New species of Lucicutia and taxonomic status of L. grandis (Copepoda, Calanoida, Lucicutiidae)
Author
Markhaseva, E. L.
Author
Ferrari, Frank D.
text
Journal of Natural History
2005
2005-04-30
39
15
1077
1100
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930400005740
journal article
10.1080/00222930400005740
1464-5262
5214307
Lucicutia wolfendeni
Sewell, 1932
(
Figures 8
,
9
)
Lucicutia wolfendeni
Sewell 1932
, p 289
;
Tanaka 1963
, p 46
–49, Figure 171;
Vervoort 1957
, p 130
–131, Figure 120, 121;
Hulsemann 1966
, p 738
, Figures 50, 51, 73, 78, 102;
Heptner 1971
, p 146
, Figure 30; 1986, p 53–54.
Lucicutia grandis
(
Giesbrecht, 1895
)
:
Wolfenden 1911
, p 315
–316, Figure 58;
Sars 1924
– 25, p 208, Plate 56;
Brodsky 1950
, p 328
–329, Figure 227;
Vervoort 1957
, p 131
; Hernández and Suárez-Moralez 1994, p 169, Figure 89.
Female
Total length
6.5–7.7 mm
. Cephalosome with small triangular or rounded lateral protrusions; sometimes lateral sides are nearly smooth (
Figure 8A
). Rostral rami widely spaced, tapering at tips; tips occasionally convergent (
Figure 8G–I
). Genital double-somite of female with oval-elongate plug (
Figure 8D, E
). Anal somite shorter than two preceding somites together (
Figure 8B, C
), dorsal side only slightly swollen (
Figure 8D, E
). Caudal rami in dorsal view 2.9–3.1 times longer than anal somite and eight times longer than wide (
Figures 8B, C
). Antennule exceeding caudal rami by two to three segments. Medial seta of exopodal segment 2 of P5 attenuate, very thin at tip (
Figure 8J
).
Male
Total length
5.7 mm
. Lateral sides of cephalosome without pointed protrusions (
Figure 9A
). Antennule of 21 articulated segments, segment 18 is the longest (
Figure 9D, E
). First exopodal segment of right P5 as long as or slightly longer than the second exopodal segment. Second endopodal segment without hairs; basipod with medial projection (
Figure 9G
). Basipod of left P5 medial-distally with a moderate projection with marginal teeth; exopodal segment 3 elongate oval-triangular (
Figure 9F
). P5 of males from the north-western Pacific Ocean and Southern Ocean identical in structure.
Remarks
Published size of females:
8.2 mm
(
Sars 1924
); 7.65–8.75 (
Heptner 1986
). Published size of males: 6.0–8.0 (
Brodsky 1950
) and 7.00–
7.50 mm
(
Heptner 1986
). Females of
L. wolfendeni
are distinguished from both
L. grandis
and
L. bradyana
by a shorter anal somite which is not swollen; a large oval-elongate plug of the genital double-somite; the usually smoothly rounded or low-triangular lateral sides of the cephalon and larger sizes; males differ in the structure of left and right basipods and left endopod of P5 as discussed for
L. grandis
(
Figures 2F–K
,
6
, 7, 9F, G), and larger size. One female specimen had asymmetrical caudal rami. In other diagnostic character states, this specimen corresponds to
L. wolfendeni
. A specimen with asymmetrical caudal rami was reported earlier (
Wolfenden 1911
, as
L. grandis
) but correctly considered to be
L. wolfendeni
by
Heptner (1971)
.
Figure 8.
Lucicutia wolfendeni
. Female. (A) Anterior part of cephalosome, dorsal; (B, C) urosome, dorsal; (D–F) urosome, right lateral; (G–I) rostrum, anterior; (J) P5. (A, C, F, I, J) south-eastern Pacific Ocean, Eltanin cruise 10, station 868; (B, D) north-western Pacific Ocean, off Kamchatka,
Severnyi Polyus
station 1; (E, H) south-eastern Pacific Ocean, Eltanin cruise 11, station 911; (G) south-eastern Pacific Ocean, Eltanin cruise 10, station 874. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.
Figure 9.
Lucicutia wolfendeni
. Male. (A) Anterior part of cephalosome, dorsal; (B) posterior corners of prosome and urosome, dorsal; (C) same, left lateral; (D) 15–17 articulated segments of antennule; (E) 18–21 articulated segments of antennule; (F) left P5; (G) right P5. (A–E) South-eastern Pacific Ocean, Eltanin cruise 10, station 868; (F, G) north-western Pacific Ocean, off Kamchatka,
Severnyi Polyus
station 1. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.
Distribution
Lucicutia wolfendeni
is found in all oceans except the Arctic Ocean (
Hulsemann 1966
, p 738
;
Heptner 1986
, Tables 1–3).