Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Heptonema serratum Poulsen, 1965
Heptonema serrata Poulsen, 1965:329, figs. 109, 110.
HOLOTYPE.—Ovigerous female, Zoological Museum, Copenhagen.
TYPE-LOCALITY.—West coast of Thatch Island, Virgin Islands, West Indies, 25–30 m.
MATERIAL.—No new material.
DISTRIBUTION.—Virgin Islands, 25–30 m.
DIAGNOSIS.—Carapace short with broadly rounded posterior margin; carapace length of adult female 1.11–1.14 mm (2 specimens); posterior of right valve with narrow curved ridge between broad list and edge of valve.
First Antenna: Dorsal margin of 1st antenna with 4 bristles.
Mandible: Dorsal margin of basale without midbristle.
Seventh Limb: Each limb with 6 proximal bristles, 3 on each side.
- bibliographic citation
- Kornicker, Louis S. 1986. "Cylindroleberididae of the Western North Atlantic and the Northern Gulf of Mexico, and Zoogeography of the Myodocopina (Ostracoda)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-139. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.425
