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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Calocalanus longispinus  Shmeleva, 1978   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Calanoidea
Family Paracalanidae

Synonymy

Calocalanus styliremis : Bradford, 1972 (p.34, figs.F)

References

Shmeleva, 1978 a (p.84, figs.F,M); Bradford-Grieve, 1994 (p.53, figs.F, fig.99)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : A.A. Shmeleva in Biol. morya, Vladivostok, 1978, 2. [p.885, Fig.3].
Female (from S Indian Ocean]: 1-2, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); 3, urosome (dorsal); 4-6, P1 to P3; 7, P5.

Male: 8, habitus (dorsal); 9, P5.

Complementary References

Razouls & al., 2000 (p.343, tab. 3, Appendix)

Distribution

NZ: 2

Distribution map of Calocalanus longispinus by geographical zones


Localisations

sub-Antarct. (Indian), New Zealand

Quotations

N: 3

Dimensions (mm)

(196) F: 0,75; (420) F: 0,7-0,67; M: 0,57; {F: 0,67-0,75; M: 0,57}

Remarks

epipelagic.
Sampling depth (sub-Antarct.) : 0-100 m.
For Bradford-Grieve (1994, p.53) the Southwest Pacific specimens are assigned to this species provisionally.
Last update : 31/12/2014

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