Lucicutia lucida - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Lucicutia lucida Farran, 1908 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Order Calanoida

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Family Lucicutiidae

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Genus Lucicutia

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Synonymy

no Lucicutia lucida : Sars, 1925 (p.219, figs.F,M); Rose, 1933 a (p.194, figs.F,M); ? Mazza, 1962 (p.339); 1966 (p.71); 1967 (p.321, 367, fig.64); Vinogradov, 1968 (1970) (p.268); ? Soenen, 1969 (p.94)

References

List of the studied authors

Farran, 1908 b (p.62, figs.F,M); Jespersen, 1940 (p.52); Tanaka, 1963 (p.43, figs.F,M, Rem.); Hülsemann, 1966 (p.725, figs.F,M); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.883, 945, figs.F,M); Bradford-Grieve,1999 b (p.102, figs.F,M, Rem., figs.177, 191); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.132: F; p.134: M); Vives & Shmeleva, 2007 (p.338, figs.F,M, Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : O. Tanaka in Publs Seto Mar. Biol. Lab., 1963, XI (1). [p.44, Fig.169].
Male: a, habitus (dorsal); b, P1; c, P5 ( blown: 1st basal segment of right leg with a spinous process and a haired protuberance).

Species Lucicutia lucida - 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.104, Fig.68].
Female (from 31°19.5'S, 165°19'E): A, habitus (dorsal); B, P1; C, P5.

Species Lucicutia lucida - Plate 3 of morphological figures

Plate 3 Issued from : K. Hülsemann in Bull. Mar. Sc., 1966, 16 (4). [p.726, Figs.106, 108].
Male (from 5°53'S, 79°57'E & 26°06'S, 64°58'E), : 106, P5; 108, urosome (dorsal)

Species Lucicutia lucida - Plate 4 of morphological figures

Plate 4 issued from : G.P. Farran in Fish. Ire. Sci. Invest., 1906, II [1908]. [Pl. VI, Figs.16-20].
Female (from 54°57'N, 10°51'W): 16, habitus (dorsal); 19, P5; 20, P1.

Male: 17, left A1; 18, urosome (dorsal).

Species Lucicutia lucida - Plate 5 of morphological figures

Plate 5 issued from : G.P. Farran in Fish. Ire. Sci. Invest., 1906, II [1908]. [Pl. III, Fig.22].
Male: 22, P5.

Plate 6 Lucicutia lucida 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 without spinous projections .
4 - Genital double-somite symmetrical (dorsal view).
Anal somite almost as long as caudal ramus.
5 - Anal somite slender.

Plate 7 Lucicutia lucida male:
1 - P1 with 3-segmented endopod.
2 - Cephalosome without lateral projections.
3 - Right A1 reaching at most 2 segments beyond tip of caudal rami.
4 - Caudal rami at most 7 times longer than wide.
5 - Inner margin of basis of right P5 with spiny process.
6 - Anal somite almost as long as caudal rami; A1 reaching to distal end of anal somite.

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

C.B. Wilson, 1950 (p.256); ? V.N. Greze, 1963 a (tabl.2); ? Pavlova, 1966 (p.44); Grice & Hulsemann, 1967 (p.17); Roe, 1972 (p.277, tabl.1, tabl.2); Soenen, 1974 (p.120); Vives & al., 1975 (tab.II); Gaudy, 1975 (p;109, fig.1, respiration); Deevey & Brooks, 1977 (p.256, tab.2, Station "S"); Vives, 1982 (p.293); ? Kovalev & Shmeleva, 1982 (p.84); Roe, 1984 (p.358); ? Pancucci- Papadopoulou & al., 1990 (p.199); Lapernat, 2000 (tabl.3, 4); Holmes, 2001 (p.18); ? Vukanic, 2003 (139, tab.1); Fernandes, 2008 (p.465, Tabl.2); Galbraith, 2009 (pers. comm.); Licandro & Icardi, 2009 (p.17, Table 4); Mazzocchi & Di Capua, 2010 (p.426); Belmonte, 2018 (p.273, Table I: Italian zones)

Distribution

NZ: 13 + 2 doubtful

Distribution map of Lucicutia lucida by geographical zones

Distribution map of Lucicutia lucida for the Zone Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea

Distribution map of Lucicutia lucida for the Zone Indian Ocean

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

Localisations

Geographical glossary

? Namibia, off Mauritania - NW Cape Verde Is., Morocco-Mauritania, Canary Is., off Madeira, Portugal, off W Cape Finisterre, off Bermuda (Station "S"), Sargasso Sea, E, Iceland, off W Ireland, Baie Ibero-moroccan Bay, ? Medit. (NW Basin, Ligurian Sea, Ionian Sea, Adriatic Sea), Indian, Bay of Bengal, Philippines, China Seas (Hong Kong, Taiwan), Japan (Sagami Bay), off British Columbia, off Galapagos, Panama, Chile, New Zealand (off NW North Island)

Quotations

N: 25

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(24) F: 3,5; M: 3,25; (26) M: 3,35; (199) F: 3,65-2,96; M: 3,27-2,96; (909) F: 3,5; {F: 2,96-3,65; M: 2,96-3,50}

Remarks

Bathypelagic. Sargasso Sea: 500-1500 m (Deevey & Brooks, 1977, Station "S");
It is probable that certain identifications, founded on Sars (1925) and Rose (1933 a) modify the above geographic distribution, notably concerning the presence in the Mediterranean Sea (Cf. Lucicutia pera).

Last update : 05/02/2020

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