. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. COPEPODS OF THE WOODS HOLE REGION" 185 inner distal corner elongated and plumose. Fifth legs very small, distal segment club-shaped, the three outer setae spiniform; basal segment without inner expansion. Total length, mm. Remarks.—^When alive, and even after preservation in formalin, this species can be recognized by the transverse bands of reddish brown on the dorsal surface. It has not been reported before from our Atlantic coast. Found in fresh, brackish, and salt water. HARPACTICUS CHELIFER (Muller) Figure 125 Cyclops chel
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. COPEPODS OF THE WOODS HOLE REGION" 185 inner distal corner elongated and plumose. Fifth legs very small, distal segment club-shaped, the three outer setae spiniform; basal segment without inner expansion. Total length, mm. Remarks.—^When alive, and even after preservation in formalin, this species can be recognized by the transverse bands of reddish brown on the dorsal surface. It has not been reported before from our Atlantic coast. Found in fresh, brackish, and salt water. HARPACTICUS CHELIFER (Muller) Figure 125 Cyclops chelifer Mulleir, Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, no. 2413, 1776. Harpacticus chelifer Saes, Crustacea of Norway, vol. 5, p. 49, pis. 27, 28, 1904. Occurrence.—At Little Harbor, Woods Hole, amid the eelgrass, September, 1881; in limited numbers in Penzance Pond, Woods Hole; Green Pond, Falmouth; two of the brackish-water ponds on Chappaquiddick Island; Nashaquitsa Pond and Farm Pond, Marthas Vineyard; French Water- ing Place, Naushon Is- land; in surface tow at Menemsha Bight, Marthas Vineyard. Distrihution.—B r i t i s h Isles (Brady) ; Kamchatka (Poppe) ; North Sea (Timm) ; coast of France (Canu) ; Franz Josef Land (T. Scott); Ceylon (A. Scott); Helgoland (C1 a u s) ; Mediterranean (Giesbrecht, Pesta); Bo- husliin (Cleve) ; Arctic Ocean (Mrazek) ; Indian Ocean (Thompson and Scott) ; New Zea- land (Thomson); Jan Mayen (Koelbel) ; Nova Scotia (Wright) ; Gulf of St. Lawrence (A. Scott) ; Chesapeake Bay (Wilson) ; Charlestown Pond, R. I. (Williams); Woods Hole (Sharpe, Fish). Color.—Body a light yellow, fairly opaque, without pigment markings. Female.—Cephalo!horax large and deep, with a conspicuous ros- trum ; epimeral plates of the following segments rounded and closely appressed to the sides of the metasome; urosome less than half the. FicnRE 125.—Harpacticus chelifer: a. Female, dorsal (after Sars) ; 6, male, fifth leg; c, fe- male, fifth leg. Please note that these imag
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