Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Metridinidae ( Family )
        Metridia ( Genus )
Metridia gerlachei  Giesbrecht, 1902   (F,M)
Syn.: Phyllopus Turqueti Quidor,1908 (p.4, figs.F,M)
Ref.:
Giesbrecht, 1902 (p.27, figs.F,M); Wolfenden, 1911 (p.286); Brady, 1918 (p.25, figs.F,M); Farran, 1929 (p.209, 259); Hardy & Gunther, 1935 (p.175); Vervoort, 1951 (p.120, Rem.); 1957 (p.120, figs.M, Rem.); Tanaka, 1960 (p.49, figs.F, M, juv.); 1964 (p.9); Bradford, 1971 b (p.24, figs.F,M); Zvereva, 1972 (1975) (p.254, figs.F,M); Björnberg & al., 1981 (p.640, figs.F,M); Razouls, 1994 (p.140, figs.F,M); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.884, 948, figs.F,M); Bradford-Grieve,1999 b (p.114, figs.F,M, Rem., figs.178, 192); Michels & Schnack-Schiel, 2005 (p.483, , fig.4: Md); Park & Ferrari, 2009 (p.143, Appendix 1); Eyun & al., 2007 (p.268, fig.1: molecular biology)
Species Metridia gerlachei - 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.115, Fig.77].
Male (from Ross Sea): D, P5 (L = left leg; R = right leg).
Nota: Cf. in remarks p.114.


Species Metridia gerlachei - Plate 2 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.115, Fig.77].
Female (from 62°37'S, 169°51'E): A, habitus (left lateral side); B, segment 1 of exopod and endopod of P2; C, P5.
Nota: Cf. in remarks p.114.


Species Metridia gerlachei - Plate 3 of morphological figuresissued from : J.A. Zvereva in Issled. Fauny Moreï, 1972, 12 (20). [p.221, Fig.3, 5-6].
Female (from Antarctic): 5, P2.

Male: 6, P5.


Species Metridia gerlachei - Plate 4 of morphological figuresissued from : W. Vervoort in B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Reseach Expedition, Report-Ser. B, Vol. III, 1957 [Fig.109].
Male (from 66°33'S, 45°32'E): a, habitus (lateral); b, distal part of left A1.


Species Metridia gerlachei - Plate 5 of morphological figuresissued from : W. Vervoort in B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Reseach Expedition, Report-Ser. B, Vol. III, 1957 [Fig.110].
Male: a, right P1 (anterior); b, left P2 (posterior); c, left P4 (posterior); d, P5 (rt = right leg; lt = left leg).


Species Metridia gerlachei - Plate 6 of morphological figuresissued from : J. Michels & S.B. Schnack-Schiel in Mar. Biol., 2005, 146. [p.488, Fig.5].
Mandibular gnathobase.
a-c: Female (from Weddell and Bellingshausen Seas);
d, Male.
a, d: left gnathobase from cranial; b: right gnathobase from distal. V: ventral tooth, C1-C4: central teeth, D1-D3: dorsal teeth, B: dorsal bristle.
Scale bars 0.020 mm.


Species Metridia gerlachei - Plate 7 of morphological figuresissued from : W. Giesbrecht in Copepoden. Res. voyage du S. Y. Belgica. Rapports scientifiques, Zoologie, 1902. [Taf. V, Figs.6-14].
Female (from Antarctic): 6, habitus (dorsal); 7, idem (lateral); 8, anal segment and caudal rami (dorsal); 9, A1 (proximal segments); 11, P2 (basipodite 2); 12, exopodite 3 of P4; 13, P5.

Male: 10, A1 (distal segments); 14, P5 (anterior).

