Pontellopsis brevis - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Pontellopsis brevis Giesbrecht, 1889 (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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Synonymy

Monops brevis Giesbrecht,1889; 1892 (p.487, 497, 773, figs.F,M); Oliveira, 1945 (p.191);
Monops edwardsii (part.) Claus, 1893

References

List of the studied authors

Giesbrecht & Schmeil, 1898 (p.148, Rem. F,M); Farran, 1929 (p.210, 280); Gaudy, 1963 (p.29); Vervoort, 1965 (p.192, Rem.); Marques, 1966 (p.9); Björnberg, 1972 (p.60, Rem., figs.N); Silas & Pillai, 1973 (1976) (p.777); Pillai, 1977 (1982) (p.61, Rem.); Björnberg & al., 1981 (p.660, F,M); Sazhina, 1985 (p.74, figs.N); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.885, 960, figs.F,M)

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.41, Fig.52]. As Monops brevis.
Female: 52, habitus (dorsal).

Species Pontellopsis brevis - Plate 2 of morphological figures

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.41, Fig.42]. As Monops brevis.
Female: 42, Th5 and urosome (dorsal).

Species Pontellopsis brevis - 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.26, Fig.16]. As Monops brevis.
Female: 16, P5 (posterior view).

Species Pontellopsis brevis - 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.41, Fig.70]. As Monops brevis.
Male: 70, Th5 and urosome (dorsal).

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.26, Figs.35, 36]. As Monops brevis.
Male: 35, P5 (posterior view); 36, left P5 (distal part). Pd = right leg; Ps = left leg; Re = exopod.

Species Pontellopsis brevis - Plate 6 of morphological figures

Plate 6 Issued from : J.M. Bradford-Grieve, E.L. Markhaseva, C.E.F. Rocha & B. Abiahy in South Atlantic Zooplankton, edit. D. Boltovskoy. 1999, Vol. 2, Copepoda; [p.1072, Fig. 7.400: Pontellopsis brevis ]. Ur = urosome; r = right leg; l = left leg.

Female characters (from key, p.960):
- Urosome apparently of 1 somite in dorsal view.
- Genital segment lateral borders not noticably swollen, right side with 2.

Male characters (from key, p.961):
- Posterior prosome corners asymmetrical.
- Left posterior prosome corner extending almost to posterior border of urosomal segment 3; right corner extending half way along anal somite; urosomal somites slightly asymmetrically developed.

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Sewell, 1948 (p.452); Gaudy, 1963 (p.29, Rem.); Björnberg, 1963 (p.60, Rem.); Binet & al., 1972 (p.71); Weikert, 1975 (p.141, chart); Dessier, 1979 (p.207); Turner & al., 1979 (p.289, 292, Tab.3, Rem.); Turner & Collard, 1980 (p.527, Tab.1); Vives, 1982 (p.295); Brenning, 1985 a (p.28, Table 2); 1987 (p.30, Rem.); Lopes & al., 1998 (p.195); Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p.111); Waggett, 2005 (p.17, Table 3.3, behaviour); Waggett & Buskey, 2008 (p.111, fig.3, Table 1); Miyashita & al., 2009 (p.815, Tabl.II); Medellin-Mora & Navas S., 2010 (p.265, Tab. 2); in CalCOFI regional list (MDO, Nov. 2013; M. Ohman, comm. pers.); Beltran Castro, 2014 (p.38, Table 1)

Distribution

NZ: 5

Distribution map of Pontellopsis brevis by geographical zones

Localisations

Geographical glossary

Congo, G. of Guinea, Ivorian shelf, Roxo Cap, Dakar, Cape Verde Is., off Mauritania, Brazil (S, off Rio de Janeiro, Paranagua, off Rio de Janeiro), Caribbean Sea, Venezuela, Caribbean Colombia, Belize, Yucatan (Ascension Bay), G. of Mexico, Atlant. (tropical); NE Pacif. (Gulf of California, in Beltran Castro, 2014)

Quotations

N: 30

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(16) F: 2,53-2; M: 2,15-1,79; (35) F: 2,22-2,04; M: 1,86; (46) F: 2,3-2,2; M: 1,9-1,8; (237) M: 1,98; (244) F: 2,2; (354) M: 1,94; {F: 2,00-2,53; M: 1,79-2,15}

Remarks

Considered by Fleminger (1956) to be synonymous with the Indo-Pacific species P. villosa Brady, 1883.

Last update : 20/01/2016

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