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Taxonomy
Famille
Urocopiidae Humes & Stock, 1972
Ref.:
Humes & Stock, 1972 (p.122, 130); 1973 (p.6); Bowman & Abele, 1982 (p.12); Huys & Boxshall, 1991 (p.291, 412, 421); Razouls, 1993 (p.313); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.17, 694: Def.)
Rem.:
1 G.: Urocopia Sars, 1917.
Figures
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Planche 1
Issued from : G.A. Boxshall & S.H. Halsey in The Ray Society, 2004, N°166, Part II. [p.695, Fig.231].
A, Urocopia singularis male; B, Female Md; C, Male Mxp; D, A2; E, Urocopia deeveyae (as Sinoculosapphirina deeveyae) female; F, Mx1; G, A2; H, Mxp.
Heron & Damkaer, 1996; Boxshall, 1981: E-H.
Issued from : G.A. Boxshall & S.H. Halsey in The Ray Society, 2004, N°166, Part II. [p.695, Fig.231].
A, Urocopia singularis male; B, Female Md; C, Male Mxp; D, A2; E, Urocopia deeveyae (as Sinoculosapphirina deeveyae) female; F, Mx1; G, A2; H, Mxp.
Heron & Damkaer, 1996; Boxshall, 1981: E-H.
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Planche 2
Issued from : G.A. Boxshall & S.H. Halsey in The Ray Society, 2004, N°166, Part II. [p.694].
Armature formula of swimming legs P1 to P4.
Nota: Swimming legs P1 to P4 biramous, with 3-segmented rami; jointed by intercoxal sclerites in legs 1 to 45.
- P5 incorporated into somite, lacking any free segment; represented by 2 setae on small lobe in both sexes.
- P6 represented by genital operculum armed with 3 setae in female; with 2 setae in male.
Issued from : G.A. Boxshall & S.H. Halsey in The Ray Society, 2004, N°166, Part II. [p.694].
Armature formula of swimming legs P1 to P4.
Nota: Swimming legs P1 to P4 biramous, with 3-segmented rami; jointed by intercoxal sclerites in legs 1 to 45.
- P5 incorporated into somite, lacking any free segment; represented by 2 setae on small lobe in both sexes.
- P6 represented by genital operculum armed with 3 setae in female; with 2 setae in male.
Genre
Syn.:
Sapphoncaea Olson, 1949;
Sinoculosapphirina Boxshall, 1981 a (p.310)
Sinoculosapphirina Boxshall, 1981 a (p.310)
Ref.:
Sars, 1917 a (p.9); Humes & Stock,1973 (p.329); Heron & Damkaer, 1986 (p.141, clé spp.); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.694, Clé des espèces)
Rem.:
Formes bathypélagiques. Total: 2 spp.
Remarques sur les dimensions et le sex-ratio
The mean female size is 2.56 mm (n = 3; SD = 0.08359) and the mean male size is 1.17 mm (n = 2). The size ratio (male / female) is 0.56 - 0.46, or approximately 50 %. The sex ratio (female / male) is up to date 2/1 in 2014.