Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Diaptomoidea ( Superfamily )
        Pseudodiaptomidae ( Family )
            Calanipedia ( Genus )
Calanipedia aquaedulcis  Kritschagin, 1873   (F,M)
Syn.: Poppella guernei Richard, 1888 (p.43); de Guerne & Richard, 1889 (p.149, figs.); Giesbrecht & Schmeil, 1898 (p.63, fig.M)
Ref.:
Dussart, 1967 a (p.86, figs.F,M); Kiefer, 1978 d (p.57, figs.F,M); Grindley, 1984 (p.218, fig.M, Rem.); Dussart, 1989 (p.13, figs.F,M); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.174)
Species Calanipedia aquaedulcis - Plate 1 of morphological figuresissued from : B. Dussart in Ls Copépodes des eaux continentales. Edit. N. Boubée & Cie, 1967, Tome I: Calanoïdes et Harpacticoïdes. [p.87, Fig.22].
Female (from Camargue, France): habitus (dorsal); P5.
Nota: A1 25-segmented (25th very little), reaching about the 2nd urosomal segment. Urosome 4-segmented. Genital segment slightly shorter than the urosomal segments 2 and 3 together; showing a hook, curved backwards with a sensitive spine. P5 without endopodite; exopodite 3-segmentedexopoal segment 2 with 1 inner, a process distal spiniform strong spine, and at base 1 little, strong, spine; 3rd exopodal segment a thick claw-like, curved inward, with 1 strong inner spine and a little, short process at base. After Schachter (1952) there is a slightly dissymetry in exopodite segment 2 between the right and left legs. Caudal rami 6 -7 times longer than wide, inner marginal frange, with 5 plumose setae.

Male: P5.
Nota: Right A1 prehensile.

Compl. Ref.:
Rose & Vaissière, 1952 a (p.121); Cannicci, 1962 (p.349, Table 3); Castel & Lasserre, 1977 (p.129, fig.8); Grindley, 1990 (p.240, Rem.); Cavallo & Belmonte, 1995 (p.56, tab.1); Bressan & Moro, 2002 (p.58, tab.2); Kovalev, 2003 (p.47); S.C. Marques & al., 2006 (p.297, tab.III); S.C. Marques & al., 2007 (p.213, fig.6)
NZ: 2

Distribution map of Calanipedia aquaedulcis by geographical zones
Loc:
Portugal (Mondego estuary); Canal du Midi (France), Salse & Canet lagoons, around mediterranean Sea, Adriatique (S, N), Mer Noire (estuaries), Mer d'Azov, Mer Caspienne, Mer d'Aral
N: ?. data incomplete
Lg.:
F: 1,30-1,45; M: 1,0 (from Camargue);
Rem.: freshwater species, sometimes in river mouths and brackish lagoons.
Not considered in the marine environment.
Incomplete data.
Last update : 24/04/2013
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