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Huys, R.; Boxshall, G.A.; Lincoln, R.J.. |
The discovery of a new stage in the life cycle of the Tantulocarida is reported. A sexual female, collected from a deep-sea harpacticoid copepod host, was removed from the trunk sac of the preceding tantulus larva. This female is a free-living and nonfeeding stage which presumably mates with the free-swimming adult male previously described. The female comprises a cephalothorax, probably incorporating 2 limbless thoracic somites, 2 free pedigerous trunk somites, and 3 limbless trunk somites. It also possesses paired antennules, the only well-defined cephalic appendages present at any stage in tantulocaridan life history. There is a median genital aperture, the copulatory pore, located ventrally on the cephalothorax at about the level of the incorporated... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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Ano: 1993 |
URL: http://www.vliz.be/nl/open-marien-archief?module=ref&refid=7259 |
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Huys, R.; Boxshall, G.A.; Böttger-Schnack, R.. |
Males of the two known species of Mormonilla Giesbrecht are described in detail for the first time. They have reduced or vestigial mouthparts and are probably non-feeding. Males have a single testis and produce a single spermatophore. Male antennules are geniculate. A system of probable segmental homologies for the antennulary segments is proposed and the supporting evidence for this system discussed. Females carrying egg sacs are reported and figured for the first time. Mormonilla is unusual amongst copepods in producing paired egg sacs from a common medial genital aperture. |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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Ano: 1992 |
URL: http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/266870.pdf |
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