Species Card of Copepod
Cyclopoida ( Order )
    Oithonidae ( Family )
        Oithona ( Genus )
Oithona frigida  Giesbrecht, 1902   (F,M)
Syn.: no Oithona frigida var. pseudofrigida Rosendorn, 1917 a (p.19, figs.F,M); Owre & Foyo, 1967 (p.107, figs.F); Wellershaus, 1970 (p.482, Rem.F);
no O. frigida : Razouls & Durand, 1991 (p.75)
Ref.:
Giesbrecht, 1902 (p.29, Descr.F, figs.F); Wolfenden, 1911 (p.363); Rosendorn, 1917 a (p.16, figs.F,M); Brady, 1918 (p.28, figs.F); Kiefer, 1929 g (p.6, Rem.F,M); Farran, 1929 (p.210, 283); Hardy & Gunther, 1935 (p.185); Vervoort, 1951 (p.149, Rem.); 1957 (p.145, Rem.); Tanaka, 1960 (p.58, figs.F); Wellershaus, 1970 (p.480, 481, Rem.F); Bradford, 1971 b (p.28, Rem.); Shuvalov, 1980 (p.104, figs.F,M, Rem.M); Björnberg & al., 1981 (p.663, 665, figs.F, Rem.); Nishida, 1985 a (p.45, 48, Redescr.F, figs.F, Rem., p.133); Razouls, 1995 (p.182, figs.F,M); Menshenina & Melnikov, 1995 (p.129); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.886, 966, figs.F)
Species Oithona frigida - Plate 1 of morphological figuresIssued from : S. Nishida in Bull. Ocean Res. Inst., Univ. Tokyo, 1985, No 20. [p.47, Fig.22].
Female (S Indian Ocean): a, thoracic segment 5 and genital segment partial (lateral right side); b, P5; c, anal segment and caudal rami (dorsal); d, idem (ventral); e, Mx2; f, Mxp; g, P1; h, P2; i, P3; j, P4.


Species Oithona frigida - Plate 2 of morphological figuresIssued from : S. Nishida in Bull. Ocean Res. Inst., Univ. Tokyo, 1985, No 20. [p.46, Fig.21].
Female: a, habitus (dorsal); b, forehead (lateral); c, A1; d, A2; e, Md (mandibular palp); f, Md (biting edge); g, Mx1.
Nota: Proportional lengths of urosome and caudal ramus 10:30:16:15:15:14. Mx1: inner lobe 1 with 3 thick distal marginal setae about equal in length; outer lobe 1 and outer lobe 2 each with 1 seta; inner lobe 3 with 1 thick spinulose seta, 1 longer seta and 1 fine seta; endopodite oval, with 1 seta about twice as long as endopod itself; exopodite with 3 setae.


Species Oithona frigida - Plate 3 of morphological figuresissued from : I. Rosendorn in Wiss. Ergebn. dt. Tiefsee-Exped. \"Valdiviella\", 1917, 23. [p.17, Fig.7].
Female: a, P4.
Nota: Proportion of lengths (p.cent) Prosome : 64.1, Urosome : 56.09 . Relative lengths of urosomal segments and caudal rami: 6: 12: 6: 6: 7: 6.5. Setal formula of the exopod swimming legs P1 to P4 (Se = outer setae ; Si = inner setae), P1 : 1, 1, 3 Se ; 1, 1, 4 Si ; P2 : 1, 1, 2 Se ; 0, 1, 5 Si ; P3 : 1, 0, 1 Se ; 0, 1, 5 Si ; P4 : 0, 0, 1 Se ; 0, 1, 5 Si . Distal outer seta of exopod 3 of P4 long (compare with O. pseudofrigida).

Male: b, habitus (dorsal); c, urosome; d, left A1; e, Md (mandibular palp).
Nota: Proportion of total lengths (p.cent) Prosome : 65.48, Urosome : 34.52 . Relative lengths of urosomal segments and caudal rami: 10: 16: 11: 9: 7: 7: 10.


Species Oithona frigida - Plate 4 of morphological figuresissued from : I. Rosendorn in Wiss. Ergebn. dt. Tiefsee-Exped. \"Valdiviella\", 1917, 23. [p.18, Fig.8].
Male: a, P1; b, P2; c, P3; d, P4.
Setal formula of the exopod swimming legs P1 to P4 (Se = outer setae), P1 : 1, 1, 3 Se ; P2: 1, 1, 3 Se ; P3 : 1, 1, 3 Se ; P4 : 1, 1, 2 Se.


Species Oithona frigida - Plate 5 of morphological figuresissued from : W. Giesbrecht in Copepoden. Res. voyage du S. Y. Belgica. Rapports scientifiques, Zoologie, 1902. [Taf. VI, Figs.10-16].
Female (from Antarctic): 10, forehead (lateral); 11, idem (dorsal); 12, Mx1: 13, P1; 14, P2; 15, exopod of P3; 16, P4.


