Bathycalanus eximius Markhaseva 1983 ...

• Main Authors: Bradford-Grieve, Janet M., Blanco-Bercial, Leocadio, Boxshall, Geoffrey A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Maxillopoda; Calanoida; Megacalanidae; Bathycalanus; Bathycalanus eximius; Blanco; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6029193; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6029193

Bathycalanus eximius Markhaseva, 1983 (Fig. 46) Bathycalanus eximius Markhaseva, 1983, pp 197–198, fig. 87. Type locality. Kurile-Kamchatka Trench. Material examined. Dr Elena Markhaseva, Institute of Zoology, St Petersberg, Russia, kindly re-examined the holotype material of this species and has augmented her original description with the following additional observations. Morphological description. As for genus with following specific level features. Female. Total length 11.9 mm. Anterior margin of head in dorsal view with low projection bearing pair of small spine-like processes. In lateral view posterior corners of pedigerous somite 5 symmetrical, rounded, but slightly pointed in dorsal view. Genital double-somite markedly swollen and symmetrical in dorsal view, wider than long, with lateral surfaces ornamented with large spinules. Antennule extending beyond caudal rami by 4–6 segments. Anterior and posterior borders of ancestral segments XVI–XXI smooth. Antenna exopod ancestral segment III with small ... : Published as part of Bradford-Grieve, Janet M., Blanco-Bercial, Leocadio & Boxshall, Geoffrey A., 2017, Revision of Family Megacalanidae (Copepoda: Calanoida), pp. 1-183 in Zootaxa 4229 (1) on page 129, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.293480 ...