Family PELTIDIIDAE Claus, 1860

Museums

Regional Maps

• Peltidiidae Sars, G.O. 1904. Copepoda Harpacticoida. Parts V & VI. Harpacticidae (concluded), Peltidiidae, Tegastidae, Porcellidiidae, Idyidae (part). pp. 57-80 in Sars, G.O. (ed.). An Account of the Curstacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen : Bergen Museum Vol. V 489 pp.

  Secondary source:

   Lang, K. 1948. Monographie der Harpacticiden. Lund, Sweden : Håkan Ohlssons Boktrycheri 1682 pp. [426].
• Peltidinae Boeck, A. 1873. Nye Slaegter of Arter af Saltvands-Copepoder. Bulletin of the Mauritius Institute 1872: 35-60 [Date published 1873: dated 1872] [58].

  Secondary source:

   Lang, K. 1948. Monographie der Harpacticiden. Lund, Sweden : Håkan Ohlssons Boktrycheri 1682 pp. [426].
• Peltidiidae Claus, C. 1860. Beiträge zur Kenntis der Entomostraken. Marburg Vol. 1 pp. 1-28. [3].

  Type genus:

   Peltidium Philippi, 1839.

  Secondary source:

   Lang, K. 1948. Monographie der Harpacticiden. Lund, Sweden : Håkan Ohlssons Boktrycheri 1682 pp. [426].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Boeck, A. 1873. Nye Slaegter of Arter af Saltvands-Copepoder. Bulletin of the Mauritius Institute 1872: 35-60 [Date published 1873: dated 1872] [58]
• Sars, G.O. 1904. Copepoda Harpacticoida. Parts V & VI. Harpacticidae (concluded), Peltidiidae, Tegastidae, Porcellidiidae, Idyidae (part). pp. 57-80 in Sars, G.O. (ed.). An Account of the Curstacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen : Bergen Museum Vol. V 489 pp. [61]

Introduction

The authorship of Peltidiidae has been attributed to Sars (1904) by Lang (1948) and Huys et al. (1996). However, it appears that Claus (1860) was the first to use the name Peltidiidae (see Lang 1948: 426) and thus must be recognised as the author of the family.

The family comprises seven genera, according to Bodin (1997); five genera and nine species are listed here for the Australian fauna.

Diagnosis

Body. Distinctive, broad, dorso-ventrally flattened with strongly-developed integument which may be strengthened by antastomosing struts, sometimes forming a conspicuous pattern. P1-bearing somite incorporated into large and more or less flattened cephalothorax. rostrum usually broad, not defined at base. Epimeral plates of free prosomites, and sometimes first urosomite, laterally expanded. Urosome much shorter than prosome; female genital double-somite often backwardly produced and embracing rest of urosome.
Antennule. 5- to 9-segmented in female; haplocer in male.
Antenna. Basis and endopod-1 with 1 abexopodal seta. exopod 1- or 2-segmented.
Mandible. Gnathobase elongate. Basis usually with 3 setae. Rami minute, 1-segmented or exopod absent.
Maxillule. With elongate basis. Distinct exopod and rudiementary endopod each with 3 setae.
Maxilla. Syncoxa with 3 widely separated endites. Endopod a small segment or largely incorporated into allobasis.
Maxilliped. Subchelate. Basis with distal seta modified into spinulose pad.
P1. Exopod prehensile; consisting of 2 elongate segments and 1 small terminal segmentwith variable number of recurved spines (claws) and usually a more slender geniculate spine or seta. Exopod always more strongly-developed than 2- or 3-segmented endopod.
P2-P4. Basis transversely elongated. Rami 3-segmented. Rarely sexually dimorphic.
P5. In both sexes with poorly developed baseoendopod, sometimes fused with elongate exopod.

Females with 1 egg sac. Males with 1 spermatophore.

ID Keys

For a key to world genera see Huys et al. (1996) and Boxshall & Halsey (2004)

Diagnosis References

Boxshall, G.A. & Halsey, S.H. 2004. An Introduction to Copepod Diversity. London : The Ray Society 966 pp. [369]

Huys, R., Gee, J.M., Moore, C.G. & Hamond, R. 1996. Marine and Brackish Water Harpacticoid Copepods. Shrewsbury : Field Studies Council Vol. 1 352 pp. [310]

General References

Bodin, P. 1997. Catalogue of the new marine harpacticoids. pp. 1-304 in Bodin, P. (ed.). Documents de Travail de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Brussels : L'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique 304 pp.

Claus, C. 1860. Beiträge zur Kenntis der Entomostraken. Marburg Vol. 1 pp. 1-28.

Huys, R., Gee, J.M., Moore, C.G. & Hamond, R. 1996. Marine and Brackish Water Harpacticoid Copepods. Shrewsbury : Field Studies Council Vol. 1 352 pp.

Lang, K. 1948. Monographie der Harpacticiden. Lund, Sweden : Håkan Ohlssons Boktrycheri 1682 pp.

Sars, G.O. 1904. Copepoda Harpacticoida. Parts V & VI. Harpacticidae (concluded), Peltidiidae, Tegastidae, Porcellidiidae, Idyidae (part). pp. 57-80 in Sars, G.O. (ed.). An Account of the Curstacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen : Bergen Museum Vol. V 489 pp.

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