Pontella andersoni - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Pontella andersoni Sewell, 1912 (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

Pontellopsis Andersoni : Rose, 1956 (p.462)

References

List of the studied authors

Sewell, 1912 (p.323, 344, 370, figs.F,M, juv.); 1932 (p.375); 1934 (p.80); 1948 (p.324); Silas, 1972 (p.650); Silas & Pillai, 1973 (1976) (p.818, figs.M); Mulyadi, 2000 (p.183, fig. Juv 5 F, juv. M); Mulyadi, 2002 (p.55, figs. Juv.5F, Juv.M, Rem.);

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Plate 1 Issued from : R.B.S. Sewell in Rec. Indian Mus., 1912, 7. [Pl.XX, Figs.1-6].
Female (from off Chittagong, Bay of Bengal): 1, habitus (dorso-lateral left); 2, A1; 3, P5.
Nota: Head and 1st thoracic segment separate, 4 th and 5 th separate. Rostrum, strong and bifid, no rostral lenses present. The back of the head is crossed by a strongly marked groove. Side hooks present. Abdomen 2-segmented, the 2nd small: Proportional lengths of urosomites and furca as 20:6:11. A1 24-segmented (segments 11-12 partially fused), do not reach to the end of the thorax. Mxp with the 2nd segment armed with a row of spines down the margin.

Male: 4, urosome; 5, A16; 6, right P5.
Nota: Small rostral lenses present. Abdomen 5-segmented, the 3rd is the longest. Proportional lengths of urosomites and furca as 7:5:10:5:5:15.

Species Pontella andersoni - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 Issued from : Mulyadi in The Raffles Bull. Zool., 2000, 48 (2). [p.184, Fig.2].
Female (immature, stage V) (from off labuan, W Java): a, habitus (dorsal); b, rostrum (anterior view); c, A1; d, P1; e, P5.
Rostral lenses absent. A1 not reaching distal end of 5 th metasome.

Male (immature): f, habitus (dorsal); g, rostrum (anterior view); h, right A1; i, P1; j, P5.

Plate 3 Issued from : Mulyadi in Crustaceana, 2003, 76 (4). [p.392, Table I)•
Characteristic feature of five Pontella species groups in the Indo-West Pacific.

Species Pontella andersoni - Plate 4 of morphological figures

Plate 4 issued from : E.G. Silas & P.P. Pillai in J. mar. biol. Ass. India, 1973 (1976), 15 (2). [p.817, Fig.19, g-j].
Male (from Indian Ocean): g, habitus (dorsal); h, rught A1; i, right P5; j, left P5.
Scale as in Calanopia minor.

Species Pontella andersoni - Plate 5 of morphological figures

Plate 5 Issued from : Mulyadi in Treubia, 2002, 32 (2). [p.89, Fig.28]
Female immature stage V (from off Labuan, west Java): a, habitus (dorsal); b, rostrum (anterior view); c, A1; d, P1; e, P5.

Male immature (from off Labuan, west Java): f, habitus (dorsal); g, rostrum (anterior view); h, right A1; i, P1; j, P5.

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Krishnaswamy, 1953 (p.136); Ganapati & Shanthakumari, 1962 (p.9, 16); Sarkar & al., 1986 (p.178); Madhupratap & Haridas, 1986 (p.105, tab.1); Mitra & al., 1990 (fig.3); Kazmi, 2004 (p.228)

Distribution

NZ: 2

Distribution map of Pontella andersoni by geographical zones

Distribution map of Pontella andersoni for the Zone Indian Ocean

Distribution map of Pontella andersoni for the Zone China Seas, Vietnam

Localisations

Geographical glossary

Indian (Karachi, G. of Mannar, Lawson's Bay, Madras, Hooghly estuary, Mandarmani, Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea), Coast of Burma, Malaysia (Archipelago Mergui), W Java (off Labuan), Viet-Nam (Cauda Bay)

Type locality: off Chittagong (Bay of Bengal)

Quotations

N: 9

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(81) F: 3,34; M: 2,86; (256) M: 2,88; (795) F: 3,34; {F: 3,34; M: 2,86-2,88}
(900) F juv. V: 3,5-3,55; (1087) Juv.M: 3,32-3,38

Remarks

Brackish. Coastal. Neritic, epipelagic.
This species belongs to "P. andersoni"-Group (See in P. andersoni in Mulyadi, 2003, Table I)

Last update : 28/01/2015

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