Parvocalanus elegans - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Species Card of Copepod

Calanoida ( Order )	details
Calanoidea ( Superfamily )	details
Paracalanidae ( Family )	details
Parvocalanus ( Genus )	details	List species for this Genus

Parvocalanus elegans Andronov, 1972 (F,M)

Abbreviations or symbols

Syn.:

Paracalanus dubia : Grice, 1962 (p.183, figs.F, Rem.);
Paracalanus elegans : Chihara & Murano, 1997 (p.845, Pl.134: F,M); Noda & al., 1998 (p.55, Table 3, occurrence); Shimode & Shirayama, 2004 (p.607, tab. 2); Ohtsuka & al., 2008 (p.115, Table 5); Fazeli & al., 2010 (p.153, Table 1); Saitoh & al., 2011 (p.85, Table 4, 5); Johan & al., 2012 (p.647, Table 1, 2, fig.2, salinity range); Johan & al., 2012 (2013) (p.1, Table 1); Nakajima & al., 2015 (p.19, Table 3: abundance);

Ref.:

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List of the studied authors )

Andronov, 1972 (p.140, figs.F,M); Bradford, 1978 (p.133); Hiromi, 1981 (p.159, fig.F); Kesarkar & Anil, 2010 (Rem.: p.406); Al-Yamani & al., 2011 (p.28, figs.F); Soh & al., 2013 (p.70, figs.F); S.Y. Moon & al., 2014 (p.45: F)

Species Parvocalanus elegans - Plate 1 of morphological figures

issued from : Andronov V.N. in Zool. Zh., 1972, 51 (1). [p.140, Fig.2].
Female (from 11°21N, 46°13E): 1-2, habitus (ventral and lateral, respectively); 3-7, P1 to P5; 8, rostrum; 10-11, genital segment (dorsal and left lateral side, respectively).

Male: 9, rostrum; 12-15, P2 to P5; 16-17, habitus (dorsall and lateral, respectively

Species Parvocalanus elegans - Plate 2 of morphological figures

issued from : J. Hiromi in Bull. Plankton Soc. Japan, 1981, 28 (2). [p.160, Fig.4].
Female (from Japan): a-b, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); c-g, P1 to P5.
Scale bars 0.100 mm.

Species Parvocalanus elegans - Plate 3 of morphological figures

issued from : G.D. Grice in Fish. Bull. Fish and Wildl. Ser., 1962, 61. [p.184, Pl.4, Figs.4-12]. As Paracalanus dubia
Female (from 00°38'N, 130°20'E): 4-5, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); 6, urosome (dorsal); 7, A1; 8, P1; 9, P2; 10, P3; 11, P4; 12, P5.

issued from : K.S. Kesarkar & A.C. Anil in J. mar. Biol. Ass. UK, 2010, 90 (2); [p.406, Table 2].
Characteristics of females.

Species Parvocalanus elegans - Plate 5 of morphological figures

issued from : K.S. Kesarkar & A.C. Anil in J. mar. Biol. Ass. UK, 2010, 90 (2); [p.407, Fig.5, R].
Female:R, P5. [and not S indicated by error. C.R.]

Species Parvocalanus elegans - Plate 6 of morphological figures

Issued from : H.Y. Soh, S.Y. Moon & J.H. Wi in Invertebrate Fauna of Korea (eds) Incheon: NIBR, 2013, 21 (28). [p.71, Fig.41].
Female (from Korean waters): A-B, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); C, forehead with rostrum (ventral view); D, genital segment (ventral); F, P5.
Scale bars: A, B = 100 µm; C-F = 25 µm.

Species Parvocalanus elegans - Plate 7 of morphological figures

Issued from : V.N. Andronov in Russian Acad. Sci. P.P. Shirshov Inst. Oceanol. Atlantic Branch, Kaliningrad, 2014. [p.73, Fig.19: 14 ]. Parvocalanus elegans after Andronov, 1972 a.
Male P5.

Species Parvocalanus elegans - Plate 8 of morphological figures

Issued from : S. Y. Moon, S.-H. Youn & H.Y. Soh in ZooKeys, 2014, 456. [p.42, Table I].
Female : marphological characters.
Compare with other species of Parvocalanus : (P/ arabiensis, crassirostris, dubia, leei, latus, serratipes, scotti).

Compl. Ref.:

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List of the studied authors )

Madhupratap & Haridas, 1986 (p.105, tab.1); Othman & al., 1990 (p.561, 563, Table 1); Uysal & al., 2002 (p.17, tab.1); Rezai & al., 2004 (p.486, tab.2, 3, abundance, Rem.); Rezai & al., 2005 (p.157, Table 2, 5: spatial & temporal variations); Prusova & Smith, 2005 (p.75); Zenetos & al., 2005 (p.63, Rem.: p.82, casual occurrence); Cornils & al., 2010 (p.2076, Table 3, Fig.5, fig.F); Zenetos & al., 2010 (p.397); Chew & Chong, 2011 (p.127, Table 2, 3, abundance vs location)

NZ:

Distribution map of Parvocalanus elegans by geographical zones

Distribution map of Parvocalanus elegans for the Zone Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea

Distribution map of Parvocalanus elegans for the Zone Indian Ocean

Species Parvocalanus elegans - Distribution map 3

Chart of 1996

Loc:

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Geographical glossary )

Medit. (Lebanon Basin) (in Uysal & al., 2002), G. of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Arabian Gulf (Kuwait), Perai River estuary, Straits of Malacca, Sangga estuary, Malaysia (Sarawak: Bintulu coast), Tioman Is., SW Celebes, Palau Is., N New Guinea,, Australia (G. of Carpentaria), Japan Sea, japan (Tanabe Bay), S Japan (Kuchinoerabu Is.), Korea

Lg.:

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References of the authors concerning dimensions )

(101) F: 0,49; (148) F: 0,51-0,457; (439) F: 0,5-0,48; (1085) F: 0,45-0,58; M: 0,4; (1174) F: 0,59-0,63; {F: 0,45-0,63; M: 0,40}

Rem.:

epipelagic. Coastal, holo-meromictic lakes.
Lesseptian migration possible.

Last update : 30/10/2019


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