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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Pseudoamallothrix cenotelis  Park, 1980   (F)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Clausocalanoidea
Family Scolecitrichidae
Genus Pseudoamallothrix

Synonymy

Scolecithricella cenotelis Park, 1980 (p.59, Descr.F, figs.F); Bradford & al., 1983 (p.103, 109: Rem.); Hopkins, 1985 (p.197, Table 1, gut contents); Hopkins & Torres, 1988 (tab.1); Razouls & al., 2000 (p.343, tab. 2, 5, Appendix); Schnack-Schiel & al., 2008 (p.1046: Tab.2); Park & Ferrari, 2009 (p.143, Table 3, 7: common deep water species, fig.1, Appendix 1, biogeography); Michels & al., 2012 (p.369, Table 1, occurrence frequency);
S. cenotelis : Ward & al., 1995 (p.195, Table 2);

References

Vyshkvartzeva, 1999 (2000) (p.228, Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : T. Park in Antarct. Res. Ser. Washington, 1980, 31 (2). [p.62, Fig.18].. As Scolecithricella cenotelis.
Female: a, habitus (lateral left side); b, forehead (lateral); c, last thoracic segment and urosome (lateral left side); d, genital segment (lateral left side); e, rostrum (anterior); f, A2; g, Md; h, Mx1; i, distal part of Mx2; j, Mxp; k, P1 (anterior); l, P2 (posterior); m, P3 (posterior); n, P5 (posterior).

Nota: The distal end of the spermathecal vesicle looks like an empty vacuole.
Plate 2 Issued from : C. Razouls in Ann. Inst. océanogr., Paris, 1994, 70 (1). [p.199]. As Scolecithricella cenotilis.
Caractéristiques morphologiques de Psdeudoamallothrix cenotalis femelles adultes.
Terminologie et abbréviations: voir à Calanus propinquus.

Complementary References

Kuriyama & Nishida, 2006 (p.293, 299: Tab.II; fig.7, 10, vertical distribution, Rem.: p.313).

Distribution

NZ: 3

Distribution map of Pseudoamallothrix cenotelis by geographical zones


Localisations

Antarct. (Weddell Sea, SW Atlant., Indian, S & SE Pacif., Croker Passage) , sub-Antarct. (South Georgia, Indian, SE Pacif.), Japan (Sagami Bay)

Quotations

N: 10

Dimensions (mm)

(523) F: 2,34-1,96; (1000) F: 2,2 ± 0,1; {F: 1,96-2,34}

Remarks

mesopelagic.
For Park (1980, p.60) this species agrees with Scolecithricella ovata in all anatomical detais except for the spermatheca. The specific name cenotelis refers to the distal end of the spermathecal vesicle, which looks like an empty vacuaole.
Last update : 18/01/2021

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