Acartia (Acartiura) margalefi - Species Card

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Acartia (Acartiura) margalefi Alcaraz, 1976 (F,M)

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Syn.:

? Acartia lefevrae Bradford,1976 (p.168, figs.F); ? Holmes, 2001 (p.35); ? Acartia clausi: Comaschi Scaramuzza, 1978 (part., p.16: Rem.)

Ref.:

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List of the studied authors )

Alcaraz, 1976 (p.61, figs.F,M); 1983 (p.891); Coen & Mazzocchi, 1985 (p.789, figs.F,M); Ryan & al., 1986 (p.739); Zagami & Guglielmo, 1988-89 (p.61, figs.F,M); Cervelli & al., 1995 (p.117, Rem.: biol. mol.); Belmonte & Mazzocchi, 1997 (p.252, figs.F,M); Belmonte & Cavallo, 1997 (p.377); Belmonte, 1998 a (p.38, fig., Rem.: eggs); Bradford-Grieve, 1999 (n°181, p.4, figs.F,M); Castro-Longoria, 2001 (p.225, fig.1); Vives & Shmeleva, 2007 (p.424, figs.F,M, Rem.)

Species Acartia (Acartiura) margalefi - Plate 1 of morphological figures

issued from : M. Alcaraz in Inv. Pesq. 40 (1). [Fig.3, p.63].
Female (from Ria de Vigo, NW Spain): 1, habitus (dorsal view); 2, P5; 3, urosome (dorsal view).
4, urosome (dorsal view from Acartia clausi.
Specimens located in the Ria of Vigo (NW Spain).
Rem: P5 = fifth leg

Species Acartia (Acartiura) margalefi - Plate 2 of morphological figures

issued from : M. Alcaraz in Inv. Pesq. 40 (1). [Fig.2, p.62].
Male: 1, habitus (dorsal view); 2, P5; 3, left terminal segment of P5; 4, urosome (dorsal view)
Acartia clausi Male: 5, P5; 6, left terminal segment of P5; 7, urosome (dorsal view).
Specimens located in the Ria of Vigo (NW Spain).
Rem: P5 = fifth leg

Species Acartia (Acartiura) margalefi - Plate 3 of morphological figures

issued from : M. Alcaraz in Inv. Pesq. 40 (1). [Table 1, p.71].
Comparison between Acartia margalefi and Acartia clausi.
Specimens located in the Ria of Vigo (NW Spain).

Species Acartia (Acartiura) margalefi - Plate 4 of morphological figures

issued from : G. Zagami & L. Guglielmo in Mem. Biol Mar. Oceanogr.,1988-89, 17. [p.62, Fig.1]. Comparison between and Acartia margalefi from Sicilia (Italia).
Acartia clausi: a, urosome female (dorsal view); b, urosome male (dorsal view); c, P5 male.

Acartia margalefi: d, urosome female (dorsal view); ; e, urosome male (dorsal view); f, P5 male.

Species Acartia (Acartiura) margalefi - Plate 5 of morphological figures

issued from : J.M. Bradford in N. Z. Jl Mar. Freshw. Res., 1976, 10 (1). [p.168, Fig.5]. As . With doubt.
Female (from W France: Brest Harbour; Italy: Genoa Harbour): a-b, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); c-e, P5.

Species Acartia (Acartiura) margalefi - Plate 6 of morphological figures

issued from : J.M. Bradford in N. Z. Jl Mar. Freshw. Res., 1976, 10 (1). [p.169, Fig.6]. As . With doubt.
Female: genital segment. a-c, dorsal view; d-f, lateral view.

Species Acartia (Acartiura) margalefi - Plate 7 of morphological figures

issued from : J.M. Bradford in N. Z. Jl Mar. Freshw. Res., 1976, 10 (1). [p.170, Fig.7]. As . With doubt.
Male (from W France: Brest Harbour; Italy: Genoa Harbour): a-b, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); c, P5 (posterior surface).

issued from : E.V. Pavlova & A.A. Shmeleva in Vestnik zoologii, 2010, 44 (2). [p. e-5, Table 2].
Female: Dimensions and morphological characteristics.
Nota ** : cites from Table 1 the dimensions for A. margalefi (Sevastopol) adopted from Belmonte & Mazzocchi, 1997.

Compl. Ref.:

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List of the studied authors )

Comaschi Scaramuzza, 1987 (tab.1); Jouffre & al., 1991 (p.489, lagoon); Alcaraz & Saiz, 1991 (p.137, fig.3, Table II, turbulence effects); Saiz & Alcaraz, 1992 (tab.1); Mauchline, 1998 (tab.8, 78, p.508: Rem.); Siokou-Frangou, 1999 (p.478); Belmonte & Potenza, 2001 (p.174); Bressan & Moro, 2002 (tab.2); Zagorodnyaya & al., 2003 (p.52); Vaglio al., 2005 (p.163); Smeleva & Selifonova, 2005 (p.57); Valdés & al., 2007 (p.104: tab.1); Rossi, 2008 (p.90: Tableau XII); Mazzocchi & Di Capua, 2010 (p.423);

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Distribution map of Acartia (Acartiura) margalefi by geographical zones

List species for the subzone North Sea of the Zone 9

Distribution map of Acartia (Acartiura) margalefi for the Zone Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea

Species Acartia (Acartiura) margalefi - Distribution map 3

Chart of 1996

Loc:

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Geographical glossary )

Norvège (Svartatjönn), Mer du Nord*, Irlande W (Killary Harbour), ? Riv. de Morlaix, Southampton, ? Brest, Arcachon, Ria de Arosa, Ria de Vigo, Médit. (Barcelone & Masnou harbours, Etang de Bages-Sigean, Thau, Toulon harbour, Port de Gênes, G. de Naples, Sicile, Adriatique S, Venise, Po delta, G. de Saronikos, Mer Egée, Mer Noire)

Lg.:

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References of the authors concerning dimensions )

(185) F: ± 0,792; M: ± 0,778; (251) F: 0,864-0,8; M: 0,821-0,774 (Norvège); F: 0,85-0,764; M: 0,839-0,702 (Sebastopol); {F: 0,76-0,91; M: 0,70-0,90}

Rem.:

Sometimes confounded with Acartia clausi in brackish waters, but of much smaller dimensions, as A. teclae.
This species is dedicated to Ramon Margalef, Professor of Ecology at the University of Barcelona.
My students at the Laboratoire Arago (institute in Banyuls that he knew well) studied his works as models of creativity. Fertile spirit, boiling with ideas, playing with physico-ecological concepts, one could characterise him as the "Dali" of Oceanography, other great Catalan personality. Under a serious and severe cover, he had a great sense of humour, defining a copepod as: "a fifth leg attached to something". (see: Hommage to Ramon Margalef in Oecologia aquatica, 10, Publ. Universitat de Barcelona, 1992).
Vives & Shmeleva (2007, p.425) do not admit the synonymy with Acartia lefevrae, contrary to Bradford-Grieve (1999, p.4). Some localisations are debatable in brackish waters (estuaries and harbour installations).
See remaks in Acartia californiensis.

Last update : 06/03/2013


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