Clausocalanus dubius - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Species Card of Copepod

Calanoida ( Order )	details
incertae sedis (Calanoida) ( Family )	details
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Clausocalanus dubius Brodsky, 1950 (M)

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List of the studied authors )

Brodsky, 1950 (1967) (p.120, Descr.M, figs.M); Frost & Fleminger, 1968 (p.82, Rem.); Kos, 1976 (Vol. II, figs.F,M, Rem.); Brodsky & al., 1983 (p.234, figs.M); Morioka, 1972 a (p.314)

Species Clausocalanus dubius - Plate 1 of morphological figures

Issued from : K.A. Brodskii in Calanoida of the Far Eastern Seas and Polar Basin of the USSR. Opred. Fauna SSSR, 1950, 35 (Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 1967) [p.120 , Fig. 41]
Male: habitus (dorsal); R, rostrum (lateral); p, rostrum (frontal view); S1, P1; S3, basipodal segments 1 and 2; S5, P5.
Nota: Head and 1st pediger segment fused, 4th and 5th fused.Rostrum fairly large but without filaments, apically widened and with 2 tubercles. Anal segment very short. A1 of body length, with numerous aesthetascs. Exopod of A2 1.5 times longer than endopod.

Compl. Ref.:

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List of the studied authors )

Galbraith, 2009 (pers. comm.)

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Distribution map of Clausocalanus dubius by geographical zones

Loc:

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Geographical glossary )

NW Pacif., Okhotsk Sea, off SE Hokkaido, Vancouver Is.

Lg.:

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References of the authors concerning dimensions )

(131) M: 1,8; {M: 1,80}

Rem.:

Species doubtful.
For Frost & Flelminger (1968, p.82) the description of this species does not agree with the diagnosis of the genus, and it seems preferable to designate dubius as a species incertae sedis.

Last update : 11/04/2020


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