Diagnosis Length female 3.0mm, male 3.35mm. Known only from the west coast of Norway.
Remarks This is one of the fifteen species within the Cypridinidae which are included in the key for completeness sake.
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Crustacea Subclass Ostracoda Order Myodocopida Suborder Myodocopina Family Cypridinidae Subfamily Cypridininae Genus Skogsbergia Species Skogsbergia megalops
Skogsberg, T. 1920. Studies on marine ostracods. Part 1. (Cypridinids, halocyprids and polycopids). Zoologiska Bidrag fran Uppsala supplement 1: 1-784.
Images
S. megalops Habitus 1 (Female, 3.0mm, based on Skogsberg (1920)) S. megalops Habitus 2 (Male, 3.35mm, based on Skogsberg (1920))
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Skogsbergiamegalops (species group: Zooplankton and Micronekton of the North Sea)
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