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Taxonomic description of the male Tortanus (Atortus) murrayi Scott A., 1909 (Copepoda, Calanoida, Tortanidae) from the Great Nicobar Island, Indian Ocean

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Title Taxonomic description of the male Tortanus (Atortus) murrayi Scott A., 1909 (Copepoda, Calanoida, Tortanidae) from the Great Nicobar Island, Indian Ocean
 
Creator Francis, S V
Purushothaman, J
Siddique, A
Bhowal, A
Prasad, H
 
Subject Copepoda
Northeastern Indian Ocean
Taxonomic description
Tortanus
 
Description 307-311
Tortanus (Atortus) murrayi Scott A., 1909 is classified within
the species group named murrayi, under the species complex of
recticauda. The species was originally described by A. Scott based
on five female and two male specimens from St.118 (Celebes
Strait), St.85 (Manipa Strait), and St.213 (Selayar Island),
Indonesia. Later, the species was described from Phillippine waters.
Recent studies have provided new distributional records and
detailed taxonomic descriptions based on female specimens from
the Great Nicobar Subdivision, India. However, for accurate species
identification, descriptions of both male and female specimens are
essential. The species closely resembles T. (A.) scaphus Bowman,
1971, as well as T. (A.) sulawesiensis Mulyadi, Nishida and
Ohtsuka, 2017. This study illustrates the distinguishing
characteristics of the male specimens from its congeners.
 
Date 2024-03-01T04:47:32Z
2024-03-01T04:47:32Z
2024-02
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 2582-6727 (Online); 2582-6506 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63495
https://doi.org/10.56042/ijms.v52i06.8352
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR,India
 
Source IJMS Vol.52(06) [June 2023]