Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Diaptomoidea ( Superfamily )
        Acartiidae ( Family )
            Acartiella ( Genus )
Acartiella minor  Sewell, 1919   (F,M)
Syn.: Acartia (Acartiella) minor : Sewell, 1932 (p.393); 1948 (p.324, 429); Wellershaus, 1969 (p.269, 270, figs.F,M); Silas, 1972 (p.650)
Ref.:
Sewell, 1919 (p.15, figs.F,M); 1924 (p.791, figs.F,M); 1948 (p.324, 429)
Species Acartiella minor - Plate 1 of morphological figuresissued from : R.B.S. Sewell in Fauna of the Chilka Lake, 1924, 12. [Pl. XLVI, Fig.2]. .
Female and Male (from Chilka Lake).


Species Acartiella minor - Plate 2 of morphological figuresissued from : R.B.S. Sewell in Rec. Indian Mus., (1918) 1919, XYI. [Pl.IX, Figs.6].
Male (from Chilka Lake): 6, P5.

Nota: Proportional length of cephalothorax and abdomen 65:35. Proportional lengths of urosomites and furca 10 : 20 : 16 : 10 : 6 : 38 = 100. P5: the basal segment is produced on the right side in a single stout conical process which overlaps the proximal end of exopod 1.


Species Acartiella minor - Plate 3 of morphological figuresissued from : R.B.S. Sewell in Rec. Indian Mus., (1918) 1919, XYI. [Pl.X, Fig.7].
Female (from Chilka Lake): 7, P5.

Nota; Head and 1st thoracic segment separate, 4th and 5th fused. Proportional length of cephalothorax and abdomen 67 : 33. Proportional lengths of urosomites and furca 31:20:26:23 = 100. Rostrum absent. Posterior thoracic margin rounded and devoid of spines. A1 19-segmented (segments 2-4, 9-10, 12-14, 15-16 fused); there are no spines on any of the segments.


Species Acartiella minor - Plate 4 of morphological figuresIssued from : S. Wellershaus in Veröff. Inst. Meeresforsch. Bremerh., 1969, 11 (2). [p.269, Fig.58-60]. After Sewell, 1919.
Female: 59, P5; 60, urosome.

Male: 58, P5.

Compl. Ref.:
Madhupratap & Haridas, 1986 (p.105, tab.2)
NZ: 1

Distribution map of Acartiella minor by geographical zones
Loc:
India (Chilka Lake, Salt Lakes)
N: 2
Lg.:
(83) F: 1,14; M: 1,07; {F: 1,14; M: 1,07}
Rem.: estuaries, brackish.
See A. keralensis in Wellershaus (1969, p.267)
Last update : 15/12/2017
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