Paracalanidae Giesbrecht, 1893

Bradford-Grieve, Janet M., 2008, Mecynocera clausi I. C. Thompson, 1888 (Copepoda: Calanoida) is a paracalanid, Zootaxa 1852, pp. 59-64 : 60

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.183426

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6233332

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scientific name

Paracalanidae Giesbrecht, 1893
status

 

Paracalanidae Giesbrecht, 1893

Paracalanina Giesbrecht, 1893: 21.

Paracalanidae .- Sars, 1901: 16.- Bradford-Grieve, 1994: 44, 46. Calocalanidae Bernard, 1958: 199 .

Mecynoceridae Andronov, 1973: 1719 –1720.

Diagnosis (emended): Male antennules symmetrically developed, neither of them geniculate; male antenna exopod with short terminal segment without 3 terminal setae; male maxilliped sexually dimorphic, endopod with 3 enlarged plumose setae (2 outer and 1 terminal), inner setae very atrophied; leg 1 endopod of 2-segments, exopod 3-segmented; legs 2–4 exopods and endopods of 3-segments, exopod segment 3 of legs 2–4 with 2 outer border articulated spines; terminal spine on exopod segment 3 of legs 2–4 blade-like, not serrated; female leg 5 uniramous with fused protopodal plate: of 2–4 segments but may be rudimentary or absent; male leg 5 uniramous; male right leg shortest, of 2–5 segments but may be rudimentary; male left leg elongate, slightly prehensile, 5-segmented.

Andronov, V. N. (1973) Taxonomic status of Mecynocera clausi (Copepoda, Calanoida). Zoologichesckii Zhurnal, Moskva, 52, 1719 - 1721. [in Russian with English summary]

Bernard, M. (1958) Revision des Calocalanus (Copepodes Calanoida) avec description d'un genre nouveau et deux especes nouvelles. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France, 83, 185 - 199.

Bradford-Grieve, J. M. (1994) The marine fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic Copepoda: Megacalaniae, Calanidae, Paracalanidae, Mecynoceridae, Eucalanidae, Spinocalanidae, Clausocalanidae. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir, 102, 1 - 160.

Giesbrecht, W. (1893) Systematik und Faunistik der pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der Angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte, Herausgegeben von der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel, 19, 1 - 831.

Sars, G. O. (1901) An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all species. 4. Copepoda, Calanoida. Bergen Museum, Bergen, pp 1 - 28, pls 1 - 16.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Maxillopoda

Order

Calanoida

Family

Paracalanidae