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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Disco robustipes  Gordejeva, 1974   (F)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Arietelloidea
Family Discoidae

References

Gordejeva, 1974 a (p.1152, Descr.F, figs.F); Schulz, 1993 (p.203, figs.F); Schulz, 2003 (p.110); Vives & Shmeleva, 2007 (p.281, figs.F, Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : K. Schulz in Mitt. Hamb. Zool. Mus. Inst., 1993, 90. [p.201, Fig.2 L-O].
Female (from Bay of Biscay): L, habitus (dorsal); M, A2; N, Md (mandibular palp); O, Mxp.
Scale bars = 0.100 mm.
Plate 2 issued from : K. Schulz in Mitt. Hamb. Zool. Mus. Inst., 1993, 90. [p.202, Fig.3 A-F].
Female: A, habitus (lateral left side); B, P1; C, P2; D, P3; E, P4; F, P5.
Plate 3 issued from : K.T. Gordejeva in Zool. Zh., 1974, 53 (8). [p.1152, Fig.1, 1-13].
Female (from 40°11'3\"N, 14°52'8\"W): 1-2, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); 3, urosome (dorsal); 4, last thoracic segment and urosome (lateral); 5, A2: 6, Md; 7, Mx2; 8, Mxp; 9-12, P1 to P4: 13, P5.

Distribution

NZ: 2

Distribution map of Disco robustipes by geographical zones


Localisations

Bay of Biscay, Red Sea

Quotations

N: 2

Dimensions (mm)

(365) F: 0,4-0,45; (367) F: 0,48; {F: 0,40-0,48}

Remarks

mesopelagic.
For Schulz (1993, p.203) the specimen from Bay of Biscay shows slight morphological differences from the type by the length of some outer exopodal spines of P1 to P3, also the P5 seems less developed.
Last update : 03/01/2015

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