Boroecia maxima (Brady & Norman 1896)
- Dataset
- A revision of the genus Boroecia Poulsen 1973 (Ostracoda, Halocypridae) with the descriptions of three new species
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Ostracoda
- order
- Halocyprida
- family
- Halocyprididae
- genus
- Boroecia
- species
- Boroecia maxima
description
(Figures 7 – 9) Since Chavtur et al. (2015) have recently published a full and detailed description of this species, we are only providing a set of comparable drawings (of specimens collected in the Norwegian Sea at 65 ° N 20 ° W), and meristic data. Table 1 compiles length data for the juvenile instars from three localities, 65 ° N 20 ° W (sampled throughout a year), in the vicinity of Svalbard at 77 ° to 82.5 ° N, and over the Canadian Deep in the vicinity of 75 ° N 161 ° W. It was the dominant halocyprid species at all three localities; these length data are remarkably consistent. However, Chavtur et al. (2015) reported finding a few smaller specimens, which had lengths that are consistent with the sizes we provide for B. hopcrofti below. These length data show there are no significant size differences across quite a broad latitudinal range, nor were any suggestions of there being seasonal variations evident in the data from 65 ° N 20 ° W, although the data are insufficient for rigorous statistical evaluation.