Pontella mediterranea - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Pontella mediterranea Claus, 1863 (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

Pontellina mediterranea Claus, 1863 (p.211, figs.M);
? Pontella mediterranea indica Wolfenden, 1905 (1906) (p.1021, Rem.F);
Pontellina mediterranea jaltensis Czerniavski,1868;
Pontella mediterranea jaltensis (Czerniavski, 1868);
no Pontella mediterranea gaboonensis : T. Scott, 1894 b (p.86)

References

List of the studied authors

Giesbrecht, 1892 (p.461, 478, 774, figs.F,M); Thompson, 1888 d (p.143, figs.F,M); Giesbrecht & Schmeil, 1898 (p.143, Rem. F,M); Karavaev, 1894 (p.27, fig.M, Rem.); Pesta, 1920 (p.543); Sars, 1925 (p.353); Rose, 1929 (p.45), 1933 a (p.259, figs.F,M); Crisafi, 1960 e (p.293, figs.F,M, juv.); Porumb, 1970 (fiche CIESMM n°34); Razouls, 1972 (p.95, Annexe: p.92); Silas & Pillai, 1973 (1976) (p.776, 833: Rem); Sazhina, 1985 (p.74, figs.N); Santella & Ianora, 1990 (p.83, subitaneous and diapause eggs); Ianora & al., 1992 (p.401, fig.); Barthélémy & al., 1998 (p.721, genital area); Barthélémy, 1999 a (p.9, Fig.7, A); Lapernat & Razouls, 2002 (p.17, Pl. VI: Md); Avancini & al., 2006 (Pl. 73, figs.F,M, Rem.);Vives & Shmeleva, 2007 (p.514, figs.F,M, Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.40, Fig.39].
Female: forehead (lateral). R = rostrum.

Species Pontella mediterranea - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.24, Fig.48].
Frmale: 48, P5 (anterior view).

Species Pontella mediterranea - Plate 3 of morphological figures

Plate 3 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.40, Fig.1].
Male: habitus (dorsal).

Species Pontella mediterranea - Plate 4 of morphological figures

Plate 4 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.40, Fig.40].
Male: forehead (lateral. R = rostrum.

Species Pontella mediterranea - Plate 5 of morphological figures

Plate 5 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.40, Fig.29].
Male: 29, Th5 and urosome (dorsal).

Species Pontella mediterranea - Plate 6 of morphological figures

Plate 6 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.24, Fig.20].
Male; 20, Md (posterior view).

Species Pontella mediterranea - Plate 7 of morphological figures

Plate 7 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht inMale: 16, Md (masticatory edge).

Plate 8 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.24, Fig.21].
Male: 21, P1 (posterior view).

Plate 9 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.24, Fig.46].
Male: 46, P5 (posterior view).

Plate 10 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.24, Fig.47].
Male: left P5 (posterior view).

Plate 11 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.24, Fig.8].
Male: 8, right A1

Plate 12 issued from : A. Ianora, A. Miralto & S. Vanucci in Mar Biol., 1992, 113. [p.403, Fig.2, A]. SEM micrographs.
Female & Male: A, surface attachment structure (mass of fine setules arranged in two semicircles on a flattened area of the anterodorsal surface of the cephalosome).

For the interpretation of this structure: see in Anomalocera patersoni.

Plate 13 issued from : R.-M. Barthélémy in Thèse Doct. Univ. Provence (Aix-Marseille I), 1999. [Fig.7, A]. Female (off Banyuls, Gulf of Lion): external ventral view genital double-somite.
Scale bar: 0.050 mm.

Plate 14 issued from : P.E. Lapernat & C. Razouls in Vie Milieu, 2002, 52 (1). [p.28, Pl. VI, fig.9].
Masticatory edge of Md gnathobase female (from off Malta, Mediterranean Sea).

Nota: Itoh's index: 564 (number of teeth : 7) .

Plate 15 issued from : L. Santella & A. Ianora in Mar. Biol., 1990, 105. [p.84, Fig.1]. Pontella mediterranea.
A: Subitaneous eggs with a smooth surface and B: those covered with short spines.
C: Diapause eggs with thick spikes.
D to F: Corresponding histological sections showing the presence of a thin outer coat enveloping smooth eggs (D) as compared to the multilayered structure in subitaneous eggs with short spines (E) or diapause eggs (F).

Scale bar = 0.050 mm.

Plate 16 issued from : R.-M. Barthélémy in Thèse Doct. Univ. Provence (Aix-Marseille I), 1999. [Fig.7, A]. Female (off Banyuls, Gulf of Lion): external ventral view genital double-somite.
Scale bar: 0.050 mm.

