Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Diaptomoidea ( Superfamily )
        Pontellidae ( Family )
            Pontella ( Genus )
Pontella spinipedata  Heinrich, 1989   (F,M)
Ref.:
Heinrich, 1989 (p.132, figs.F,M)
Species Pontella spinipedata - Plate 1 of morphological figuresissued from : A.K. Heinrich in Zool. Zh., 1989, 68 (8). [p.131, Fig.1].
Female (from NW Madagascar): 11, habitus (dorsal); 12, idem (lateral right side); 13, forehead (lateral); 14, rostrum (frontal view); 15, urosome (dorsal); 16, idem (ventral); 17, (lateral right side); 18, idem (lateral left side); 19, left P5; 20, right P5.
Nota: A blade-shaped projection on the right side of the 2nd abdominal segment.

Male: 1, habitus (dorsal); 2, forehead (lateral); 3, rostrum (frontal view); 4, last thoracic segment and urosome (lateral right side); 5, posterior part of last thoracic segment (lateral); 6, A1 (clasping segments); 7, P5; 8, distal segment of left P5; 9-10, structure on claw of right P5.
Nota: right P5 with a three-branching projection with many spines in the proximal end of the chela.
Scale bars in mm: 1.0 (1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 11-13; 0.100 (3, 5, 8-10, 14, 19, 20).

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Pontella spinipedata by geographical zones
Loc:
SW Indian (NW Madagascar)
N: 1
Lg.:
(273) F: 3,7-3,6; M: ± 3,5; {F: 3,60-3,70; M: 3,50}
Last update : 29/01/2015
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