Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Metridinidae ( Family )
        Metridia ( Genus )
Metridia gurjanovae  Brodsky, 1950   (F,M)
Ref.:
Brodsky, 1950 (1967) (p.301, figs.F,M, Rem.); Vaupel-Klein, 1970 (p.4, 34, figs.M); Chihara & Murano, 1997 (p.837, tab.6)
Species Metridia gurjanovae - Plate 1 of morphological figuresIssued from : J.C. von Vaupel-Klein in Zool. Verh. Leiden, 1970, 110. [p.30, Fig.13,d-e].
Male: d, P5; e, part of the right P5.


Species Metridia gurjanovae - Plate 2 of morphological figuresIssued 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.301, Fig.207].
Female (from S Bering Sea): S5, P5;

Male: S5, P5.

Compl. Ref.:
Björnberg, 1973 (p.337, 387); Yamaguchi & al., 2002 (p.1007, tab.1)
NZ: 4

Distribution map of Metridia gurjanovae by geographical zones
Loc:
Station Knot, Bering Sea, Station "P" (50°N, 145°W), N & S Chile (in Björnberg, 1973), off Mauritania (in Vives, 1982, p.293)
N: 5
Lg.:
(22) F: 3,45; M: 3; (205) M: 3; {F: 3,45; M: 3,00}
Rem.: Nomen nudum in Epstein, 1949, described by Brodsky (1950).
For Brodsky (1967, p.301) this species differs from the closely similar M. brevicauda Giesbrecht in the 4-segmented P5 of the female, in the much smaller difference in the length of rhe right and left legs of P5 male.
For Vaupel-Klein (1970, p.35) the structure of P5 of the males of the species M. pacifica, gurjanovae and probably also M. asymmetrica is very similar and might be an indication of a closer relationship between these three species.
The geographic distribution of this form is surprising.
Last update : 26/01/2016
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