Comprehensive Description
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fornecido por Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Propontocypris (Ekpontocypris) mcmurdoensis
ETYMOLOGY.—For McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.
TYPE-SPECIMENS.—Holotype USNM 121159, para-types USNM 121160-121164.
TYPE-LOCALITY.—McMurdo Sound, Antarctica (Station “P,” depth 57 m).
DIAGNOSIS.—Carapace very much inflated and highly arched, nearly subtriangular in lateral view, with greatest height located slightly anterior to mid-length. Juveniles considerably less high relative to length.
MATERIAL.—Twenty-two subfossil specimens, mostly juveniles, from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.
DIMENSIONS.—Specimen USNM 121159: left valve, length 0.81 mm, greatest height 0.46 mm, located 0.38 mm from anterior, thickness 0.20 mm.
Specimen USNM 121160: right valve, length 0.81 mm, greatest height 0.44 mm, located 0.37 mm from anterior, thickness 0.20 mm.
- citação bibliográfica
- Maddocks, Rosalie F. 1969. "Recent ostracodes of the family Pontocyprididae chiefly from the Indian Ocean." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-56. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.7
