Pontellopsis armata - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Species Card of Copepod

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Pontellopsis armata (Giesbrecht, 1889) (F,M)

Abbreviations or symbols

Syn.:

Monops armatus Giesbrecht, 1889; 1892 (p.487, 496, 773, figs.F,M)

Ref.:

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List of the studied authors )

Giesbrecht & Schmeil, 1898 (p.148, Rem. F,M); Thompson & Scott, 1903 (p.236, 253); Wolfenden, 1905 (1906) (p.1022, figs.F); A. Scott, 1909 (p.170, Rem.); Sewell, 1914 a (p.238); 1932 (p.385); Mori, 1937 (1964) (p.97, figs.M); Sewell, 1947 (p.251); C.B. Wilson, 1950 (p.304, figs.F,M, Rem.); Voronina, 1962 a (p.68, 70: Rem.); Tanaka, 1964 c (p.269, Rem.F); Chen & Zhang, 1965 (p.108, figs.M, as armatus); Saraswathy, 1966 (1967) (p.84); Kos, 1972 (Vol.I, figs.F, M, Rem.); Silas & Pillai, 1973 (1976) (p.846, figs.F,M, Rem.); Pillai, 1975 (p.135, figs.F, Rem.); 1977 (1982) (p.59, Rem.); Marques, 1982 (p.766); Zheng & al., 1982 [p.88, Figs.F,M); Ohtsuka & al., 1991 (p.214); Chihara & Murano, 1997 (p.871, Pl.157,160: F,M); Mulyadi, 2002 (p.126, figs.F,M, Rem.); Conway & al., 2003 (p.136, figs.F,M, Rem.); Phukham, 2008 (p.93, figs.F,M);

Species Pontellopsis armata - Plate 1 of morphological figures

issued from: Q.-c Chen & S.-z. Zhang in Studia Marina Sinica, 1965, 7. [Pl.48, 4-5]. As Pontellopsis armatus.
Male (from E China Sea): 4, habitus (dorsal); 5, P5 (posterior).

Species Pontellopsis armata - Plate 2 of morphological figures

&issued from : E.G. Silas P.P. Pillai in J. mar. biol. Ass. India, 1973 (1976), 15 (2). [p.846, Fig.33].
Female (from Indian Ocean): a, habitus (dorsal); b, urosome (dorsal); c, P5.

Male: d, urosome (dorsal); e, P5; f, left P5 (terminal part, enlarged).
Scale as in Calanopia minor.

Species Pontellopsis armata - Plate 3 of morphological figures

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.41, Fig.58]. As Monops armatus.
Female (E Philippines): 58, habitus (dorsal).

Species Pontellopsis armata - Plate 4 of morphological figures

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.41, Fig.46]. As Monops armatus.
Female: 46, Th5 and urosome (dorsal).

Species Pontellopsis armata - Plate 5 of morphological figures

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.26, Fig.19]. As Monops armatus.
Female: 19, P5 (anterior view).

Species Pontellopsis armata - Plate 6 of morphological figures

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.41, Fig.47]. As Monops armatus.
Male: 47, Th5 and urosome (dorsal).

Species Pontellopsis armata - Plate 7 of morphological figures

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.26, Figs.26, 27]. As Monops armatus.
Male: 26, left P5 (posterior view); 27, right P5 (posterior view).

Species Pontellopsis armata - Plate 8 of morphological figures

issued from : Z. Zheng, S. Li, S.J. Li & B. Chen in Marine planktonic copepods in Chinese waters. Shanghai Sc. Techn. Press, 1982 [p.89, Fig.50].
Female: a, habitus (dorsal); b, urosome (dorsal); c, idem (lateral, left side); d, idem (ventral); e, P5.

Male: f, habitus (dorsal); g, P5.

Scale bars in mm.

Species Pontellopsis armata - Plate 9 of morphological figures

issued from : T. Mori in The pelagic Copepoda from the neighbouring waters of Japan, 1937 (2nd edit., 1964). [Pl.45, Figs.5-8].
Male: 5, P5 (with parasitic organisms); 6, P1; 7, A2; 8, habitus (dorsal).

Species Pontellopsis armata - Plate 10 of morphological figures

issued from : Mulyadi in Treubia, 2002, 32; [p.126, Fig.46].
Female (from Lombok Sea ): a, habitus (dorsal); b, P5.

Male: c, habitus (dorsal); d, metasomal somite 5 and urosome (dorsal); e, rostrum (anterior view); f, P5.

