Comprehensive Description
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Euchaeta media Giesbrecht, 1888
In geographical distribution this species almost coincides with, but usually occupies a deeper bathymetrical range than, E. marina. In the Gulf of Mexico and western Caribbean Sea, E. media usually occurs within a depth range of 100 to 1000 m, with a highest concentration between depths of 200 and 500 m, where it is the most common euchaetid species.
According to more than 200 randomly selected specimens for each sex, the female measured 3.60-4.24 mm in body length and 2.48-2.80 mm in prosome length; the male, 3.42-3.74 mm in body length and 2.45-2.66 mm in prosome length.
- bibliographic citation
- Park, Taisoo. 1975. "Calanoid copepods of the family Euchaetidae from the Gulf of Mexico and western Caribbean Sea." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-26. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.196
Habitat
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Known from seamounts and knolls
Stocks, K. 2009. Seamounts Online: an online information system for seamount biology. Version 2009-1. World Wide Web electronic publication.
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Habitat
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Mesopelagic
Census of Marine Zooplankton, 2006. NOAA Ship Ronald H Brown, deployment RHB0603, Sargasso Sea. Peter Wiebe, PI. Identifications by L. Bercial, N. Copley, A. Cornils, L. Devi, H. Hansen, R. Hopcroft, M. Kuriyama, H. Matsuura, D. Lindsay, L. Madin, F. Pagè
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