Casanova & Chidgey, 1986

Description
Hooks: 11-13; anterior teeth: 0-4; posterior teeth: 5-11.
Maximum adult body length: 34 mm; tail: 30-35 %.
Body large and firm, opaque; transversal musculature on trunk and tail; head wide; hooks not serrated. Fin bridge present; one pair of medium length lateral fins both on trunk and tail; lateral fins fully rayed, rounded. Collarette long and narrow; gut diverticula absent; eyes absent. Seminal vesicles conical; position of seminal vesicles: separated from posterior fins, touching tail fin. Ovaries short; ova fairly small. Adhesive papillae and adhesive organs absent. Vestibular organs present, two ridges; apical gland cell complex present; neck canals present.

Distribution: bathypelagic.

Remarks: 18 immature specimens at about 3400 m in the Eastern North Atlantic.

Type locality: 43°30'N, 20°W.

Phylum Chaetognatha
Order Aphragmophora
Family Heterokrohniidae
Genus Heterokrohnia
Species furnestinae

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Heterokrohnia furnestinae Casanova & Chidgey, 1987

Sorry, there are no scientific synonyms and common names available for this species

Casanova, J.-P. & Chidgey, K.C., 1987. Une nouvelle espèce d'Heterokrohnia (Chaetognathe) des campagnes du Discovery dans l'Atlantique nord-oriental. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Paris, (4 sér.) 9 (A, 4): 879-885.

Kapp, H., 1991. Archeterokrohnia Casanova, 1986, a junior synonym of Heterokrohnia Ritter-Zahony, 1911 (Chaetognatha), with a review of the species of Heterokrohnia. Helgolander Meeresuntersuchingen, 45: 237-252.

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