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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Paraeuchaeta vervoorti  Park, 1978   (F1)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Clausocalanoidea
Family Euchaetidae

Synonymy

Euchaeta vervoorti Park, 1978 (p.238, Descr.F, figs.F)

References

Bradford & al., 1983 (p.23); Park, 1994 (p.322); 1995 (p.70, Rem.F, figs.F); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.880, 926, fig.F)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : T. Park in Antarctic Res. Ser. Washington, 1978, 27. [p.239, Fig. 90]; As Euchaeta vervoorti.
Female: A, forehead (lateral); B, C, D, distal end of metasome and genital segment (left side, right side, and ventral, respectively); E, outer lobe of Mx1; F, P1; G, P2. P1-2: legs (anterior).
Plate 2 issued from : T. Park in Bull. Scripps Inst. Oceanogr. Univ. California, San Diego, 1995, 29. [p.178, Fig.68].
Female: a, forehead (left side); b, urosome (left); c, genital somite (left); d, A2; e, Mx1 (first inner lobe separated), posterior; f, exopod of P1 (posterior); g, exopod of P2 (anterior).

Nota: 2nd lobe of Mx1 with 1 seta; basis with 6 setae; 1st endopodal segment with 6 setae, the innermost of which may be absent; outer lobe with 6 setae, the proximalmost of which relatively small and somewhat variable in size.
Plate 3 Paraeuchaeta vervoorti Female.
1 - See key to species Groups and independent species of Paraeuchaeta (p.30).
2 - In Mx1 endopod, 1st segment with 5 or 6 setae (Fig.68-e).
Plate 4 ssued from : T. Park in Bull. Scripps Inst. Oceanogr. Univ. California, San Diego, 1995, 29. [p.178, Fig.68 e].
Female: Mx1 endopod (1st segment arrowed)

Distribution

NZ: 6

Distribution map of Paraeuchaeta vervoorti by geographical zones


Localisations

SE Atlant., off coast of central Japan, Tasman Sea, off California, Juan Fernandez Is., off Chile

Type locality: between 34°00'S, 80°36'W and 34°11'S, 80°46'W.

Quotations

N: 2

Dimensions (mm)

(3) F: 10,8-8,3; (20) F: 9,5-10,5; {F: 8,30-10,80}
Last update : 27/01/2015

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