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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Pontella cristata  Krämer, 1896   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Diaptomoidea
Family Pontellidae

Synonymy

no Pontella cristata : C.B. Wilson, 1942 a (p.203)

References

Krämer, 1896 (p.721, figs.F,M); Giesbrecht & Schmeil, 1898 (p.142, Rem.); ? Farran, 1936 a (p.118); Bradford-Grieve, 1999 b (p.198, figs.F,M, Rem., figs.185, 194); Heinrich, 2006 (p.556, figs.F,M)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : A.K. Heinrich in Zool. Zh., 2006,85 (4). [p.558, Fig.2].
Female (from 10°26'-11°29'S, 110°11'-122°30'E): 1, habitus (dorsal); 2, forehead (lateral); 3-6, urosome (dorsal, right lateral, left lateral and ventral, respectively); 7, left P5; 8, right P5; 9, rostrum (frontal view).
Scale bars: 1 mm (1-6); 0.1 mm (7-9).
Plate 2 issued from : A.K. Heinrich in Zool. Zh., 2006,85 (4). [p.557, Fig.1].
Male: 1, habitus (dorsal); 2, Md (biting edge of gnathobase); 3, forehead (lateral); 4, rostrum (frontal view); 5, right A1; 6, posterior prosome and urosome (dorsal); 7, right P5; 8, left P5.
Scale bars: 1 mm (1, 3, 5, 6); 0.1 mm (2, 4, 7, 8).

Complementary References

Sewell, 1948 (p.322)

Distribution

NZ: 2

Distribution map of Pontella cristata by geographical zones


Localisations

E Australia (New South Wales, ? Great Barrier Reef), E Indian (S. Java, Timor Sea)

Quotations

N: 3

Dimensions (mm)

(34) F: 4,14; (47) F: 5; M: 4,5; (955) F: 5,1; M: 4,5; {F: 4,14-5,00; M: 4,50}

Remarks

epipelagic.
Last update : 28/01/2015

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