Pelagic Copepoda
Bradford, J.M. (1971). Pelagic Copepoda, in: The fauna of the Ross Sea: Part 8. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, 59: pp. 9-31
In: (1971). The fauna of the Ross Sea: Part 8. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, 59. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute: Wellington. 9-46 pp., more
In: New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: Wellington. ISSN 0083-7903, more
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New Zealand
Taxonomic status > New taxa > New species
Chiridiella megadactyla Bradford, 1971 [WoRMS]
New Zealand [Marine Regions]
Marine/Coastal |
| Abstract |
Collections of Ross Sea Copepoda from the Transantarctic Expedition 1956-58 and the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute cruise in the summer of 1958-59 were analysed and faunal lists of the area prepared. Eighteen species, not including two obvious strays or contaminants from temperate waters, were added to the Ross Sea fauna. A new species of Chiridiella is described along with males of Aetideopsis antarctica and Haloptilus ocellatus. The males of Ctenocalanus vanus and Racovitzanus aztarcticus are discussed. Although the fauna generally is an extension of the circumpolar Antarctic fauna, yet a region of distinct faunal differences shows in the south-western part of the Ross Sea, where Antarctic Circumpolar Water is absent, where no copepod species associated with Antarctic Circumpolar Water occur and where the two "neritic" species are found. |
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