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| Calanoida ( Order ) |  |  |  
|     Diaptomoidea ( Superfamily ) |  |  |  
|         Pontellidae ( Family ) |  |  |  
|             Pontella ( Genus ) |  |  |  |  |  |  
| | Pontella whiteleggei  Krämer, 1896   (F,M) |  | 
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Ref.: |  |  |  | Krämer, 1896 (p.720, figs.F,M); Giesbrecht & Schmeil, 1898 (p.142); Heinrich, 1967 (p.1011, figs.F,M, Rem.); Silas & Pillai, 1973 (1976 ) (p.777); Bradford-Grieve, 1999 b (p.202, figs.F,M, Rem., figs.185, 194) |  | |  issued from : A.K. Heinrich in  Zool. Zh., 1967, 46 (7). [p.1012, Fig.3].  Female (from SW Pacif.): 1, habitus (dorsal); 2, forehead (lateral); 3, urosome (dorsal); 4, last thoracic segment and urosome (lateral right side); 5, urosome (ventral); 6, rostrum; 7, P5; 8-13, details on abdominal segments.
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  issued from : A.K. Heinrich in  Zool. Zh., 1967, 46 (7). [p.1012, Fig.4].  Male: 1, habitus (dorsal); 2, forehead (lateral); 3, last thoracic segment with P5 and urosome (lateral left side); 4, rostrum; 5, A1; 6, right P5; 7, left P5; 8, terminal segment of left P5.
 |  |  |  |  |  |  | Compl. Ref.: |  |  | Sewell, 1948 (p.408); Heinrich, 1960 a (p.43: fig.1, p.46: fig.2); Heinrich, 1969 (p.1461) |  |  |  |  | NZ: | 3 |  |  |  |  |   
  			
				
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				  Distribution map of Pontella whiteleggei by geographical zones
 |  |  |  |  |  | |  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.
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 |  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.
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 |  |  |  |  | Loc: |  |  |  | Australia (New South Wales), off New Caledonia (E, SE), off New Zealand (N & NE),  Japan Sea (in Marukawa, 1921, p.8), Pacif. (SE tropical) |  |  |  |  | N: | 4 |  |  |  |  | Lg.: |  |  |  | (47) F: 5; M: 4,9; (270) F: 6,1-5,3; M: 5,2-4,7; (909) F: 6,2; M: 5,2-5,3; {F: 5,00-6,20; M: 4,70-5,30} |  |  |  |  | Rem.: | epipelagic. |  |  |  |  | Last update : 29/01/2015 |  |  |  
        
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