Pontella agassizi - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Pontella agassizi Giesbrecht, 1895 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Order Calanoida

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Superfamily Diaptomoidea

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Family Pontellidae

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Genus Pontella

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Synonymy

? Pontella atlantica : C.B. Wilson, 1942 a (p.203); 1950 (p.250)

References

List of the studied authors

Giesbrecht, 1895 c (p.259, figs.F,M); Giesbrecht & Schmeil, 1898 (p.141); Sewell, 1948 (p.392); Chen & Zhang, 1965 (p.105, 128: Rem.); Heinrich, 1987 (p.937: Rem.); Silas & Pillai, 1973 (1976) (p.775)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., 1895, 25 (12). [Taf. IV, Fig.3].
Female (from 13°- 34°N, 97°- 131°W): 3, P5.

Species Pontella agassizi - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., 1895, 25 (12). [Taf. IV, Figs.7-8].
Female: 8, urosome (dorsal).

Male: 7, chela of right P5.

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Heinrich, 1964 (p.86: fig.4); 1969 (p.1461, fig.6); Brinton & al., 1986 (p.228, Table 1); Hernandez-Trujillo, 1994 (tab.1); Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p.110); Alvarez-Silva & al., 2003 (p.737, tab.2); Morales-Ramirez & Suarez-Morales, 2008 (p.521); in CalCOFI regional list (MDO, Nov. 2013; M. Ohman, comm. pers.); Palomares-Garcia & al., 2018 (p.178, Table 1: not seen from 1997-2011 in La Paz Bay)

Distribution

NZ: 2

Distribution map of Pontella agassizi by geographical zones

Additional Maps & Charts

Species Pontella agassizi - Distribution map 2

Map 2 issued from : A.K. Heinrich in Zool. Zh., 1969, 48 (10) [p.1461, Fig.6].
Distribution of four species of Pontellidae in the Pacific Ocean.
1: Pontella fera; 2: Pontella danae; 3:Pontella agassizi; 4: Pontella valida; 5: stations

Localisations

Geographical glossary

off California, W Baja California, Gulf of California, G. of Tehuantepec, W Costa Rica

Quotations

N: 10

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(47) F: 4,3; M: 3,8; {F: 4,30; M: 3,80}

Remarks

After Brinton & al. (1986 (p.246) Wilson's (1950) Gulf og California record of P. atlantica is probably based on misidentification of agassizi.

Last update : 13/11/2020

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