Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Arietelloidea ( Superfamily )
        Augaptilidae ( Family )
            Haloptilus ( Genus )
Haloptilus spiniceps  (Giesbrecht, 1892)   (F,M)
Syn.: Hemicalanus spiniceps Giesbrecht, 1892 (p.384, 399, 773, figs.F,M);
Haloptilus spinipes : Wolfenden, 1911 (p.187: lapsus calami)
Ref.:
Giesbrecht & Schmeil, 1898 (p.120, Rem. F,M); Wolfenden, 1905 (p.1010, fig.M); A. Scott, 1909 (p.141, Rem.); Wolfenden, 1911 (p.324); Sars, 1925 (p.249, figs.F); Farran, 1929 (p.209, 268); Rose, 1933 a (p.213, figs.F, Rem.F,M); Farran, 1936 a (p.112); ? Mori, 1937 (1964) (p.76, figs. juv.M); Dakin & Colefax, 1940 (p.92, figs.F); Lysholm & al., 1945 (p.37); Grice, 1962 (p.223, figs.F); Tanaka, 1964 b (p.43, Rem. juv.F); Vervoort, 1965 (p.127, Rem.); Owre & Foyo, 1967 (p.82, figs.F,M); Park, 1968 (p.563); Paiva, 1971 (p.25); Ramirez, 1971 (p.86, figs.F); Tanaka & Omori, 1971 (p.255); Matthews, 1972 (p.54, Rem.); Corral Estrada, 1970 (p.172, figs.F); Björnberg & al., 1981 (p.654, 655, figs.F,M); Baessa de Aguiar, 1987 (p.42, figs.F); Park, 1988 (p.14, Redescr.F, figs.F, Rem.); He & al., 1992 (p.249, 250); Chihara & Murano, 1997 (p.729, Pl.61,62: F,M); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.883, 942, figs.F,M); Bradford-Grieve,1999 b (p.64, figs.F,M, Rem., figs.173, 190); Conway & al., 2003 (p.87, figs.F,M, Rem.); Vives & Shmeleva, 2007 (p.247, figs.F,M, Rem.); Phukham, 2008, p.51, fig.F)
Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 1 of morphological figuresissued from : J.M. Bradford-Grieve in The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic Calanoid Copepoda. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, 111, 1999. [p.65, Fig.36].
Female: A, habitus (dorsal); B, forehead (lateral left side); C, Mx1; D, Mx2; E, P5.


Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 2 of morphological figuresissued from : T. Park in Antarct. Res. Ser. Washington, 1988, 47. [p.15, Fig.7];
Female: a, habitus (dorsal); b, idem (lateral right side); c, forehead (ventral); d, idem (lateral); e, urosome (lateral right side); f, idem (dorsal); h, Md (cutting edge); i, idem showing variation.

Nota: Prosome about 6.5 times length of urosome. Spermatheca of a highly complex structure; in lateral view with a small digitiform process extending dorsally.


Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 3 of morphological figuresissued from : T. Park in Antarct. Res. Ser. Washington, 1988, 47. [p.16, Fig.8].
Female: a, Mx1; b, Mxp; c, P1 (anterior); d, P2 (anterior); e, P3 (anterior); f, P4 (anterior); g, P5 (anterior).


Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 4 of morphological figuresissued from : F.C. Ramirez in Revta Mus. La Plata, Seccion Zool., 1971, XI. [Lam.II, figs.1, 10].
Female (from off Brazil): 1, habitus (dorsal); 10, forehead (lateral).
Scale bar: 1.5 mm.


Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 5 of morphological figuresissued from : J. Corral Estrada in Tesis Doct., Univ. Madrid, A-129, Sec. Biologicas, 1970. [Lam.50, fig.5].
Female (from Canarias Is.): 5, forehead (lateral).


Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 6 of morphological figuresIssued from : G.O. Sars in Résult. Camp. Scient. Prince Albert I, 69, pls.1-127 (1924). [Pl.LXXIII, figs.6-10].
Female: 6, habitus (dorsal); 7, forehead (lateral); 8, Md; 9, Mx1; 10, Mx2.


Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 7 of morphological figuresIssued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.27, Figs.5, 40]. As Hemicalanus spiniceps.
Male: 5, distal portion of grasping A1; 40, P5 (anterior view). Ps = left leg; Pd = right leg; Ri = endopod; Si = inner spine; Se = outer spine; St = terminal spine.


Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 8 of morphological figuresIssued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.27, Fig.20]. As Hemicalanus spiniceps.
Female: 20, P1 (posterior view).


Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 9 of morphological figuresissued from : G.D. Grice in Fish. Bull. Fish and Wildl. Ser., 1962, 61. [p.224, Pl.25, Figs.17-20].
Female (from equatorial Pacific): 17, habitus (dorsal); 18, forehead (lateral); 19, Md (mandibular palp); 20, Md (biting edge).
Nota: Short pointed forehead curved downward in lateral view.


Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 10 of morphological figuresissued from : G.D. Grice in Fish. Bull. Fish and Wildl. Ser., 1962, 61. [p.225, Pl.26, Figs.1-5].
Female: 1-5, P1 to P5, respectively.


Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 11 of morphological figuresIssued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.42 , Figs.3, 10].
Hemicalanus spiniceps.
Female: 3, habitus (dorsal); 10, urosome (ventral).
Ab 1-2 = genital double-somite.


Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 12 of morphological figuresIssued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.42 , Fig.21].
Hemicalanus spiniceps.
Female: 21, endopd of A2.
Ri1 = endopodal segment 1.


Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 13 of morphological figuresIssued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.42 , Fig.8].
Hemicalanus spiniceps.
Male: 8, habitus (dorsal).


Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 14 of morphological figuresIssued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.42 , Fig.25].
Hemicalanus spiniceps.
Male: 25, endopod of A2.


Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 15 of morphological figuresIssued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.27, Fig.35]. As Hemicalanus spiniceps.
Female: 35, exopodite 3 of P2.


Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 16 of morphological figuresissued from : H.B. Owre & M. Foyo in Fauna Caribaea, 1, Crustacea, 1: Copepoda. Copepods of the Florida Current. 1967. [p.82, Fig.547].
Female: 547, Md (gnathobase).


Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 17 of morphological figuresissued from : H.B. Owre & M. Foyo in Fauna Caribaea, 1, Crustacea, 1: Copepoda. Copepods of the Florida Current. 1967. [p.18, Fig.60].
Female: 60, P5.


Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 18 of morphological figuresissued from : N. Phukham in Species diversity of calanoid copepods in Thai waters, Andaman Sea (Master of Science, Univ. Bangkok). 2008. [p.137, Fig.11].
Female (from W Malay Peninsula) : a, habitus (dorsal); b, Md; c, forehead; d, urosome (dorsal); e, P5.

Body length after the drawings: F = 1.768 mm.


Species Haloptilus spiniceps - Plate 19 of morphological figuresissued from : J.M. Bradford-Grieve, E.L. Markhaseva & C.E.F. Rocha & B. Abiahy in South Atlantic Zooplankton, Edit. D. Boltovskoy. 1999. Vol.2. Copepoda. [p.1044, Fig. 7.279].
Female: Mx1.

Nota: Exopodite of Mx1 with 8 setae.

