Comprehensive Description
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Oithona neotropica Herbst, 1967
Oithona neotropica Herbst, 1967:96–101, figs. 1–12.
[?] Oithona oligohalina Fonseca and Björnberg, 1977:127–131, figs. 1–4.
MATERIAL.—6 from PN-13-60 and 2 from PN-43-200.
FEMALE.—Length range 0.56–0.64 mm; Pr/Ur-1.3. Head broadly pointed dorsally, laterally distinctly quadrate; rostrum absent (Figure 9a, b). Pg4 with hairs on posterior border. CR length 3 times width. B2Md (Figure 9d) with 2 slightly curved, robust spines bearing tiny spinules; Ri with 5 setae. Ri3P4 distal seta thickened, slightly curved, with flange on distal ½; Ri3P4 proximal seta straight with flange on distal ½ (Figure 9e). Knob near genital opening with a curved spine and below it a smaller straight spine (Figure 9c).
- bibliographic citation
- Ferrari, Frank D. and Bowman, Thomas E. 1980. "Pelagic copepods of the family Oithonidae (Cyclopoida) from the east coasts of Central and South America." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-27. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.312
