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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Lucicutia curvifurcata  Heptner, 1971   (F)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Family Lucicutiidae

References

Heptner, 1971 (p.127, Descr.F, figs.F); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.132: F)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : M.V. Heptner in Trudy. Inst. Okeanol., 1971, 92. [p.128, Fig.26].
Female (from Kuril-Kamchatka Trench). Pbs I, spine-like on outer margin of basipod of P1.
Plate 2 Lucicutia curvifurcata female: 1 - 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.

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Lucicutia curvifurcata by geographical zones


Localisations

NW Pacif. (Kuril-Kamchatka Trench)

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

Remarks

abyssopelagic (3860-7100 m).
Last update : 16/01/2015

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