Compl. Ref.:
Rose, 1924 d (p.481); Wilson, 1942 a (p.189, Rem.); Massuti Alzamora, 1942 (p.111); Sewell, 1948 (p.350, 496, 504, 509, 514, 548, 558, 559, 567, 568); C.B. Wilson, 1950 (p.237); Hoenigman, 1955 (p.49); Chiba & al., 1957 a (p.11); Fagetti, 1962 (p.31); V.N. Greze, 1963 a (tabl.2); Ahlstrom & Thrailkill, 1963 (p.57, Table 5, abundance); Grice, 1963 a (p.496); Björnberg, 1963 (p.54, Rem.); De Decker & Mombeck, 1964 (p.12); Mazza, 1966 (p.72); Fleminger, 1967 a (tabl.1); Deevey, 1971 (p.224); Roe, 1972 (p.277, tabl.1, tabl.2); Björnberg, 1973 (p.348, 386); Corral Estrada & Pereiro Muñoz, 1974 (tab.I); Vives & al., 1975 (p.50, tab.II); Deevey & Brooks, 1977 (p.156, tab.2, Station "S"); Carter, 1977 (1978) (p.36); Kovalev & Shmeleva, 1982 (p.84); Guangshan & Honglin, 1984 (p.118, tab.); Scotto di Carlo & al., 1984 (1043); De Decker, 1984 (p.317); Longhurst, 1985 (tab.2); Madhupratap & Haridas, 1986 (p.105, tab.1); Ambler & Miller, 1987 (tab.2, 3); Lozano Soldevilla & al., 1988 (p.60); Heinrich, 1990 (p.19); Suarez & al., 1990 (tab.2); Pancucci-Papadopoulou & al., 1990 (p.199); Scotto di Carlo & al., 1991 (p.271); Yoo, 1991 (tab.1); Baessa De Aguiar, 1991 (1993) (p.101); Suarez, 1992 (App.1); Shih & Young,1995 (p.68); Alvarez-Cadena & al., 1998 (t.3); Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p108); Lopez-Salgado & al., 2000 (tab.1); Madhupratap & al., 2001 (figs.4, 5); Holmes, 2001 (p.13); Vukanic, 2003 (p.139, tab.1); Hsiao & al., 2004 (p.325, tab.1); Lo & al., 2004 (p.89, tab.1); Prusova & Smith, 2005 (p.75); Lavaniegos & Jiménez-Pérez, 2006 (Tab.2, 4, Rem.); Dur & al., 2007 (p.197, Table IV); Jitlang & al., 2008 (p.65, Table 1); Neumann-Leitao & al., 2008 (p.799: Tab.II, fig.6); C.-Y. Lee & al., 2009 (p.151, Tab.2); Schnack-Schiel & al., 2010 (p.2064, Table 2: E Atlantic subtropical/tropical); Mazzocchi & Di Capua, 2010 (p.424); Medellin-Mora & Navas S., 2010 (p.265, Tab. 2), Hsiao S.H. & al., 2011 (p.475, Appendix I)
NZ: 16

Distribution map of Haloptilus spiniceps by geographical zones
Loc:
Afr. S (E & W), Argentine-Brésil, off Guyane, G. de Guinée, off I. Ascension S, off Is. Sao Tomé E, Is. du Cap Vert, Canaries, off Maroc-Mauritanie, off Madère, off Portugal, Açores S, off Amazone, Caribbean Colombia, Caribbean Sea, Yucatan, G. du Mexique, Cuba, Floride, Mer des Sargasses, off Bermuda (Station "S"), off Irlande SW, Médit. (Mer d'Alboran, Médit. (W, Monaco, Naples, Strait of Messina, Adriatique, Mljet Is., Ionienne, bassin Levantin), Mer Arabe, Natal, Madagascar, Indien, Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, Indonésie-Malaisie, Philippines, mers de Chine (Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea), Taiwan (SW, E, N: Mienhua Canyon), NW), Japon (Izu), off Japon S, Pacif. W (équatorial), Australie (Grande Barrière, Nouvelle-Galles du Sud), Nouvelle-Zélande (North Island NW), Mer de Tasman N, off Nouvelle-Zélande NE, Pacif. (tropical, équatorial), California, W Baja California, off Guatemala W, Tuamotu E, Hawaii, off Hawaii NE, Fidji, Galapagos SW, Pacif. SE (tropic.), Chili
N: 95
Lg.:
(1) F: 4,1; (16) F: 5,45-3,95; (34) F: 4,02; (35) (N-Z) F: 4,56; (46) F: 4,3-3,8; M: 2,55; (69) juv.F: 2,29; (72) F: 4,99-4,12; (90) 4,07; (91) juv.M: 2,3; (101) F: 3,99-3,7; (104) F: 4,8; (199) F: 5,17-4,48; M: 2,81; (237) F: 4,5; 3,0; (310) F: 5-4,22; (909) F: 4,3-4,5; (991) F: 3,7-5045; M: 2,3-2,55; {F: 3,00-5,45; M: 2,55-2,81}
Rem.: mesopelagic. Recorded once at 700 m depth but otherwise the known depth range is in the uppermost 200-300 m (Matthews, 1972). Sargasso Sea: 0-1000 m (Deevey & Brooks, 1977, Station "S");
Concerning the males of H. fertilis Giesbrecht, 1892 and H. spiniceps, see remarks in Park (1988, p.14).

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