Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Clausocalanoidea ( Superfamily )
        Aetideidae ( Family )
            Pseudochirella ( Genus )
Pseudochirella spectabilis  (Sars, 1900)   (F,M)
Syn.: Undeuchaeta spectabilis Sars, 1900 (p.59, figs.F,M); Mrazek, 1902 (p.522); Wilson, 1936 c (p.90); Sewell, 1948 (p.496); Richter, 1994 (tab.4.1a);
Euchirella elongata Wolfenden, 1905 a (p.19, figs.F); 1911 (p.239, figs.F);
Pseudochirella elongata : Vervoort, 1957 (p.69, Rem.); Park, 1978 (p.159, figs.F,M); Markhaseva, 1984 (p.512, figs.F,M); Hopkins & Torres, 1988 (p.82, tab.2); Markhaseva, 1989 (p.39, 41, figs.F,M); Auel & Hagen, 2002 (p.1013, tab.2)
Ref.:
Brodsky, 1950 (1967) (p.187, figs.F,M); Vidal, 1971 a (p.15, 25, 118, figs.F,M); Bradford & Jillett, 1980 (p.67); Markhaseva, 1989 (p.38, fig.F); 1996 (p.289, figs.F,M); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.879, 923, figs.F,M); Park & Ferrari, 2009 (p.143, Appendix 1)
Species Pseudochirella spectabilis - Plate 1 of morphological figuresissued from : T. Park in Antarctic Res. Ser. Washington, 1978, 27. [p.160, Fig.37]. As Pseudochirella elongata
Female: A, habitus (left side); B, posterior part of metasome and urosome (dorsal view); C, idem (left side); D, idem (right side); E, forehead (lateral); F, posterior part of metasome and genital segment (ventral view); G, A2; H, Md.


Species Pseudochirella spectabilis - Plate 2 of morphological figuresissued from : T. Park in Antarctic Res. Ser. Washington, 1978, 27. [p.161, Fig.38]. As Pseudochirella elongata
Female: A, Mx1; B, P1; C, P2; D, basipods of P4 (posterior view); P1-2: legs (anterior view)


Species Pseudochirella spectabilis - Plate 3 of morphological figuresissued from : T. Park in Antarctic Res. Ser. Washington, 1978, 27. [p.162, Fig.39]. As Pseudochirella elongata
Male: A, habitus (dorsal view); B, idem (right side); C, posterior part of metasome and urosome (right side); D, forehead (lateral); E, last metasomal and genital segments (dorsal view); F, A2.


Species Pseudochirella spectabilis - Plate 4 of morphological figuresissued from : T. Park in Antarctic Res. Ser. Washington, 1978, 27. [p.163, Fig.40]. As Pseudochirella elongata
Male : A, P2 (anterior view); B, P5 (viewed from left side); C, P5 (viewed from right side); D, two distal exopodal segments of left P5 (lateral view).


Species Pseudochirella spectabilis - Plate 5 of morphological figuresissued from : E.L. Markhaseva in Trudy Zool. Inst. RAN, St. Petersburg, 1996, 268. [p.291, Fig.233].
Female (from different specimens)Ce: forehead (lateral); CP4: coxopod of fourth legs (partial).


Species Pseudochirella spectabilis - Plate 6 of morphological figuresissued from : E.L. Markhaseva in Trudy Zool. Inst. RAN, St. Petersburg, 1996, 268. [p.293, Fig.235].
Female: distal part of metasome and genital segment ( specimen in the Zoological Museum of Oslo University).


Species Pseudochirella spectabilis - Plate 7 of morphological figuresissued from : E.L. Markhaseva in Trudy Zool. Inst. RAN, St. Petersburg, 1996, 268. [p.292, Fig.234].
Female: P1, P2 (specimens from the central part of the Arctic Basin).
Male (specimens from the Arctic Basin).


Species Pseudochirella spectabilis - Plate 8 of morphological figuresissued from : R.N. Wolfenden in Die Marinen Copepoden der Deutschen Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903, 1911. [p.239, Fig.25]. As Euchirella elongata.
Female: coxopodite of P4.


Species Pseudochirella spectabilis - Plate 9 of morphological figuresissued from : R.N. Wolfenden in Die Marinen Copepoden der Deutschen Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903, 1911. [Pl.XXVIII, Fig.6]. As Euchirella elongata.
Female: 6, habitus (dorsal).


Species Pseudochirella spectabilis - Plate 10 of morphological figuresissued from : E.L. Markhaseva in Okeanol., 1984, 24 (3). [p.391, Fig.1]. As Pseudochirella elongata.
Female (from 80°-86°N, 140-160°E): 1, habitus (dorsal); 2, forehead (lateral); 3-4, posterior part of prosome and genital segment (dorsal); 5-6, idem (left and rignt side, respectively); 7, idem (ventral); 8, A1; 9, basipod of P4.

Male: 10, P5.
1-3, 5-9 after specimen from region of Franz Josef Land; 4, 10 after specimen from eastern part of Arctic Basin.


Species Pseudochirella spectabilis - Plate 11 of morphological figuresissued from : E.L. Markhaseva in Okeanol., 1984, 24 (3). [p.392, Fig.2]. As Pseudochirella elongata.
Female (from Franz Josef Land): genital field (after KOH treatment).

Compl. Ref.:
Harding, 1966 (p.17, 71); Dunbar & Harding, 1968 (p.319); Vinogradov, 1968 (1970) (p.266); Minoda, 1971 (p.25); Kosobokova & al., 1998 (tab.2); Auel, 1999 (tab.2); Razouls & al., 2000 (p.343, tab. 4, 5, Appendix); Kosobokova & Hirche, 2000 (p.2029, tab.2); Yamaguchi & al., 2002 (p.1007, tab.1); Kosobokova & Hopcroft, 2010 (p.96, Table 1, fig.7); Kosobokova & al., 2011 (p.29, Table 2, Rem.: Arctic Basins)
NZ: 6

Distribution map of Pseudochirella spectabilis by geographical zones
Species Pseudochirella spectabilis - Distribution map 3issued from : W. Vervoort in B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Reseach Expedition, Reports - Ser. B, Vol. III, 1957 [Fig.54]. As Pseudochirella elongata.
Chart showing the geographical distribution (white circle) in the seas surrounding the Antarctic continent.
Nota: In this chart the area frequented by whaling vessels has been hatched. The Antarctic circle (66°.5 S) has been drawn as a broken line. The numbers I to VI refer to the sectors into which the Antarctic seas are divided according to Mackintosh (1942) (after Vervoort, 1951).
Loc:
Antarct. (Mer de Weddell, Atlant. SW, SE, Indien, Pacif. SW, S, SE), Arct. (bassin polaire), Arct. (Fletcher's Ice Is., Lomonosov Ridge, Nansen Basin, Amundsen Basin, Makarov Basin, Canada Basin), Mer du Groenland, Bermudes (in Wilson, 1936 c), Mer de Béring, Chili
N: 26
Lg.:
(10) F: 7,7-7,5; (20) F: 7,75-7,16; M: 6,66; (25) F: 7,65; (37) F: 8-7,17; M: 6,66-6; (134) F: 8; M: 6; (208) F: 7,9; {F: 7,16-8,00; M: 6,00-6,66}
Rem.: epi-meso-bathypelagic.
Sampling depth (Antarct.) : 0-1000-5000 m.
This form seems typically bipolar.
Last update : 26/05/2011
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