A revision of the bathyal and abyssal necrophage genus Cyclocaris Stebbing, 1888 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Cyclocaridae) with the addition of two new species from the Atlantic Ocean
Author
Horton, Tammy
tammy.horton@noc.ac.uk
Author
Thurston, Michael H.
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Zootaxa
2014
2014-05-20
3796
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3796.3.6
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Key to the species of
Cyclocaris
1. Head without prominent eye lobe; single pair of eyes or eyes covering whole of head (may fade in alcohol)............... 2
- Head with distinct subtriangular eye lobe; two pairs of eyes present (may fade in alcohol)............................3
2. Eyes covering whole of head; Arctic Ocean, north-west Pacific Ocean, cold water species............ ..
Cyclocaris guilelmi
- Large eye not covering whole of head; Pacific Ocean species...................................
Cyclocaris tahitensis
3. Pereopods 5–7 merus expansion broad, (L/W ratios 1.6, 1.7, 2.2 for P5–7 respectively) (see
Figure 10
: P5–7); Pereopod 6 basis with bevel; basis broadly expanded, subquadrate (see
Figure 10
:P6).................................
Cyclocaris franki
- Pereopods 5–7 merus expansion narrower, (L/W ratios 2.2, 2.8, 2.9 for P5–7) (see figure 6: P5–7); Pereopod 6 basis without bevel; basis expanded, oval (see
Figure 6
:P6)..................................................C
yclocaris
lowryi