Compl. Ref.:
Sewell, 1948 (p.570, 573, 575); Vinogradov, 1968 (1970) (p.66, 69); Rudyakov, 1972 (p.886, Table 1: sinking rate); Björnberg, 1973 (p.337, 387); Heinrich, 1974 (fig.3); Arashkevich, 1978 (p.118, Table: diets); Schnack & al., 1985 (p.256, fig.4); Almeida Prado Por, 1986 (p.517); Kawaguchi & al., 1986 (tab.2); Zmijewska, 1987 (tab.2a); Hopkins & Torres, 1988 (tab.1); Ward, 1989 (tab.2); Atkinson & al., 1990 (tab.1); Tucker & Burton, 1990 (tab.1); Siegel & al., 1992 (p.18, tab.3,4); Freire & al., 1993 (tab.3); Knox & al., 1996 (tab.1); Zmijewska & al., 1997 (p.127); Errhif & al., 1997 (p.422); Vuorinen & al., 1997 (p.280); Elwers & Dahms, 1998 (p151); Atkinson, 1998 (p.292); Mauchline, 1998 (tab.21, 26, 27, 30, 33, 58, 64); Voronina & Kolosova, 1999 (p.71); Atkinson & Sinclair, 2000 (p.50, 51, 54, 55); Razouls & al., 2000 (p.343, tab. 3, 5, Appendix); Voronina & al., 2001 (p.401); Chiba & al., 2001 (p.95, tab.4, 7); Hunt & al., 2001 (p.374, tab.1); Pasternak & Schnack-Schiel, 2001 (p.25); Li & al., 2001 (p.894, tab.1); Fuentes & Schnack-Schiel, 2005 (p.253); Schultes & al., 2006 (p.21); Tsujimoto & al., 2006 (p.140, Table1); Deibel & Daly, 2007 (p.271, Table 6a, 6b, 7a, Fig.5, Rem.: Antarctic polynyas); Schnack-Schiel & al., 2008 (p.1045: Tab.2, p.1030: fig.7); Schnack-Schiel & al., 2008 (p.1056, Table 1, 4); Kiko & al., 2008 (p.1000, Table 3); Takahashi & al., 2010 (p.1, Table 4, fig.7); Hidalgo & al., 2010 (p.2089, Table 2); Yang & al., 2011 (p.1065, fig.2c); Marrari & al., 2011 (p.1614, Table 2, Fig.2A, 5, 6); Ward & al., 2012 (p.78, Table A1); Thompson G.A. & al., 2012 (p.127, Table 2, 3, fig.5)
NZ: 6 + 1 doubtful

Distribution map of Metridia gerlachei by geographical zones
Loc:
Antarct. (King George Is., Péninsule, Drake Passage, Scotia Sea, Weddell Sea, Atlant. SW, Syowa station, SE, Mer de Weddell, Indien, Pacif. SW, SE, Mer de Ross, McMurdo Sound, Station Davis, Prydz Bay), sub-Antarct. (Drake Passage, Scotia Sea, Indien), Atlant. SW, off Prince Edward W, Indien S (in Wolfenden, 1911), Chili (N-S), Tasmanie S, off Nouvelle-Zélande S (sub-Antarct.)
N: 99
Lg.:
(25) F: 4,01-3,38; M: 2,61-2,16; (31) F: 3,94-3,58; (66) F: 3,86-3,46; M: 2,39; (102) F: 4,3-3,65; M: 2,7-2,35; (114) F: 3,79-3,25; {F: 3,25-4,30; M: 2,16-2,70}
Rem.: epi- to bathypelagic.
Sampling depth (Antarct., sub-Antarct.) : 0-1000 m.
This species is only known from the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic, it is one of the most abundant species; only C.B. Wilson (1950, p.264) reports the species near the Antilles, off Orénoque, off Rio de Janeiro S, Patagonia, off W. Colombia, Panama Canal; Vervoort (1957, p.121) assumes a confusion with M. lucens.
For Vervoort (1951, p.120), Wolfenden (1911) assumed that the specimens recorded by Cleve (1904) as M. lucens from South of the Cape Colony belong to the present form; this, however, is questionable, as M. lucens, a common form in boreal and temperate parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, penetrates far to the South. Moreover, M. gerlachei is at once recognized by the curiously shaped cephalothorax and it seems that Cleve must have been quite capable to discriminate between both forms.
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