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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Calocalanus minutus  Andronov, 1973   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Calanoidea
Family Paracalanidae

References

Andronov, 1973 a (p.1407, Descr.F, figs.F); Bradford-Grieve, 1994 (p.55, Descr.M, figs.F,M, fig.99); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.877, 909, figs.F,M)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : J.M. Bradford-Grieve in The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic Calanoid Copepoda. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir, 102, 1994. [p.56, Fig.28].
Female: habitus (dorsal); B, urosome (lateral right side); C, idem (dorsal); D, basipod 2 of Mxp; E, P1.

Male: F, habitus (dorsal); G, idem (lateral left side); H, urosome (dorsal); I, idem (lateral left side); J, A1; K, A2; L, P1; M, right P5; N, left P5.
Plate 2 issued from : V.N. Andronov in Zool. Zh., 1973, 52 (9). [p.1408, Fig.2, (1-7)].
Female (from Namibia): 1-2, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); 3-6, P1 to P4; 7, P5.

Complementary References

Madhupratap & Haridas, 1986 (p.105, tab.1); Cornils & Blanco-Bercial, 2013 (p.861, Table 1, molecular analysis, figs.3, 4, 5); Hirai & al., 2020 (p.1, Fig. 5: cluster analysis (OTU), spatial distribution).

Distribution

NZ: 5

Distribution map of Calocalanus minutus by geographical zones


Localisations

Namibia, W Guinea Basin, Indian, New Zealand (southern boundary of subtropical water), Pacif. (subtropical, rare).

Data from Cornils & Blanco-Bercial (2013): 01°00'S: 09°00'W.

Quotations

N: 5

Dimensions (mm)

(196) F: 0,57-0,5; M: 0,44-0,42; (423) F: 0,55-0,5; {F: 0,50-0,57; M: 0,42-0,44}

Remarks

epiplagic.
For Andronov (1973, p.1410) this species is most closely related to C. gracilis Tanaka, 1956, C. elegans Shmeleva, 1965, and C. elongatusShmeleva, 1968, and differs from them in the form and relative size of spermathecae and P5, presence of 2 segmented endopodites P2 and P3 and abdomen 3-segmented.
Last update : 29/10/2020

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