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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Calanopia australica  Bayly & Greenwood, 1966   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Diaptomoidea
Family Pontellidae

Synonymy

Calanopia sp. Bayly, 1965 (p.342)

References

Bayly & Greenwood, 1966 (p.99, figs.F,M); Pillai, 1969 (p.319, fig.F); Silas & Pillai, 1976 (p.791, figs.F,M, Rem.); Greenwood, 1979 (p.93, 94, Rem.); Bradford-Grieve, 1999 b (p.184, figs.F,M, figs.184, 194); Mulyadi, 2002 (p.39, figs.F,M, Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : E.G. Silas & P.P. Pillai in J. mar. biol. Ass. India, 1973 (1976), 15 (2). [p.792, Fig.7].
Female (from Nicobar Islands): a, urosome (dorsal); b-c, outer caudal seta enlarged); d, rostrum (anterior view); e, P5.

Male: f, right A1 (geniculate part); g, P5; h, left P5 (terminal segment).
Scale as in Calanopia minor.
Plate 2 issued from : I.A.E. Bayly & J.G. Greenwood in Ptoc. R. Soc. Queensland, 1966, 77, (11). [p.101, Fig.1].
Female (from Brisbane River mooth and S Moreton Bay): A, habitus (dorsal); B, anterior portion of cephalosome (lateral); C, last metasomal segment and urosome (lateral); D, right caudal ramus (dorsal).
Nota: Urosome 2-segmented. Caudal rami unequal in length, left slightly longer than right. P5 symmetrical. Left A1 19-segmented. Forked rostrum directed ventrally, each fork with distal barb. Conspicuous cephalic hook attached to ventro-lateral margin on each side.

Male: E, habitus (dorsal); F, idem (lateral).
Nota: Left A1, rostrum, cephalic hooks and last metasomal segment as the female.
Plate 3 issued from : I.A.E. Bayly & J.G. Greenwood in Ptoc. R. Soc. Queensland, 1966, 77, (11). [p.103, Fig.2].
Female: K, P5 (anterior aspect); L-M idem anterior aspect and posterior aspects of ramus of K.
Plate 4 issued from : I.A.E. Bayly & J.G. Greenwood in Ptoc. R. Soc. Queensland, 1966, 77, (11). [p.103, Fig.2].
Male: N, Mxp; O, Mx2; P, right A1 (dorsal aspect).
Plate 5 issued from : I.A.E. Bayly & J.G. Greenwood in Ptoc. R. Soc. Queensland, 1966, 77, (11). [p.103, Fig.2].
Male: C-D, P5 (posterior aspect); E-F, terminal portion of left ramus of D and C, respectively; G, distal half of terminal segment of E; H-I, terminal portion of right ramus of D and C, respectively.
Scale of G should = 0.05 mm.
Plate 6 issued from : Mulyadi in Treubia, 2002, 32; [p.40, Fig.10].
Female (from W Indonesian waters): a, habitus (dorsal); b, -e, P1 to P4; f, P5.

Male: g, habitus (dorsal); h, P5.
Plate 7 Calanopia australica.
Female:
1 - P5 exopod 2-segmented.
2 - Cephalic lateral hooks present.
3 - Genital compound somite longer than 2nd urosomite.
4 - Caudal rami asymmetrical, left one longer than right; 2nd exopodal segment of P5 nearly as long as first one.
Male:
1 - Left P5 shorter than right one; basis of left P5 not swollen prosximally.
2 - Prosomal posterolateral corner symmetrical.
3 - Cephalic lateral hooks present.
4 - Caudal rami symmetrical and divergent posteriorly; 2nd exopodal segment of left P5 nearly as long as first one.
5 - 1st exopodal segment of right P5 (chela) without thumb, medial margin of the chela with a group of needle-like spines and 2 smoothly curved processes; 2nd exopodal segment of left P5 with short terminal spine.

Complementary References

Othman & al., 1990 (p.561, 564, Table 1); Greenwood & al., 2002 (p.17, Table 2); Maiphae & Sa-ardrit, 2011 (p.641, Table 2); Mulyadi & Rumengan, 2012 (p.202, Rem.: p.204)

Distribution

NZ: 4

Distribution map of Calanopia australica by geographical zones


Localisations

E Australia (Brisbane River estuary, Moreton Bay), G. of Carpentaria, Indian (Komorta Is., Nancowrie, Nicobar Is.), Indonesia Sunda Strait, Cilacap Bay, N Java coast), Andaman Sea, off SE Japan (Ogasawara Is.: unpublished data)

Type locality: Brisbane River mouth (Australia).

Quotations

N: 7

Dimensions (mm)

(1008) F: 2,06-1,84; M: 1,98-1,74; (1087) F: 1,8-2,04; M: 1,71-1,95; {F: 1,80-2,06; M: 1,71-1,98}

Remarks

epipelagic. Inshore. Estuarine.
For Mulyadi (2002, p.41) this species resembles C. thompsoni
Last update : 10/03/2016

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