Grice in Bull. Plankton Soc. Jap;, 1981, 28 (2). [p.167, Fig.2]. As Paracandacia worthingtoni
Female: a, P3; b, P4; c, P5; d, terminal part of left P5; e, terminal part of right P5.

Male: f, habitus (dorsal); g, urosome (dorsal); h, distal end of right A1; i, P5.

Plate 3 issued from : Bradford-Grieve J.M. in The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic Calanoid Copepoda. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, 111, 1999. [p.178, Fig.129]. As Paracandacia worthingtoni.
Female: A, urosome (dorsal); B, idem with spermatophore (right lateral side); C, urosome (ventral, with spermatophore); D, P5.
Nota: The Southwest Pacific female specimens have more elongate points on last thoracic segment, there are some differences in details on genital somite.

Male: E, urosome (dorsal); F, segments 15-21 of right A1; G, P5.

Distribution

NZ: 3

Distribution map of Candacia worthingtoni by geographical zones

Distribution map of Candacia worthingtoni for the Zone China Seas, Vietnam

Localisations

Geographical glossary

China Seas (East China Sea), Pacif. (W equatorial), Australia (Great Barrier), New Calédonia, SE Fidji Is., New Zealand (NW North Island), Kermadec Is.

Quotations

N: 4 (Pacif. W: 4)

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(348) F: 1,78-1,5; M: 1,84-1,7; (909) F: 1,73-2,4; M: 1,78-1,9; {F: 1,50-2,40; M: 1,70-1,90}

The mean female size is 1.853 mm (n = 4; SD = 0.3848), and the mean male size is 1.805 mm (n = 4; SD = 0.0854). The size ratio (male : female) is about 0.97

Remarks

depth ?; epipelagic.
Similar to C. bispinosa but may be distinguished (cf;inBradford-Grieve, 1999, p.178).

Last update : 27/01/2016

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