Metacyclops Kiefer 1927
Creators: name: Tang, Danny
name: Knott, Brenton
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Hexanauplia
Cyclopoida
Cyclopidae
Metacyclops

description: Key to females of Australian species of Metacyclops   
 1 Legs 1–4 with spine formula 3.4.4.3 on the distal exopodal segment .................. M. superincidentis Karanovic, 2004   
- Not as above.................................................................................................................................................................. 2  
 2 Legs 1–4 with spine formula 3.4.4.2 on the distal exopodal segment........................................................................... .................................................................................................. M. mortoni Pesce, De Laurentiis & Humphreys, 1996   
- Legs 1–4 with spine formula 3.3.3.3 on the distal exopodal segment.......................................................................... 3  
3 Antenna with exopodal seta; body somites furnished with cuticular pits..................................................................... 4  
- Antenna without exopodal seta; body somites lacking cuticular pits.......................................................................... 6  
 4 First antennulary segment with proximal aesthetasc; spine on free exopodal segment of leg 5 longer than segment... ........................................................................................................................................ M. arnaudi (G. O. Sars, 1908)   
- First antennulary segment without proximal aesthetasc; spine on free exopodal segment of leg 5 considerably shorter than segment.................................................................................................................................................... 5  
 5 Genital double-somite wider than long; antennule relatively long, reaches to posterior margin of cephalothorax....... .................................................................................................................................... M. laurentiisae Karanovic, 2004   
 - Genital double-somite longer than wide; antennule relatively short and compact, reaches to proximal half of cephalothorax .............................................................................................................................. M. pilanus Karanovic, 2004   
 6 Seta VII on caudal ramus about as long as ramus; maxilliped with 3 elements on syncoxa and distal endopodal segment ............................................................................................................................... M. pilbaricus Karanovic, 2004   
 - Seta VII on caudal ramus about twice as long as ramus; maxilliped with 2 elements on syncoxa and distal endopodal segment ......................................................................................................................... M. kimberleyi Karanovic, 2004
description: Published as part of Tang, Danny & Knott, Brenton, 2009, Freshwater cyclopoids and harpacticoids (Crustacea: Copepoda) from the Gnangara Mound region of Western Australia, pp. 1-70 in Zootaxa 2029 on pages 41-42