Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Diaptomoidea ( Superfamily )
        Pontellidae ( Family )
            Pontella ( Genus )
Pontella mimocerami  Fleminger, 1957   (F,M)
Ref.:
Fleminger, 1957 (p.19, figs.F,M); Owre & Foyo, 1967 (p.97, figs.F,M); Silas & Pillai, 1973 (1976) (p.776)
Species Pontella mimocerami - Plate 1 of morphological figuresissued from : H.B. Owre & M. Foyo in Fauna Caribaea, 1967, 1, Crustacea, 1: Copepoda. [p.13, Fig.22].
Female (from Florida Current): 22, habitus (dorsal).


Species Pontella mimocerami - Plate 2 of morphological figuresissued from : H.B. Owre & M. Foyo in Fauna Caribaea, 1967, 1, Crustacea, 1: Copepoda. [p.95, Figs.691-693].
Female: 691, P5.

Male: 692, habitus (dorsal); 693, P5.


Species Pontella mimocerami - Plate 3 of morphological figuresissued from : A. Fleminger in Tulane Stud. Zool., 1957, 5 (2). [p.20, Figs.1-12].
Female (from Key West Harbor, Florida): 2, habitus (dorsal); 5, rostrum; 6, last thoracic segment and urosome (dorsal); 8, urosome (ventral); 10, same (lateral); 11, P5; 12, Md (cutting edge).

Compl. Ref.:
Turner & al., 1979 (p.289, 292, Tab.3); Suarez & al., 1990 (tab.2); Suarez & Gasca, 1991 (tab.2); Suarez, 1992 (App.1); Alvarez-Cadena & al., 1998 (tab.1,2,3); Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p.110); Lopez-Salgado & al., 2000 (tab.1); Morales-Ramirez & Suarez-Morales, 2008 (p.514); Medellin-Mora & Navas S., 2010 (p.265, Tab. 2)
NZ: 2

Distribution map of Pontella mimocerami by geographical zones
Loc:
Caribbean Colombia, Yucatan (Ascension Bay), E Costa Rica, G. of Mexico, Cuba, Florida, North Carolina, Georges Bank.
N: 13
Lg.:
(472) F: 3,63-3,18; M: 3,18-2,7; {F: 3,18-3,63; M: 2,70-3,18}
Rem.: Coasts.
For Fleminger (1957, p.21) the male is close to P. cerami Scott and the female is similar to P. tenuiremis Giesbrecht.
Last update : 03/02/2017
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