Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Diaptomoidea ( Superfamily )
        Pontellidae ( Family )
            Pontella ( Genus )
Pontella spinicauda  Mori, 1937   (F,M)
Syn.: ? Labidocera spinicauda : Chiba & al., 1957 (p.308)
Ref.:
Mori, 1937 (1964) (p.96, figs.F,M); Chen & Zhang, 1965 (p.102, figs.F,M); Kos, 1972 (Vol. I, figs.F; M, Rem.); Ohtsuka & al., 2015 (p.123, Table 2)..
Species Pontella spinicauda - Plate 1 of morphological figuresissued from: Q.-c Chen & S.-z. Zhang in Studia Marina Sinica, 1965, 7. [Pl.43, 5-11].
Female (from E China Sea): 5, habitus (dorsal); 6, forehead (lateral); 7, P5 (posterior).

Male: 8, habitus (dorsal); 9, distal part of right A1; 10, P5 (postrior); 11, distal segment of left P5 (posterior).


Species Pontella spinicauda - Plate 2 of morphological figuresissued from : T. Mori in The pelagic Copepoda from the neighbouring waters of Japan, 1937 (2nd edit., 1964). [Pl.44, Figs.3-11].
Female: 3, A2; 5, urosome (lateral, right side); 6, habitus (dorsal); 7, A1; 8, P1; 10, P5.

Male: 4, right A1; 9, habitus (dorsal); ; 11, P5.

Compl. Ref.:
Silas & Pillai, 1973 (1976) (p.777, 833); Hernandez-Trujillo, 1989 (tab.1); Cervantes-Duarte & Hernandez-Trujillo, 1989 (tab.3); Hirakawa & al., 1990 (tab.3); Yoo, 1991 (tab.1); Kim & al., 1993 (p.270); Hernandez-Trujillo, 1994 (tab.1); Shih & Young, 1995 (p.72); Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p.110); Ohtsuka & al., 2008 (p.115, Table 6); Maiphae & Sa-ardrit, 2011 (p.641, Table 2, 3, Rem.); in CalCOFI regional list (MDO, Nov. 2013; M. Ohman, comm. pers.)
NZ: 4 + 1 doubtful

Distribution map of Pontella spinicauda by geographical zones
Loc:
? Indian (Central part), G. of Thailand, S Korea, S Japan, China Seas (Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea), Japan (Onagawa, Toyama Bay), W Baja California, G. of California
N: 18
Lg.:
(91) F: ± 4,5; M: ± 4,2 ; (290) F: 4,75-5,4; M: 4,2-4,75; {F: 4,50-5,40; M: 4,20-4,75}
Rem.: For Silas & Pillai (1973, p.833) the occurrence of this species by Tsuruta from central part of Indian Ocean without description and figure is considered as doubtful.
Last update : 15/04/2020
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