Pontellopsis bitumida - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Pontellopsis bitumida C.B. Wilson, 1950 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Order Calanoida

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Superfamily Diaptomoidea

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Family Pontellidae

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Genus Pontellopsis

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References

List of the studied authors

C.B. Wilson, 1950 (p.305, figs.F,M); Silas & Pillai, 1973 (1976)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : C.B. Wilson in Bull. U.S. natn Mus., 100, 14 (4), 1950. [Pl.30, Fig.453].
Female (from Philippines Islands): 453, habitus (dorsal).

Species Pontellopsis bitumida - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 issued from : C.B. Wilson in Bull. U.S. natn Mus., 100, 14 (4), 1950. [Pl.30, Fig.456].
Female: 456, P5.

Species Pontellopsis bitumida - Plate 3 of morphological figures

Plate 3 issued from : C.B. Wilson in Bull. U.S. National Museum. Bull.100, 14 (4), 1950. [Pl.30, Fig.454].
Male: 454, habitus (dorsal).

Plate 4 issued from : C.B. Wilson in U.S. natn Mus., 100, 14 (4), 1950. [Pl.30, Fig.455].
Male: 455, right A1.

Species Pontellopsis bitumida - Plate 5 of morphological figures

Plate 5 issued from : C.B. Wilson in Bull. U.S. Natn Mus., 100, 14 (4), 1950. [Pl.30, Fig.457].
Male: 457, P5.

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Pontellopsis bitumida by geographical zones

Localisations

Geographical glossary

Philippines

Quotations

N: 1

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(137) F: 1,77; M: 1,54; {F: 1,77; M: 1,54}

Remarks

For C.B. Wilson (1950, p.306) this species can be recognized by the perfect symmetry of the urosome in the female and the long sickle-shaped spine at the right posterior corner of the metasome in the male.

Last update : 29/01/2015

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