Pontellopsis tenuicauda - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Pontellopsis tenuicauda 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 tenuicauda Giesbrecht, 1889; 1892 (p.487, 496, 773, figs.F)

References

List of the studied authors

Giesbrecht & Schmeil, 1898 (p.148, Rem. F); Mori, 1937 (1964) (p.98, figs.F,M); Shen & Bai, 1956 (p.222, figs.F,M); Yamazi, 1958 (p.152, Rem.); Chen & Zhang, 1965 (p.106, 131: Rem., figs.F,M); Kos, 1972 (Vol. I, figs.F, M, Rem.); Silas & Pillai, 1973 (1976) (p.850, Rem.); Zheng Zhong & al., 1984 (1989) (p.256, figs.F,M); Ohtsuka & Onbé, 1991 (p.214); Kim & al., 1993 (p.270); Chihara & Murano, 1997 (p.872, Pl.157,159: F,M); Mulyadi, 2002 (p.147, figs.M, Rem.); Suarez-Morales & Kozak, 2012 (p.1, key F,M: p.14, fig.F,M).

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Plate 1 issued from: Q.-c Chen & S.-z. Zhang in Studia Marina Sinica, 1965, 7. [Pl.46, 9-14].
Female (from E China Sea): 9, habitus (dorsal); 10, idem (lateral right side); 11, P5 (posterior).

Male: 12, habitus (dorsal); 13, right A1; 14, P5 (posterior).

Species Pontellopsis tenuicauda - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 issued from : C.-j. Shen & S.-o. Bai in Acta Zool. sin., 1956, 8 (2). [Pl.VI, Figs.42-46].
Female (from Chefoo): 42, habitus (dorsal); 43, P5.

Male: 44, urosome (dorsal); 45, right A1; 46, P5.

Species Pontellopsis tenuicauda - 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.41, Fig.61]. As Monops tenuicauda.
Female: 61, habitus (dorsal).

Species Pontellopsis tenuicauda - 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, 43]. As Monops tenuicauda.
Female: 43, Th5 and urosome (dorsal).

Species Pontellopsis tenuicauda - Plate 5 of morphological figures

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, Fig.31]. As Monops tenuicauda.
Female: 31, P5 (anterior view).

Species Pontellopsis tenuicauda - Plate 6 of morphological figures

Plate 6 issued from : T. Mori in The pelagic Copepoda from the neighbouring waters of Japan, 1937 (2nd edit., 1964). [Pl.46, Figs.6-12].
Female: 6, P5; 8, habitus (dorsal); .

Male: 7, A2; 9, habitus (dorsal); 10, P5; 11, left A1; 12, P1.

Species Pontellopsis tenuicauda - Plate 7 of morphological figures

Plate 7 issued from : Mulyadi in Treubia, 2002, 32; [p.148, Fig.54].
Male (from Flores Sea): a, habitus (dorsal); b, metasomal somite 5 and urosome (dorsal); c, P5.

Nota: The present specimen differs with the previous description from Giesbrecht (1889), Mori (1937), Chen & Zhang (1965) in having: the right posterolateral end of prosome modified into a short process and provided with an inner median process; the right margin of urosomal somite 1 produced into a stout process; the exopodite segment 2 with 2 setae and 1 small outer spine.

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Sewell, 1948 (p.419); Anraku & Azeta, 1965 (p.13, Table 2, fish predator); Chen Q-c, 1980 (p.795); Hernandez-Trujillo, 1989 (tab.1); 1989 a (tab.1); Cervantes-Duarte & Hernandez-Trujillo, 1989 (tab.3); Yoo, 1991 (tab.1); Dai & al., 1991 (tab.1); Hernandez-Trujillo, 1994 (tab.1); Myung & al., 1994 (tab.1); Shih & Young, 1995 (p.72); Mauchline, 1998 (p.506); Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p.111); Hsieh & Chiu, 1998 (tab.2); Hwang & al., 2006 (p.943, tabl. I); Dur & al., 2007 (p.197, Table IV); Ohtsuka & al., 2008 (p.115, Table 5); Tseng L.-C. & al., 2008 (p.46, table 2, abundance vs moonsons, fig.8); Kâ & Hwang, 2011 (p.155, Table 3: occurrence %); (NE)in CalCOFI regional list (MDO, Nov. 2013; M. Ohman, comm. pers.); Ohtsuka & Nishida, 2017 (p.565, Table 22.1); Palomares-Garcia & al., 2018 (p.178, Table 1: occurrence);

Distribution

NZ: 6

Distribution map of Pontellopsis tenuicauda by geographical zones

Distribution map of Pontellopsis tenuicauda for the Zone Indian Ocean

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

Localisations

Geographical glossary

Indian (Andaman Sea), Indonesia (Lombok Strait), China Seas (Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea, Hong Kong), Formosa Strait (near Amoy), Xiamen Harbour), Taiwan (NE), S Korea, Japan ( Nagasaki, Tanabe Bay, Honshu: Seto Inland Sea), Bikini, W Baja California, La Paz

Type locality: Formosa Strait (near Amoy)

Quotations

N: 45

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(46) F: 1,75-1,55; (91) F: 2,1-1,55; M: ±1,65; (290) F: 1,55-1,75; M: 1,35-1,5; (1087) M: 1,65; {F: 1,55-2,10; M: 1,35-1,65}

Remarks

Neritic.

Last update : 13/11/2020

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