Xanthocalanus hirtipes - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Xanthocalanus hirtipes Vanhöffen, 1897 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Order Calanoida

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Superfamily Clausocalanoidea

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Family Phaennidae

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Genus Xanthocalanus

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Synonymy

Xanthocalanus borealis Sars, 1900 (p.49, Descr.F, figs.F); T. Scott, 1902 (p.452, figs.F); Cleve, 1904 (p.209, Rem.); Pearson, 1906 (p.20); Sars, 1919 (1921) (p.2, 4, Rem.); 1925 (p.137, figs.F,M); Rose, 1933 a (p.129, figs.F,M, Rem.); Jespersen, 1934 (p.83, Rem.); Lysholm & al., 1945 (p.24); Brodsky, 1950 (1967) (p.229, figs.F, Rem.M); Shih & al., 1971 (p.205, Rem.); Vidal, 1971 a (p.13, figs.F); Bradford & al., 1983 (p.71); Vives & Shmeleva, 2007 (p.698, figs.F,M, Rem.)
no X. borealis : Sars, 1902 (1903) (p.46, figs.F,M); Wilson, 1932 a (p.70, figs.F,M)

References

List of the studied authors

Xanthocalanus hirtipes Vanhöffen, 1897 a (p.282, Fig.F); 1907 (p.514, figs.F); Mrazek, 1902 (p.522); With, 1915 (p.241, Rem.); Sewell, 1948 (p.496, 501); Dvoretsky & Dvoretsky, 2010 (p.991, Table 2); 2011 a (p.1231, Table 2: abundance, biomass);

Figures

Plate 1 Issued from : G.O. Sars in Résult. Camp. Scient. Prince Albert I, 69, pls.1-127 (1924). [Pl.XXXVIII, figs.1-7]. As Xanthocalanus borealis.
Female: 1, habitus (dorsal); 2, idem (lateral left side).

Male: 3, habitus (lateral left side); 4, Mx2; 5, endopodal segments of P2; 6, endopodal segments of P3; 7, P5

Species Xanthocalanus hirtipes - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 Issued from : G.O. Sars in Résult. Camp. Scient. Prince Albert I, 69, pls.1-127 (1924). [Pl.XXXV, fig.4]. As Xanthocalanus borealis.
Female: 4, P5.

Species Xanthocalanus hirtipes - Plate 3 of morphological figures

Plate 3 Issued from : T. Scott in Rep. Fishery Bd Scotl., 1902, 20 (3). [Pl. XXII, figs. 8-9]. As Xanthocalanus borealis.
Female (from Shetland Islands): 8, habitus (dorsal); 9, P5.

Nota: Distal segment of P5 with 3 moderately stout setiferous terminal spines.

Species Xanthocalanus hirtipes - Plate 4 of morphological figures

Plate 4 Issued from : E. Vanhöffen in Grönland-Expedition der Gesellschaft für Erkunde zu Berlin, 1891-1893. 1897, 2 (1). [p.282, Fig. 18].
Female (from W Greenland): 18, P5.

Nota: Succinct description.

Species Xanthocalanus hirtipes - Plate 5 of morphological figures

Plate 5 Issued from : E. Vanhöffen in Zool. Jb., Syst., 1907, 25 (4) [Pl. 21, Fig.22].
Female (from 70°25'N, 51°10'W): 22, P5.

Species Xanthocalanus hirtipes - Plate 6 of morphological figures

Plate 6 Issued from : E. Vanhöffen in Zool. Jb., Syst., 1907, 25 (4) [Pl. 21, Figs.16, 17].
Female: 16, rostrum; 17,A1.

Species Xanthocalanus hirtipes - Plate 7 of morphological figures

Plate 7 Issued from : E. Vanhöffen in Zool. Jb., Syst., 1907, 25 (4) [Pl. 21, Fig.18].
Female: 18, Md (cutting edge of mandibular blade).

Species Xanthocalanus hirtipes - Plate 8 of morphological figures

Plate 8 Issued from : E. Vanhöffen in Zool. Jb., Syst., 1907, 25 (4) [Pl. 21, Figs.19, 20 a-b, 21, 23, 23 a a].
Female: 19, endopof of P2; 20 a-b, endopod of P3; 21, endopod of P4; 23, terminal seta of distal exopodal segment; 23 a, same (detail of spinules).

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Damas & Koefoed, 1907 (p.400, 401); Jespersen, 1939 (p.58, Rem.); M.W. Johnson, 1963 (p.89, Table 1, 2); Vinogradov, 1968 (1970) (p.195); Buchanan & Sekerak, 1982 (p.41, vertical distribution); Kosobokova & al., 1998 (tab.2); Conover & Gustavson, 1999 (p.41, tab.6); Kosobokova & Hirche, 2000 (p.2029, tab.2); Ringuette & al., 2002 (p.5081, Table 1); Deibel & Daly; 2007 (p.271, Table 1, Rem.: Arctic polynyas); Galbraith, 2009 (pers. comm.); Dvoretsky & Dvoretsky, 2010 (p.991, Table 2); Kosobokova & al., 2011 (p.29, Table 2, Rem.: Amundsen Basin)

Distribution

NZ: 5

Distribution map of Xanthocalanus hirtipes by geographical zones

Localisations

Geographical glossary

Azores, Bay of Biscay, off SW Ireland, Porcupine Bank, Barrow Strait, Ellesmere Island, W Baffin Bay, W & SE Greenland, Norway, Arct. (Barents Sea, Franz Josef Land, Amunsen Basin, Laptev Sea), ? Jones Sound, off British Columbia (rare)

Quotations

N: 23

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(1) F: 5,8; M: 5; (134) F: 4; (1134) F: 4; {F: 4,00-5,80; M: 5,00}

Remarks

bathypelagic.
This form resembles Xanthocalanus fallax.
For Vanhöffen (1897 a) the new species is closer X. minor and X. agilis by the P5 structure, but more hairy, the last thoracic segment ended in short point. The size is the doble than the mediterranean species.

Last update : 10/05/2016

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