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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Pontellopsis occidentalis  Esterly, 1906   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Diaptomoidea
Family Pontellidae

References

Esterly, 1906 a (p.76, figs.F,M); Silas & Pillai, 1973 (1976) (p.777); Dawson & Knatz, 1980 (p.8, figs.F,M); Suarez-Morales & Kozak, 2012 (p.1, key F,M).

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : C.O. Esterly in Univ. Calif. Publs Zool., 1906, 3 (5). [Pl.11, Figs.47, 48, 49].
Female (from San Diego, California): 48, last thoracic segment and urosome (dorsal).

Male: 47, urosome (ventral); 49, last thoracic segment (dorsal).
Plate 2 issued from : C.O. Esterly in Univ. Calif. Publs Zool., 1906, 3 (5). [Pl.12, Fig.59].
Male: 59, middle portion of grasping A1 (bristles and aesthetascs not shown).
Plate 3 issued from : C.O. Esterly in Univ. Calif. Publs Zool., 1906, 3 (5). [Pl.13, Fig.68 ].
Female:: 68, P5.
Plate 4 issued from : C.O. Esterly in Univ. Calif. Publs Zool., 1906, 3 (5). [Pl.14, Figs.92, 96].
Male; 92, left P5; 96, right P5.

Complementary References

Sewell, 1948 (p.392); Heinrich, 1964 (p.86: fig.4, p.91: fig.7); Fleminger, 1967 a (tabl.1); Lillelund & Lasker, 1971 (p.664); Brinton & al., 1986 (p.228, Table 1); Hernandez-Trujillo, 1991 (1993) (tab.I); Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p.111); Lavaniegos & Gonzalez-Navarro, 1999 (p.239, Appx.1); Lavaniegos & al., 2012 (p. 11, Appendix); in CalCOFI regional list (MDO, Nov. 2013; M. Ohman, comm. pers.); Beltran Castro, 2014 (p.49, Table 1, 2: molecular CO1); Palomares-Garcia & al., 2018 (p.178, Table 1: occurrence)

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Pontellopsis occidentalis by geographical zones


Localisations

California, W BaJa California, La Paz, Gulf of California, Bahia de los Angeles.

Quotations

N: 7

Dimensions (mm)

(17) F: 3,8; M: 3; {F: 3,80; M: 3,00}
Last update : 13/11/2020

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