Pontella tenuiremis - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Pontella tenuiremis Giesbrecht, 1889 ()

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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Abbreviations or symbols

Synonymy

Pontella fera (M) Dana,1849;
Pontellina (Eupontellina) tenuiremis : Claus,1893

References

List of the studied authors

Giesbrecht, 1892 (p.462, 478, 774, figs.F,M); Giesbrecht & Schmeil, 1898 (p.144, Rem. F,M); Thompson & Scott, 1903 (p.236, 252); Wilson, 1942 a (p. (p.204, figs.F); C.B. Wilson, 1950 (p.300, Rem.); Grice, 1962 (p.239, figs.M); Silas & Pillai, 1973 (1976 )(p.834); Bradford-Grieve, 1999 b (p.201, figs.F,M, fig. 194)

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, Figs.3, 4, 7].
Female: 3, habitus (dorsal); 4, urosome (lateral); 7, idem (ventral).

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.40, Fig.37].
Female: 37, forehead (lateral).

Species Pontella tenuiremis - 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.24, Fig.24].
Female: 24, P5 (anterior view).

Species Pontella tenuiremis - 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.24, Figs.25, 26].
Male: 25, left P5 (anterior view); 26, right P5 (anterior view).

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.24, Fig.6].
Male: 6, right A1 (segments 19-21).

Species Pontella tenuiremis - Plate 6 of morphological figures

Plate 6 issued from : G.D. Grice in Fish. Bull. Fish and Wildl. Ser., 1962, 61. [p.238, Pl.34, Figs.4-7].
Male (from 00°00'03'S, 157°00'E): 4,habitus (dorsal); 5, forehead (lateral); 6, P5; 7, left P5.

Species Pontella tenuiremis - Plate 7 of morphological figures

Plate 7 issued from : A. Fleminger in Tulane Stud. Zool., 1957, 5 (2). [p.20, Fig.13].
Female: 13, Md (cutting edge)
Nota: compare with the Md of P. mimocerami Fleminger, 1957, p.20, fig.12.

Species Pontella tenuiremis - Plate 8 of morphological figures

Plate 8 Issued from : O.E. Garrote, E. Suarez-Morales & A. Morales-Ramirez in Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 2015, 128 (2). [p.148, Table 1].

Nota: Compare P. tenuiremis with other members of the Pontella fera species group: See P. fera, P. chierchiae and P. cocoensis.
GS = genital double-somite; 5PS = fifth pedigerous somite; EXP = exopod.

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Sewell, 1948 (p.392); Heinrich, 1960 a (p.43: fig.1, p.46: fig.2); Fagetti, 1962 (p.35); Sherman, 1963 (p.216: fig.2, p.218: fig.6, p.221: fig.10, p.223: fig.13, p.224: fig.14); Heinrich, 1964 (p.86: fig.4, 91: fig.7); 1967 (p.1013); Sherman, 1967 (p.23, Rem.); Fleminger, 1967 a (tabl.1); Heinrich, 1969 (p.1457, fig.3); Morris, 1970 (p.2301); Guangshan & Honglin, 1984 (p.118, tab.); M. Lefèvre, 1986 (p.33); Heinrich, 1988 (p.89, fig.11); Alvarez-Silva & al., 2003 (p.737: tab.2); in CalCOFI regional list (MDO, Nov. 2013; M. Ohman, comm. pers.)

Distribution

NZ: 9

Distribution map of Pontella tenuiremis by geographical zones

Distribution map of Pontella tenuiremis for the Zone Indian Ocean
Distribution map of Pontella tenuiremis for the Zone China Seas, Vietnam

Additional Maps & Charts

Map 4 issued from : A.K. Heinrich in Zool. Zh., 1967, 46 (7). [p.1013, Fig.5].
Distibution of three species of Pontella from SW Pacific (Cruise of the R/V 'Vytiaz', december 1 to 5 february 1957.
Points = stations; 2, square = P. tenuiremis; triangle = P. asymmetrica; circle = P. whiteleggei.

Map 5 Issued from : A.K. Heinrich in Trudy Inst. Okeanol., 1960, 41. [p.43, Fig.1].
Distribution in the equatorial and tropical West Pacific of seven species of Pontellidae (Cruise of the R/V 'Vityaz', November 1957 to December 1958.
1: Stations; 2: Pontellopsis villosa; 3: Pontella fera; 4: Labidocera acutifrons; 5: Pontella whiteleggi; 6: Pontella tenuiremis; 7: Pontella chierchiae; 8: Labidocera acuta.

Map 6 issued from : A.K. Heinrich in Zool. Zh., 1969, 48 (10) [p.1459, Fig.3].
Distribution of two species of Pontallidae in the Pacific Ocean.
1: occurrence of Pontella tenuiremis; 2: Labidocera acuta; 3: stations.

Localisations

Geographical glossary

Sri Lanka, Indian (rare), Philippines, China Seas (East China Sea), Pacif. (W equatorial), off New Zealand (N), Pacif. (tropical & sub-tropical), Moorea Is., Hawaii, off California, British Columbia, G. of Tehuantepec, Galapagos, NE Easter Is., off Peru, off Chile

Quotations

N: 16

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(46) F: 2,8; M: 2,65; (101) M: 2,8; {F: 2,80; M: 2,65-2,80}

Remarks

epipelagic.
See remarks in P. mimocerami.
This species belongs to "P. fera"-Group (See in P. fera in Mulyadi, 2003, Table I).

Last update : 15/03/2016

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