Lucicutia bicornuta - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Lucicutia bicornuta Wolfenden, 1905 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Order Calanoida

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Family Lucicutiidae

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Genus Lucicutia

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Synonymy

Lucicutia aurita Sars, 1905 c (p.8);
L. bicornis : Sars, 1907 a (p.3);
L. bicornutum : Lee & al., 1971 (p.1151)

References

List of the studied authors

Wolfenden, 1905 a (p.24, Descr.F,M, fig.M); A. Scott, 1909 (p.126, figs.M); Wolfenden, 1911 (p.321, figs.F,M); Sars, 1925 (p.214, figs.M); Sewell, 1932 (p.290); Lysholm & al., 1945 (p.34); Sewell, 1947 (p.173); Brodsky, 1950 (1967) (p.338, figs.F,M, Rem.); Tanaka, 1963 (p.51, figs.F,M); Vervoort, 1965 (p.115, Rem.); Owre & Foyo, 1967 (p.76, figs.F,M); Hülsemann, 1966 (p.707, figs.F); Gardner & Szabo, 1982 (p.356, figs.F,M); Chihara & Murano, 1997 (p.830: tab.5); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.883, 945, figs.F,M); Bradford-Grieve,1999 b (p.95, figs.F,M, Rem., figs.176, 191); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.132: F; p.133: M); Vives & Shmeleva, 2007 (p.350, figs.F,M, Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : O. Tanaka in Publs Seto Mar. Biol. Lab., 1963, XI (1). [p.52, Fig.178].
Female: a, habitus (dorsal); b, last thoracic segment and genital somite (left lateral side); c, P5.
Nota: The urosome segments and furca are in the proportional lengths as 19:8:8:12:53 = 100.

Male: d, P5.

Species Lucicutia bicornuta - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 issued from : J.M. Bradford-Grieve in The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic Calanoid Copepoda. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, 111, 1999. [p.95, Fig.61].
Female (41°47'S, 175°01'E: A, habitus (dorsal); B, genital somite (left lateral side); C, P5.

Male: D, P5. Nota: The P5 males differ slightly from Wolfenden's (1911) figure.

Species Lucicutia bicornuta - Plate 3 of morphological figures

Plate 3 Issued from : G.O. Sars in Résult. Camp. Scient. Prince Albert I, 69, pls.1-127 (1924). [Pl.LVIII, figs.1-3].
Male: 1, habitus (dorsal); 2, forehead (lateral); 3, P5.

Species Lucicutia bicornuta - Plate 4 of morphological figures

Plate 4 issued from : A. Scott in Siboga-Expedition, 1909, XIX a. [Plate XXXIX, Figs.1-11].
Male (from Banda Sea): 1, habitus (dorsal); 2, forehead (lateral); 3, last thoracic and genital segments (left side); 4, rostrum; 5, right A1; 6, left A1; 7, A2; 8, Md; 9, Mx2; 10, Mxp; 11, P5.

Species Lucicutia bicornuta - Plate 5 of morphological figures

Plate 5 issued from : R.N. Wolfenden in Die Marinen Copepoden der Deutschen Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903, 1911. [p.322, Fig.63].
Female: b, posterior part cephalothorax and urosome (lateral).

Male: a, habitus (dorsal); c-d, P5.

Species Lucicutia bicornuta - Plate 6 of morphological figures

Plate 6 issued from : H.B. Owre & M. Foyo in Fauna Caribaea, 1, Crustacea, 1: Copepoda. Copepods of the Florida Current. 1967. [p.76, Fig.491].
Female (from 15°00'N, 67°05'W): 491, P5.

Plate 7 Lucicutia bicornuta female:
1 - Characters following not combined : Prosome about 3 times longer than urosome. Cephalosome with slightly projecting and rounded anterior corners and well developed lateral spinous projections; anal somite about as long as wide; caudal rami 11.7 times longer than wide and bowed outwards at base, leaving elliptical space between rami proximally.
2 - P1 with 3-segmented endopod.
3 - Cephalosome with 2 pairs of spinous projections (1 anterolateral and 1 lateral).
4 - Anterolateral projections strong, directed frontally. Lateral margins of anal somite straight. Caudal rami longer than urosome.