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Rose, 1925 (p.152); Massuti Alzamora, 1942 (p.97, Rem.); Demir, 1959 (p.176, Rem.); Giron-Reguer, 1963 (p.53); Mazza, 1964 (p.293, weight); Shmeleva, 1965 b (p.1350, lengths-volume -weight relation); Pavlova, 1966 (p.44); Chakroun, 1966 (p.67, Tableau); Mazza, 1966 (p.72); 1967 (p.329, 360, 377); Ehrhardt, 1967 (p.741, geographic distribution, Rem.); Evans, 1968 (p.14); Specchi, 1968 (p.491); Sazhina, 1968 (p.1554, resting eggs); Champalbert, 1969 a (p.598); Kovalev, 1969 a (p.174); 1970 a (p.87, Tableau 1, 2, comparison hyponeustonic & planctonic forms); Marcus, 1970 (p.10); Morris R.J., 1971 (p.275, lipids composition); Carli, 1971 (p.372, tab.1); Apostolopoulou, 1972 (p.328, 368, Rem.); Desgouille, 1973 (p.1, Rem.: p.141); Guglielmo, 1973 (p.399); Vives & al., 1975 (p.53, IV); Weikert, 1975 (p.137, chart); Champalbert & al., 1976 (1978) (p.263, geographic size comparison); 1978 (p.215, weight -CHN); Champalbert & Kerambrun, 1979 (p.357, weight-chimic composition v.s. conservation effect); Vaissière & Séguin, 1980 (p.23, tab.1); Grice & Marcus, 1981 (p.125, Dormant eggs, Rem.: p.134); Grice & Gibson, 1981 (1982) (p.49, eggs instantaneous and diapause); Vives, 1982 (p.295); Kovalev & Shmeleva, 1982 (p.85); Moraitou-Apostolopoulou, 1985 (p.303, occurrence/abundance in E Mediterranean Sea, Rem.: p.316); Regner, 1985 (p.11, Rem.: p.38); Jansa, 1985 (p.108, Tabl.I, II, III, IV); Comaschi Scaramuzza, 1987 (tab.1); Lozano Soldevilla & al., 1988 (p.60); Romano & al., 1996 (p.157, metabolism, diapause); Madhupratap & al., 1996 (p.77, Table 2: resting eggs); Marcus, 1996 (p.144); Hure & Krsinic, 1998 (p.103); Mauchline, 1998 (tab.40, 46); Lapernat, 1999 (p.26); Siokou-Frangou, 1999 (p.478); Seridji & Hafferssas, 2000 (tab.1); Plounevez & Champalbert, 2000 (p.175, Table III, IV, abundance vs fish); Lapernat & Razouls, 2001 (p.123, tab.1); Vukanic, 2003 (p.139, tab.1); Kovalev, 2003 (p.47); Zagorodnyaya & al., 2003 (p.52); Daly Yahia & al., 2004 (p.366, fig.4); Isari & al., 2006 (p.241, tab.II); Khelifi-Touhami & al., 2007 (p.327, Table 1); Hafferssas & Seridji, 2010 (p.353, Table 2); Mazzocchi & Di Capua, 2010 (p.427); Hafferssas & al., 2010 (p.1281, Table III, abundance vs spatial distribution); Gubanova & al., 2013 (in press, Rem.: p.7, Table 4); Lidvanov & al., 2013 (p.290, Table 2, % composition); Benedetti & al., 2016 (p.159, Table I, fig.1, functional characters); Belmonte, 2018 (p.273, Table I: Italian zones)

Distribution

NZ: 2 + 1 doubtful

Distribution map of Pontella mediterranea by geographical zones

Distribution map of Pontella mediterranea for the Zone Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea
Distribution map of Pontella mediterranea for the Zone Indian Ocean

Additional Maps & Charts

Map 5 issued from : A.A. Shmeleva in Bull. Inst. Oceanogr., Monaco, 1965, 65 (n°1351). [Table 6: 35 ]. Pontella mediterranea (from South Adriatic).
Dimensions, volume and Weight wet. Means for 50-60 specimens. Volume and weight calculated by geometrical method. Assumed that the specific gravity of the Copepod body is equal to 1, then the volume will correspond to the weight.

Map 6 Issued from : R. J. Morris in Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 1971, 40B. [p.277, Table 1].
Total lipid and saponification for Pontella mediterranea from the Mediterranea Sea.

Localisations

Geographical glossary

Morocco-Mauritania, off E Canary Is., Ibero-moroccan Bay, Medit. (Alboran Sea, Algiers, Gulf of Annaba, Banyuls, G. of Lions, Marseille, Toulon Harbour, Villefranche-s-Mer, Ligurian Sea, Genova, Tyrrhenian Sea, Gulf of Napoli, Milazzo, Messina, Malta, Tripoli, Adriatic Sea, Venice, Ionian Sea, Aegean Sea, Dardanelles, Marmara Sea, Black Sea (rare), Lebanon Basin), ? Laccadive-Maldive Islands (in Wolfenden, 1905 (1906) (p.1021)

Quotations

N: 69

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(46) F: 3-2,9; M: 2,85-2,7; (340) M: 2,4; (449) F: 3-2,9; M: 2,85-2,7; (478) F: 3,265-2,796; M: 2,612-2,556; (789) [Gulf of Marseille] F: 2,81-2,77; M: 2,54-2,50; [Black Sea: Bosphore] F: 2,785-2,755; M: 2,50-2,46; {F: 2,755-3,265; M: 2,400-2,850}

Remarks

epipelagic; 2000 m (off Malta).
Silas and Pillai (1973, p.833) remark: Two varieties have been described the first, var. jaltensisindica. Wolfenden's bief description of var. indica is based on a single female 3.1 mm long which is said to differ from the typical female as described by Giesbrecht (1892, Pl.24, fig.48) in the size of the external spines of the exopod of P5, as well as the size and structure of the endopodites. There is no subsequent record of this variety from the Indian Ocean. Sewell (1948, p.432) remarked that the record of occurrence of Anomalocera patersoni, Pontella mediterranea and Parapontella brevicornis from the Maldive and the Laccadive by Wolfenden (1906) could be explained by accidental mixing of collections from this region and the Atlantic Ocean.
Demir (1959) found large numbers of the species on the northeast coast of the Aegean Sea during spring and early summer and concludes that the species hyponeustonic is transported from the Aegean to the Black Sea
After Romano & al. (1996) from copepods collected in the Bay of Naples and maintened at 20°C show a diapause.

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