Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Diaptomoidea ( Superfamily )
        Centropagidae ( Family )
            Centropages ( Genus )
Centropages gracilis  (Dana, 1849)   (F,M)
Syn.: Hemicalanus gracilis Dana, 1849
Ref.:
Giesbrecht, 1892 (p.305, 321, 771, figs.F,M); Giesbrecht & Schmeil, 1898 (p.57, Rem. F,M); Thompson & Scott, 1903 (p.234, 247); Wolfenden, 1905 (1906) (p.1013, figs.F); A. Scott, 1909 (p.114, Rem.); Wolfenden, 1911 (p.356); Sewell, 1914 a (p.223); Rose, 1929 (p.32: Rem.); Farran, 1936 a (p.108): Mori, 1937 (1964) (p.62, figs.F,M); Dakin & Colefax, 1940 (p.92, figs.F); Pesta, 1943 (p.24, figs.F,M); Sewell, 1947 (p.163, Rem.); C.B. Wilson, 1950 (p.187, fig.M); Chiba, 1956 (p.57, figs.F,M); Chiba & al., 1957 (p.308); 1957 a (p.11); Tanaka, 1960 (p.46); Grice, 1962 (p.218, figs.F,M, Rem.); Brodsky, 1962 c (p.126, figs.F,M); Tanaka, 1963 (p.8, Rem.F,M); Kasturirangan, 1963 (p.33, 35, figs.F,M); Vervoort, 1964 b (p.309); Chen & Zhang, 1965 (part., p.75, figs.F,M); Saraswathy, 1966 (1967) (p.78); Vidal, 1968 (p.37, figs.F,M); Marques, 1976 (p.994, fig.M); Björnberg & al., 1981 (p.644, figs.F,M); Chihara & Murano, 1997 (p.766, Pl.83,86: F,M); Mulyadi, 1998 (p.62, figs.F,M); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.884, 950, figs.F,M); Conway & al., 2003 (p.118, figs.F,M, Rem.).
Species Centropages gracilis - Plate 1 of morphological figuresissued from : Brodsky K.A. in Issled. dal'nevost. Morei SSSR, 1962, 8. [Fig.30, p.129].
Female: a, habitus (dorsal view); b, idem (lateral view); c, urosome (ventral view); d, urosome (left lateral view); e, P5.

Male: f, habitus (dorsal view); P5 (L: left; R: right).


Species Centropages gracilis - Plate 2 of morphological figuresissued from : Grice G.D. in Fishery Bull. Fish Wildl. Serv. U.S., 1962, 61 (186). [Plate 23, Figs. 1-3].
Female: 1, P5.

Male: 2, habitus (dorsal view); 3, P5.


Species Centropages gracilis - Plate 3 of morphological figuresissued from : Mulyadi in The Raffles Bull. Zool., 1998, 46 (1). [Fig.5, p.63].
Female: a, habitus (dorsal view); b, genital complex (ventral view); c, P5.

Male: d, habitus (dorsal view); e, Th5 and urosome (dorsal view); f, P5.


Species Centropages gracilis - Plate 4 of morphological figuresissued from : Chen Q.-C. & Zhang S.-Z. in Studia Marina Sinica, 1965, 7. [Plate 26, p.75].
Female: 8, habitus (dorsal view); 9, 1st and 2nd segment of the urosome (ventral view); 10, P5 (posterior view).

Male: 11, habitus (dorsal view); 12, P5 (anterior view).


Species Centropages gracilis - Plate 5 of morphological figuresissued from : Mori T. in The pelagic Copepoda from the neighbouring waters of Japan. S. Shirai ed., Tokyo, 1937; 2nd edit. 1964. [Pl. 31, Figs.1-7].
Female: 5, urosome (ventral view); 6, P5; 7, habitus (dorsal view).

Male: 1, habitus (dorsal view); 2, right A1; 3, P5; 4, exodal segments 2 & 3 of right P5.


Species Centropages gracilis - Plate 6 of morphological figuresissued from: Q.-c Chen & S.-z. Zhang in Studia Marina Sinica, 1965, 7. [Pl.26, 8-12].
Female (from E China Sea): 8, habitus (dorsal); ; 9, 1st and 2nd urosomal segments (ventral); 10, P5 (posterior).

