Atlas of Atlantic Ostracods
Taxon details
Gaussicia subedentata (Gooday, 1976)
- Order:
- MYODOCOPA
- Suborder:
- Halocypridina
- Family:
- Halocyprididae
- Subfamily:
- Conchoecinae
- Size range (females):
- 1.3-1.4 mm
- Size range (males):
- 1.1-1.3 mm
- Depth:
- mesopelagic
Notes
164 Records
This is the smallest member of the genus that was described by Gooday (1976) from the North Atlantic, and only three of its records are from other oceans. I have identified it in a sample collected at Discovery station 2018 on 26th March 1937 at 54°S. So its presence in the Southern Ocean may have gone undetected, where it may have been confused with edentata. In the North Atlantic it was quite abundant in a series of samples collected at 60°N. Its bathymetric profiles show that it is a mesopelagic species that occurs at depths of 400-1000m.
| All | n | Mean mm | s.d. | Range mm |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 14 | 1.23 | 0.041 | 1.16-1.28 |
| Male | 14 | 1.13 | 0.046 | 1.06-1.24 |
| A-1 | 14 | 1.02 | 0.027 | 0.96-1.06 |
| A-2 | 13 | 0.86 | 0.030 | 0.80-0.92 |
| A-3 |