Species Oithona frigida - Plate 6 of morphological figuresissued from : V.S. Shuvalov in Opred. Faune SSSR, Nauka, Leningrad, 1980, 125. [p.105, Fig.19].
Female: 1-2, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); 3, A1; 4-5, forehead (lateral and dorsal, respectively); 6, Md (masticatory edge); 7, A2; 8, Mx2; 9-10, thoracic segments 4 and 5, genital segment (dorsal and lateral, respectively); 11, Mx1; 12, Mxp; 13, posterior part of urosome (dorsal); 14, P1; 15, P2; 16, P4.

Compl. Ref.:
? Pavlova, 1966 (p.44); Fukuchi & Tanimura, 1981 (p.37); ? Kovalev & Shmeleva, 1982 (p.85); Kawaguchi & al., 1986 (tab.2); Zmijewska, 1987 (tab.2a); Hopkins & Torres, 1988 (tab.1); Freire & al., 1993 (tab.3); Gonzalez & al., 1994 (p.331); Metz, 1995 (p.190); 1996 (p.34, 87); Errhif & al., 1997 (p.422); Atkinson, 1998 (p.293); Elwers & Dahms, 1998 (p151); Razouls & al., 2000 (p.343, tab. 3, 5, Appendix); Chiba & al., 2001 (p.95, tab.4, 7); Hunt & al., 2001 (p.374, tab.1, 2); Ward & al., 2003 (p.121, tab.4); Bielecka & Zmijewska, 2005 (p.96); Hunt & Hosie, 2006 (p.1203, tab.2); Tsujimoto & al., 2006 (p.140, Table1); Deibel & Daly, 2007 (p.271, Table 6b, Rem.: Antarctic polynyas); Fielding & al., 2007 (p.2106, tab.1); Schnack-Schiel & al., 2008 (p.1056, Table 1, 2); Magris & al., 2011 (p.260, abundance, interannual variability); Ward & al., 2012 (p.78, Table A1, B1)
NZ: 5

Distribution map of Oithona frigida by geographical zones
Species Oithona frigida - Distribution map 3Issued from : S. Nishida in Bull. Ocean Res. Inst., Univ. Tokyo, 1985, No 20. [p.133, Fig.82].
Indo-Pacific geographical distribution of Oithona frigida. Dotted line: Antarctic Convergence.
Species Oithona frigida - Distribution map 4issued from : I. Rosendorn in Wiss. Ergebn. dt. Tiefsee-Exped. \"Valdiviella\", 1917, 23. [Taf. I].
The genus Oithona: Distribution of species sampled during the Deutsche Tiefsee Expedition 1898-99.
The size of symbols indicates the relative quantitty of the species.
Loc:
Antarct. (Croker Passage, Drake Passage, Scotia Sea, King George Is., Péninsule, Mer de Weddell, Atlant. SW, SE, Syowa station, Indien, Pacif. SW, SE), sub-Antarct. (Géorgie du Sud N, Atlant. SW, off Prince Edward W, Crozet Is., Indien, Pacif. SW, Mer de Ross), Indien S, off Tasmanie S, Atlant. SW (in Björnberg & al., 1981), Brazil (Mucuri estuary), ? [ Mer Egée (in Pavlova, 1966, p.44), I. Barbade (in Sander & Moore, 1978, p.233), Yucatan (in Suarez & Gasca, 1989, p.200)]
N: 48
Lg.:
(25) F: 1,4-1,13; (31) F: 1,23; (33) F: 1,35-1,25; (35) F: 1,28-1,25; (66) F: 1,35-1,19; (247) F: 1,3; (627) F: 1,24-1,23; (649) F: 1,20; M: 0,84; (880) F: 1,19-1,35; {F: 1,13-1,40; M: 0,84}
Rem.: epi-bathypelagic.
Sampling depth (Antarct., sub-Antarct.) : 0-1000 m.
Certain locality records in the subtropical Atlantic and in the Mediterranean Sea result from a confusion with O. pseudofrigida. For Vervvort (1951, p.149) a closely related form, differing from the typical O. frigida in the spinulation of the swimming legs (the number of outer edge spines on the P3 and P4) has been described as O. frigida var. pseudofrigida Rosendorn (1917 a, p.19) from the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
Nishida (1985, p.48) points to this species and closely allied O. pseudofrigida possess 2 setae on the free segment of P5, but are closely related to O. plumifera and O. setigera and quite different from those species placed in Dioithona by Kiefer (1935). This suggests that the present subgenus Dioithona, as presently defined, does not represent a monophyletic group.
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