Metidae, Boeck, 1873

Wells, J. B. J., 2007, An annotated checklist and keys to the species of Copepoda Harpacticoida (Crustacea), Zootaxa 1568 (1), pp. 1-872 : 491

Family Metidae

KG 0 – characters

1. Antenna exopod

spine ­ represented by a plumose spine or seta

absent ­ exopod absent

2. P1 endopod n ­ number of segments

3. P1 Exp­3 n ­ number of setae and/or spines

4. P2 Exp­2, inner edge n ­ number of setae

5. P2 Enp­3 n ­ number of setae

6. P2–P4 Enp­1, inner edge n:n:n ­ number of setae on P2, P3 and P4