Famille des Mecynoceridae - Copépodes planctoniques marins

Calanoida ( Ordre )	détails
Calanoidea ( Superfamille )	détails

Abréviations ou symboles

Mecynoceridae Andronov, 1973 ( Calanoidea )
Syn.:	Mecynoceridae : Andronov, 1970 (p.985, Rem.); 1973 b (p.1721); 1974 a (p.1005); Razouls, 1982 (p.101); Bowman & Abele, 1982 (p.10); Brodsky & al., 1983 (p.142, 147, 216); Mauchline, 1988 (p.722: pores cuticulaires); Hiromi, 1987 (p.147, Rem.); Nishida, 1989 (p.174); Bradford-Grieve, 1994 (p.71, Rem.); Chihara & Murano, 1997 (p.833); Barthélémy, 1999 a (p.30); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.878, 902, 905, 911); Ohtsuka & Huys, 2001 (p.461); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.14; 49; 136: Def.); Vives & Shmeleva, 2007 (p.907); Cornils & Blanco-Bercial, 2013, p.861, figs.1, 3, 5, phylogeny, molecular analysis); Ohtsuka & Nishida, 2017 (p.568, Rem. concerning the 3 families Calocalanidae, Mecynoceridae and Paracalanidae). Bradford-Grieve J.M., (2002 onwards). Key to calanoid copepod families. Version 1 : 2 oct 2002. http://www.crustacea.net/crustace/calanoida/index.htm Rem.: 1 G.: Mecynocera.
Ref.:	Bradford-Grieve, 2008 (p.59, Rem.). Bradford-Grieve J.M., (2002 onwards). Key to calanoid copepod families. Version 1 : 2 oct 2002. http://www.crustacea.net/crustace/calanoida/index.htm
Rem.:	1 G.: Mecynocera. Antérieurement placé dans la sous-famille des Eucalaninae par Giesbrecht, 1892 (p.45, 47), des Eucalanidae (Sars, 1902, p.14), des Calocalanidae Bernard, 1958 a (p.199). Placé dans la famille des Paracalanidae par Bradford-Grieve 2008 (p.59) mais non in Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.136). Voir la remarque complétée dans la version anglaise.

Issued from : G.A. Boxshall & S.H. Halsey in An Introduction to Copepod Diversity. The Ray Society, 2004, No 166, Part. I. [p.136]. Armature formula of swimming legs P1 to P4. Nota: Female P5 comprising 2-segmented protopod and 3-segmented exopod; 2nd exopodal segment armed with inner seta; distal exopodal segment bearing 1 to 6 setation elements around apex and inner margin (according to different descriptions). -Male P5 asymmetrical, both uniramous and 5-segmented; coxa fused to intercoxal sclerite; basis free, unarmed; exopod 3-segmented, distal segment armed with 2 apical spines, 1 large and 1 small; legt leg longer than right. - Eggs released into water.
Issued from : G.A. Boxshall & S.H. Halsey in An Introduction to Copepod Diversity. The Ray Society, 2004, No 166, Part. I. [p.137, Fig.28]. Mecynoceridae. A, Mecynocera clausii habitus female; B, female P5; C, Mxp; D, habitus male; E, male P5. [Giesbrecht, 1893a (1892): A-C; Brodsky & al., 1983: D-E].