Miraciidae, Dana, 1846

Wells, J. B. J., 2007, An annotated checklist and keys to the species of Copepoda Harpacticoida (Crustacea), Zootaxa 1568 (1), pp. 1-872 : 493

Family Miraciidae

KG 0 – characters

1. Antenna exopod

n ­ number of segments

0 ­ exopod absent

2. P1 endopod n ­ number of segments

3. P4 endopod n ­ number of segments

4. P1 Exp­3 n ­ number of setae and spines

5. P2–P4 Exp­3, outer edge n:n:n ­ number of setae and spines on P2, P3 and P4