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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Calocalanus plumatus  Shmeleva, 1965   (F)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Calanoidea
Family Paracalanidae

References

Shmeleva, 1965 c (p.10, Descr.F, figs.F); 1967 a (p.1179, figs.F); Corral Estrada, 1970 (p.124, figs.F, Rem.); Corral, 1972 (n°138, p.4, 5, figs.F); Hure & Krsinic, 1998 (p.20, 100); Vives & Shmeleva, 2007 (p.955, figs.F, Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : J. Corral Estrada in Tesis Doct., Univ. Madrid, A-129, Sec. Biologicas, 1970. [Lam.34, figs.1-6].
Female (from Canarias Is.): 1, P1; 2, P2; 3, P3; 4, P4; 5, P5; 6, P5 (another specimen).
Plate 2 issued from : J. Corral Estrada in Tesis Doct., Univ. Madrid, A-129, Sec. Biologicas, 1970. [Lam.33, figs.3-5].
Female: 3, A1; 4, urosome (ventral); 5, idem (dorsal).
Plate 3 issued from : A.A. Shmeleva in Zool. Zh., 1967, 46 (8). [p.1179, Fig.4].
Female (from Ionian Sea): 1, habitus (dorsal); 2-6, P1 to P5; 7, urosome (dorsal).

Nota: Head and 1st pedigerous somite fused, 4th and 5th thoracic somites separated. A1 24-segmented, exceed the body length of 1.5 times; the last segment is fine, 1.7 times longer than the preceding; strong, red, densely feathered setae on the 16th-17th and 22nd-23rd segments. Urosome 2-segmented. genital segment broad with very well developed spermathecae. Anal somite 2 times as broad as long; at the place where the anal somite joints the caudal rami there is a tuft of small fine setae. The length and the width of the caudal rami are approximately the same. P5 slightly asymmetrical, the left leg 3-segmented and a little longer than the right one; the border between the 2nd and 3rd segments indistinct; on the 2nd segment of the right leg there is a small lateral spinule; both legs terminate in long and fine apical setae with a crown of small spinules at their base.

Complementary References

Corral Estrada & Pereiro Muñoz, 1974 (tab.I); Kovalev & Schmeleva, 1982 (p.83); Vives, 1982 (p.290); Greze & al., 1985 (p.7); Lozano Soldevilla & al., 1988 (p.57); Siokou-Frangou, 1997 (tab.1); Razouls & al., 2000 (p.343, Appendix); Uysal & al., 2002 (p.17, tab.1); Vukanic, 2003 (139, tab.1); Mazzocchi & Di Capua, 2010 (p.426); Selifonova, 2011 a (p.77, Table 1, alien species in Black Sea); Shiganova & al., 2012 (p.61, Table 4); Uysal & Shmeleva, 2012 (p.909, Table I); Lidvanov & al., 2013 (p.290, Table 2, % composition); Terbiyik Kurt & Polat, 2013 (p.1163, Table 2, fig.9, seasonal distribution); Mazzocchi & al., 2014 (p.64, Table 4, 5, abundance); Benedetti & al., 2016 (p.159, Table I, fig.1, functional characters); Benedetti & al., 2018 (p.1, Fig.2: ecological functional group); Belmonte, 2018 (p.273, Table I: Italian zones)

Distribution

Localisations

Morocco-Mauritania, Canary Is., Ibero-moroccan Bay, Medit. (Alboran Sea, NW Basin, Adriatic Sea, Ionian Sea, Aegean Sea, Iskenderun Bay, Lebanon Basin, Black Sea), Indian, sub-Antarct. (Indian)

Quotations

N: 22

Dimensions (mm)

(180) F: 0,61-0,58; (418) F: 0,6-0,58; (428) F: 0,6-0,53; {F: 0,53-0,61}

Remarks

epipelagic.
This species resembles Calocalanus pavoninus.
After Benedetti & al. (2018, p.1, Fig.2) this species belonging to the functional group 4 corresponding to small filter feeding herbivorous and mixed feeding omnivorous (mostly broadcasters).
Last update : 06/02/2020

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