Redescription of Bradya typica Boeck, 1873 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Ectinosomatidae) with the first description of the male
Abstract Bradyatypica Boeck, 1873 is described from samples collected in the course of a colonisation experiment in Kongsfjorden, Spitsbergen (2003?2005). The male of B. typica, the type-species of the genus is described for the first time. B. typica can be distinguished from its congeners by its ca...
| Published in: | Helgoland Marine Research |
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| Language: | English |
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Springer-Verlag
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/41960 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10152-009-0165-8 |
| Summary: | Abstract Bradyatypica Boeck, 1873 is described from samples collected in the course of a colonisation experiment in Kongsfjorden, Spitsbergen (2003?2005). The male of B. typica, the type-species of the genus is described for the first time. B. typica can be distinguished from its congeners by its caudal rami (1.4 times longer than wide) and by its P5 (exopod longer than wide, inner terminal seta of exopod longest, inner seta of baseoendopod longer than outer one and surface seta rigid and curved). Variability within the species is rather small as only the length of some setae is slightly different. B. cladiofera Lang, 1965, B. congenera Sars, 1920, B. minutiseta Soyer, 1973 and B.pugiochaeta Arlt, 1983 are closely related to B. typica. Some details of the morphology, such as the body ornamentation and the longer hair-like pinnules on the spines of the swimming legs, are very difficult to observe even with maximum magnification. With certainty, B. typica is distributed near the Norwegian coast (Oslo Fjord to Trondheim Fjord), the Swedish coast (Skagerak to Oresund), around Spitsbergen and around the polar islands north of Grinnelland (Canadian Arctic Archipelago near Baffin Bay). Records of B. typica from the Kara Sea (near Novaya Zemlya), near Franz Joseph Land, Iceland, Greenland, the British Isles and from deep waters of the North Sea have to be confirmed. sybille.seifried@uni-oldenburg.de (Seifried, Sybille) Faculty 5, Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, AG Zoosystematics, University of Oldenburg - 26111 - Oldenburg - GERMANY (Seifried, Sybille) DZMB, German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research, Senckenberg Research Institute - Sudstrand 44 - 26382 - Wilhelmshaven - GERMANY (Veit-Kohler, Gritta) GERMANY Registration: 2009-07-01 Received: 2008-08-01 Revised: 2009-03-24 Accepted: 2009-07-01 ePublished: 2009-10-24 |
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