Plate 8 Lucicutia bicornuta male:
1 - P1 with 3-segmented endopod.
2 - Cephalosome with 2 pairs of spinous projections (1 anterolateral and 1 lateral).
3 - Anterolateral projections strong; lateral projections directed posteriorly.

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Wilson, 1942 a (p.192); Sewell, 1948 (p.331, 503, 514, 525, 526, 547, 549, 567); Grice & Hulsemann, 1967 (p.17); 1968 (tab.2); Park, 1970 (p.477); Björnberg, 1973 (p.343, 387); Deevey & Brooks, 1977 (p.256, tab.2, Station "S"); Vives, 1982 (p.293); Lozano Soldevilla & al., 1988 (p.59); Wiebe & al., 1988 (tab.7); Heinrich, 1990 (p.18); Madhupratap & Haridas, 1990 (p.305, fig.3: vertical distribution night/day; fig.7: cluster); Shih & Young, 1995 (p.70); Lapernat, 2000 (tabl.3, 4); Hsiao & al., 2004 (p.326, tab.1); Ikeda & al., 2006 (p.1791,Table 2); Hwang & al., 2007 (p.24); Morales-Ramirez & Suarez-Morales, 2008 (p.520); Galbraith, 2009 (pers. comm.); Medellin-Mora & Navas S., 2010 (p.265, Tab. 2); Takenaka & al., 2012 (p.1669, fig.2, 3, Table 1, bioluminescence)

Distribution

NZ: 16

Distribution map of Lucicutia bicornuta by geographical zones

Distribution map of Lucicutia bicornuta for the Zone Indian Ocean

Distribution map of Lucicutia bicornuta for the Zone China Seas, Vietnam

Additional Maps & Charts

Map 4 Issued from : M. Madhupratap & P. Haridas in J. Plankton Res., 12 (2). [p.310, Fig.3].
Vertical distribution of calanoid copepod (mean +1 SE), abundance No/100 m³. 14- Lucicutia bicornuta.
Night: shaded, day: unshaded.
Samples collected from 6 stations located off Cochin (India), SE Arabian Sea, November 1983, with a Multiple Closing Plankton Net (mesh aperture 300 µm), in vertical hauls at 4 depth intervalls (0-200, 200-400, 400-600, 600-1000 m).

Localisations

Geographical glossary

South Africa, off da Trindade Is., Brazil (NE Cape San Roque), G. of Guinea, off NE Cape Verde Is., off Mauritania, Morocco-Mauritania, Canary Is., off W Azores, Caribbean Sea, Caribbean Colombia, Florida, off Bermuda 'Station "S"), Sargasso Sea, Arabian Sea, Indian, Bay of Bengal, Indonesia-Malaysia, China Seas (East China Sea, South China Sea), Taiwan (S é E), Japan (Suruga Bay, NE), off SE Hokkaido, Pacif. NW & NE (Strait of Queen Charlotte), Guaymas Basin, W Costa Rica, S Kuril Is., Pacif. (SE tropical), S Easter Is., off Juan Fernandez Is., Chile ( N & S ), New Zealand (SW & SE North Island)

Quotations

N: 39

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(1) M: 6,9; (5) M: 8; (10) F: 6,75; M: 6,7; (21) F: 8,4-6,8; M: 7,7-6,9; (22) F: 6,8; (26) F: 7,51; M: 7; (909) F: 7,4-7,5; M: 6,5-7,25; {F: 6,75-8,40; M: 6,50-8,00}

Remarks

Abysso & bathypélagic. Sargasso Sea: 1500-2000 m (Deevey & Brooks, 1977, Station "S");

R. Stephen, 2007 : Data sheets of NIO, Kochi, India (on line).

Last update : 01/12/2025

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