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Rhincalanus cornutus

Dana (1849)

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Taxonomy

Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Maxillopoda
Subclass Copepoda
Order Calanoida
Family Rhincalanidae
Genus Rhincalanus
Species cornutus

Size

  • Female: 2.90-3.80 mm
  • Male: 2.40-3.60 mm

Distinguishing characteristics

  • Distinct form of anterior cephalosome with dorsally visible rostral filaments
  • Form of female P5

Male

  • Not well described
  • P5 with more or less straight end bristle

Female

  • Distinct elongated forehead in shape of arrow with rostral filaments visible dorsally
  • P5 with no setae on segment 1 and 1 seta on segment 2

Distribution

Ecology

References

  • Bradford-Grieve J., 1994. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic calanoid copopoda: Megacalanidae, Calanidae, Paracalanidae, Mecynoceridae, Eucalanidae, Spinocalanidae, Clausocalanidae. New Zealand Oceanographic Memoir 102.
  • Bradford-Grieve, J. M., E. L. Markhaseva, et al. (1999). Copepoda. South Atlantic Zooplankton. D. Boltovskoy. Leiden, The Netherlands, Backhuys Publishers. 1: 869-1098.
  • Dakin, W. J. & Colefax, A. N. 1940. The plankton of the Australian coastal waters off New South Wales, Volume 1, Australasian Medical Publishing Company, Limited.