The marine fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida: Oncaeidae
Heron, G.A.; Bradford Grieve, J.M. (1995). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida: Oncaeidae. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, 104. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute: Wellington. ISBN 0-478-08350-5. 57 pp.
Part of: New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: Wellington. ISSN 0083-7903, more
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Taxonomic status > New taxa > New species
Oncaea derivata Heron & Bradford-Grieve, 1995 [WoRMS]; Oncaea quadrata Heron & Bradford-Grieve, 1995 [WoRMS]; Oncaea redacta Heron & Bradford-Grieve, 1995 [WoRMS]; Oncaea scottodicarloi Heron & Bradford-Grieve, 1995 [WoRMS]
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- Heron, G.A.
- Bradford Grieve, J.M.
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Eighteen oncaeid species (2 Lubbockia, 15 Oncaea (4 new), 1 Conaea) are recorded from the Southwest Pacific Ocean. These are based on specimens collected from New Zealand waters, the Ross Sea (Antarctica), Gulf of Naples, and the Northeast Pacific. Six of the Southwest Pacific Oncaeidae species also occurred in the Gulf of Naples sample, and three of the Southwest Pacific species were found in 15 samples from the Northeast Pacific. Seven of the Southwest Pacific Oncaea species with a prosomal dorsoposterior projection included O. conifera Giesbrecht, 1891, O. furcula Farran, 1936 (here raised to specific status) and three new species (O. derivata, O. quadrata, and O. redacta). Oncaea media Giesbrecht, 1891, plus a new sibling species (O. scottodicarloi), occurred near New Zealand as well as in the Gulf of Naples sample. Males of twospecies (O. curvata and O. prolata) are described. One small (0.42 mm) female copepod, O. lacinia Heron, English & Damkaer, 1984, from the most southerly Southwest Pacific station, is the most abundant oncaeid species known from the Arctic Ocean. A new combination, Conaea expressa (Gordejeva, 1973), is made although this species has not been taken in the Southwest Pacific. |
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