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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Scolecithricella marginata  Giesbrecht, 1888   (F)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Clausocalanoidea
Family Scolecitrichidae
Genus Scolecithricella

Synonymy

Scolecithrix marginata Giesbrecht, 1888; 1892 (p.266, 285, 775, figs.F); Giesbrecht & Schmeil, 1898 (p.44, Rem. F); Bradford, 1973 (p.142); Bradford & al., 1983 (p.103)

References

A. Scott, 1909 (p.91, Rem.F); Wilson, 1942 a (p.207, figs.F, anormalité); Grice, 1962 (p.211, figs.F); Madhupratap & Haridas, 1990 (p.312); Rosales & Sepulveda, 1992 (p.38); Vyshkvartzeva, 1999 (2000) (p.234)

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. 13 , Fig.10 ]. As Scolecithrix marginata.
Female: 10, Mx1 (part., posterior view).
Re = exopod; Ri = endopod; B = basipod.
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. 13, Fig. 31]. As Scolecithrix marginata.
Female: 31, P5.
Plate 3 issued from : G.D. Grice in Fish. Bull. Fish Wildl. Serv., 1962, 61. [p.210, Pl.18, Figs.2-9].
Female (from E equatorial Pacific): 2-3, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); 4, rostrum; 5, P1; 6, P2; 7, P3; 8, P4; 9, P5.
Plate 4 issued from : G.D. Grice in Fish. Bull. Fish Wildl. Serv., 1962, 61. [p.210, Pl.18, Figs.2-9].
Female (from E equatorial Pacific): 2-3, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); 4, rostrum; 5, P1; 6, P2; 7, P3; 8, P4; 9, P5.

Complementary References

Sewell, 1948 (p.349, 557, 561,567, 568); Fagetti, 1962 (p.25); Björnberg, 1973 (p.332, 389); Guangshan & Honglin, 1984 (p.118, tab.); Longhurst, 1985 (tab.2: comme narginata); Jimenez-Perez & Lara-Lara, 1988; Madhupratap & Haridas, 1990 (p.305, fig.5: vertical distribution night/day; fig.7: cluster); Gopalakrishnan & Balachandran, 1992 (p.167, figs.1, 5, Table 1, 2); Padmavati & al., 1998 (p.349); Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p.111); Fernandez-Alamo & al., 2000 (p.1139, Appendix); Uysal & al., 2002 (p.18, tab.1); Morales-Ramirez & Suarez-Morales, 2008 (p.522);

Distribution

Additional Maps & Charts

Map 5 issued from : T.C. Gopalakrishnan & T. Balachandran in Oceanogr. Indian Ocean, 1992. [p.171, fig.5, C].
Distribution of Scolecithricella marginata in the Indian Ocean.
Nota: Main occurences between 25° N - 10° S.
Map 6 Issued from : M. Madhupratap & P. Haridas in J. Plankton Res., 12 (2). [p.312, Fig.5].
Vertical distribution of calanoid copepod (mean +1 SE), abundance No/100 m3. 50- Scolecithricella marginata.
Night: shaded, day: unshaded.
Samples collected from 6 stations located off Cochin (India), SE Arabian Sea, November 1983, with a Multiple Closing Plankton Net (mesh aperture 300 µm), in vertical hauls at 4 depth intervalls (0-200, 200-400, 400-600, 600-1000 m).

Localisations

E Medit. (Lebanon Basin) (in Uysal & al., 2002), Arabian Sea, NW Indian, Indonesia-Malaysia, China Seas (East China Sea), Pacif. (W equatorial), Pacif. (equatorial), off E Hawaii, G. of California, G. of Tehuantepec, off W Guatemala, W Costa Rica, off N Chile, off Valparaiso

Quotations

N: 12

Dimensions (mm)

(47) F: 1; (101) F: 1,05-1; {F: 1,00-1,05}

Remarks

Uysal & al. (2002) confirm for the first time this species in the Mediterranean.
Last update : 16/06/2020

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