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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Bomburiella gigas  Fosshagen, Boxshall & Iliffe, 2001   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Epacteriscoidea
Family Epacteriscidae

References

Fosshagen & al., 2001 (p.282, figs.F,M)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : A. Fosshagen, G.A. Boxshall & T.M. Iliffe in Sarsia, 2001, 86 (4/5). [p.283, Fig.22].
Female (from Bahamas): A, habitus (dorsal); B, rostrum (dorsal view); C, urosome and last prosomal somite (left side; D, urosome (dorsal); E, A1; F, A2; G, labrum and labial lobes (ventral); H, Md; I, Mx1; J, Mx2; K, Mxp; L, tip of endopod of Mxp.
Plate 2 issued from : A. Fosshagen, G.A. Boxshall & T.M. Iliffe in Sarsia, 2001, 86 (4/5). [p.285, Fig.23].
Female: A, P1; B, P2; C, P3; D, P4; E, right P5.

Male: F, urosome (dorsal); G, right A1; H, P5 (posterior); I, left P5 (anterior).

Complementary References

Fosshagen & Iliffe, 2004 (p.134)

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Bomburiella gigas by geographical zones


Localisations

Bahamas (Oven Rock cave, Stargate Blue Hole)

Quotations

N: 2

Dimensions (mm)

(836) F: 2,95-3,31; M: 2,82-3,05; {F: 2,95-3,31; M: 2,82-3,05}
Last update : 30/12/2014

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