Male: 11, habitus (dorsal); 12, P5 (anterior).

Compl. Ref.:
Sewell, 1932 (p.229); Ganapati & Shanthakumari, 1962 (p.8, 15); Gaudy, 1963 (p.26, Rem.); De Decker, 1964 (p.15, 20, 28); De Decker & Mombeck, 1964 (p.11); Grice & Hulsemann, 1967 (p.17); Fleminger, 1967 a (tabl.1); Delalo, 1968 (p.138); Deevey, 1971 (p.224); Björnberg, 1973 (p.385); Carter, 1977 (1978) (p.36); Chen Q-c, 1980 (p.794); De Decker, 1984 (p.316, 341: carte); Guangshan & Honglin, 1984 (p.118, tab.); Madhupratap & Haridas, 1986 (p.105, tab.1); M. Lefèvre, 1986 (p.33); Renon, 1987 (tab.2); Hernandez-Trujillo, 1989 a (tab.1); Hirakawa & al., 1990 (tab.3); Yoo, 1991 (tab.1); Shih & Young, 1995 (p.69); Park & Choi, 1997 (Appendix); Padmavati & al., 1998 (p.349); Hwang & al., 1998 (tab.II); Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p109); Lavaniegos & Gonzalez-Navarro, 1999 (p.239, Appx.1); Neumann-Leitao & al., 1999 (p.153, tab.2); Fernandez-Alamo & al., 2000 (p.1139, Appendix); Suarez-Morales & al., 2000 (p.751, tab.1); Lo & al., 2001 (1139, tab.I); Shimode & Shirayama, 2004 (tab.2); Hsiao & al., 2004 (p.325, tab.1); Lan & al., 2004 (p.332, tab.1); Lo & al.*, 2004 (p.218, fig.6); Gallienne & al., 2004 (p.5, tab.3); Zuo & al., 2006 (p.162: tab.1); Hwang & al., 2006 (p.943, tab.I); Lavaniegos & Jiménez-Pérez, 2006 (p.138, tab.2, 3, Rem.); Dur & al., 2007 (p.197, Table IV); Neumann-Leitao & al., 2008 (p.799: Tab.II, fig.6); Fernandes, 2008 (p.465, Tabl.2); C.-Y. Lee & al., 2009 (p.151, Tab.2)
NZ: 15

Distribution map of Centropages gracilis by geographical zones
Loc:
Afr. S (E & W), off Tristan da Cunha NE, Congo, ? Açores, Brésil, off Natal, off Bermuda, Mer Rouge, Indien, Mer Arabe, G. d'Aden, Is. Laquedives, Is. Maldives, Ceylan, Mascarene Basin, Natal, Madagascar (Nosy Bé), Rodrigues Is. - Seychelles, Inde (Lawson's Bay), Bay of Bengal, Indonésie-Malaisie, Philippines, Hong Kong, mers de Chine, Taiwan (E, SW, NW), Mer Jaune, Corée S, Japon (Tanabe Bay), Californie, Basse Californie W, Pacif. W (équatorial), Australie (Grande Barrière, Nouvelle-Galles du Sud), I. Moorea, Bikini, Hawaii, Galapagos, Mexique W, G. de Tehuantepec, Clipperton Is., Equateur, Chili N
N: 83 (Atlant. S: 7; Atlant. N: 2; Mer Rouge: 1; Indien: 30; Indo-Malaisie: 3; Pacif.: 39)
Lg.:
(26) F: 2,07-1,93; M: 1,95-1,79; (34) F: 2,04-1,92; (47) F: 1,85; M: 1,8; (66) F: 2,05; (78) F: 1,8-1,7; M: 1,7; (101) F: 2,01-1,9; M: 2,04; 1,84; (104) F: 2; (150) F: 1,92-1,87; M: 1,9; (187) F: 2,16; M: 2,03; (290) F: 1,95-1,85; M: 1,8-1,7; (333) F: 1,85; M: 1,81; (530) F: 2; (776) F: 1,85; M: 1,8-1,75; (786) F: 1,88-1,85; (991) F: 1,85-2; M: 1,81-2,04; {F: 1,70-2,16; M: 1,70-2,04}
Rem.: epiplagic.
See in DVP Conway & al., 2003 (version 1)
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