Species Pontellopsis armata - Plate 11 of morphological figures

issued from : N. Phukham in Species diversity of calanoid copepods in Thai waters, Andaman Sea (Master of Science, Univ. Bangkok). 2008. [p.177, Fig.51].
Female (from W Malay Peninsula): a, habitus (dorsal); b, A1; c, P5.

Male: d, habitus (dorsal); e, right A1; f, urosome (dorsal); g, P5.

Body length after the drawings: F = 2.348 mm; M = 2.100 mm.

issued from : P.P. Pillai in J. mar. biol. Ass. India, 1975, 17 (2). [p.136, Fig.3, a-b].
Female (from Indian Ocean): a, urosome (dorsal); b, P5.
Scale bars: 0.3 mm.

Issued from : J.R. Beltran Castro in Tesis M.C., Inst. Politecnico Nacional, La Paz, B.C.S., 2014. [p.48, Fig.22].
Female (from Islas Marias, G. of California): last thoracic segments and urosome.

Compl. Ref.:

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List of the studied authors )

Wilson, 1942 a (p.204); Sewell, 1948 (p.419); Yamazi, 1958 (p.152, Rem.); Ganapati & Shanthakumari, 1962 (p.9, 16); Sherman, 1963 (p.216: fig.2, p.220: fig.9, p.224: fig.14); Heinrich, 1964 (p.87: fig.5); Carter, 1977 (1978) (p.36); Guangshan & Honglin, 1984 (p.118, tab. as armatus); Madhupratap & Haridas, 1986 (p.105, tab.1); M. Lefèvre, 1986 (p.33, 40); Hernandez-Trujillo, 1994 (tab.1); Shih & Young, 1995 (p.72); Gallienne & al., 2004 (p.5, tab.3); Lopez-Ibarra & Palomares-Garcia, 2006 (p.63, Tabl. 1, seasonal abundance vs El-Niño); Ayon & al., 2008 (p.238, Table 4: Peruvian samples); Palomares-Garcia & al., 2013 (p.1009, Table I, V, abundance vs environmental factors); in CalCOFI regional list (MDO, Nov. 2013; M. Ohman, comm. pers.); Jagadeesan & al., 2013 (p.27, Table 3, seasonal abundance); Beltran Castro, 2014 (p.47, Table 1, 2: molecular CO1); Jerez-Guerrero & al., 2017 (p.1046, Table 1: temporal occurrence); Palomares-Garcia & al., 2018 (p.178, Table 1: occurrence)

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Distribution map of Pontellopsis armata by geographical zones

Distribution map of Pontellopsis armata for the Zone Indian Ocean

Distribution map of Pontellopsis armata for the Zone China Seas, Vietnam

Species Pontellopsis armata - Distribution map 2

issued from : P. Pillai in J. mar. biol. Ass. India, 1975, 17 (2). [p.141, Fig.7].
Occurrence of Pontellopsis villosa and P. armata collected from 32 stations in the Indian Ocean (See in: Hand Book to the International Zooplankton Collections, volume I, 1969).

Loc:

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Geographical glossary )

South Africa (off Durban, Natal), Arabian Sea, Laccadive Is., Maldive Is., Sri Lanka, Rodrigues Is. - Seychelles, Mascarene Basin, Indian, india (Gulf of Mannar, Lawson's Bay), Nicobar Is., Nankauri Harbour, W Malay Peninsula (Andaman Sea), Indonesia (off Surabaya, Lombok Strait, Flores Sea, Celebes Sea), Philippines, China Seas (East China Sea, South China Sea), Japan, Tanabe Bay, Pacif. (tropical & central), Pacif. (W equatorial), S California, W Baja California, Bahai Magdalena (rare), La Paz, G. of California, Islas Marias, Hawaii, Moorea Is. (lagoon), Bahia Cupica (Colombia), off Peru

Type locality: east Philippines.

Lg.:

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References of the authors concerning dimensions )

(46) F: 2,55; M: 2,1; (120) F: 2,45; (256) F: 2,51-2,36; M: 2,11-1,90; (276) F: 2,6-2,168; M: 2,586-1,92; (290) M: 2; (530) F: 2,5; (866) F: 2,36-2,75; (991) F: 2,36-2,51; M: 1,9-2,11; (1023) F: 2,56-2,75; M: 2; (1115) F: 2,4; {F: 2,17-2,75; M: 1,90-2,59}

Rem.:

neritic.

See in DVP Conway & al., 2003 (version 1)

Last update : 08/12/2020


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