Mimocalanus crassus - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Mimocalanus crassus Park, 1970 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Order Calanoida

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Superfamily Spinocalanoidea

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Family Spinocalanidae

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Genus Mimocalanus

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Synonymy

Mimocalanus sp. Grice & Hulsemann, 1967 (p.21, figs.M)

References

List of the studied authors

Park, 1970 (p.478, figs.F,M); Razouls, 1974 (1975 a) (p.498, tab. I, II, III; IV); Damkaer, 1975 (p.74, figs.F,M, Rem.); Brodsky & al., 1983 (p.322, figs.F, M, Rem.); Bode & al., 2017 (p.600, Table I, III, fig. 2, 3, 4, morphology vs genetic).

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Plate 1 issued from : D.M. Damkaer in NOAA Technical Report NMFS CIRC-391, Seattle, 1975. [p.75, Fig.181-191; p.63, Fig.161].
Female: 161, terminal segments of A1; 181, habitus (dorsal); 182, idem (right lateral side); 183, masticatory edge of Md; 184, P1; 185, P2; 186, P3; 187, P4.

Male: 188, habitus (dorsal); 189, idem (left lateral side); 190, masticatory edge of Md; 191, P5.

Species Mimocalanus crassus - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 Issued from : T. S. Park in Bull. Mar. Sc., 1970, 20 (2). [p.]179, Figs.1-12].
Female: 1, habitus (dorsal); 2, idem (lateral left side); 3, A2; 4, Md; 5, Mx1; 6, Mx2; 7, Mxp; 8, P1 (anterior).
Nota: Mx1 with 9 setae on outer lobe, 7 setae on basis, and 7+7+9 setae on endopod. Mx2: 1st lobe with 6 setae.

Male: 9, posterior part of metasome and urosome (dorsal); 10, Md; 11, P1 (anterior); 12, P5 (anterior).
Nota: mandible with reduced teeth on cutting edge and 2 setae on basis.

Species Mimocalanus crassus - Plate 3 of morphological figures

Plate 3 issued from : C. Razouls in Vie Milieu, (1974) 1975, 24 (3, sér.A). [p.500, Table I].
Female (after precedent authors) : Chetotaxy of Md. (Si = inner setae; St = terminal setae).

Species Mimocalanus crassus - Plate 4 of morphological figures

Plate 4 issued from : C. Razouls in Vie Milieu, (1974) 1975, 24 (3, sér.A). [p.500, Table II].
Female (after precedent authors) : Chetotaxy of Mx1. (Li = inner lobe: Le = outer lobe; SF =stout setae;

Species Mimocalanus crassus - Plate 5 of morphological figures

Plate 5 issued from : C. Razouls in Vie Milieu, (1974) 1975, 24 (3, sér.A). [p.501, Table III].
Female (after precedent authors) : Chetotaxy of Mx2. (Basi = basipodite; L = lobe; Endo = endopodite).

Species Mimocalanus crassus - Plate 6 of morphological figures

Plate 6 issued from : C. Razouls in Vie Milieu, (1974) 1975, 24 (3, sér.A). [p.502, Table IV].
Female (after precedent authors) : Chetotaxy of Mp. (Basi = basipodite; Ri = endopodite; Si = inner setae; Se = outer seta; St = terminal seta).

Species Mimocalanus crassus - Plate 7 of morphological figures

Plate 7 issued from : G.D. Grice & K. Hulsemann in Proc. U. S. natn.Mus., 1967, 122 (3583). [p.48, Figs.19-25]. As Mimocalanus sp. Male
Male (from Indian Ocean): 19, posterior end of thorax and urosome (lateral); 20, Md; 21, Mx1; 22, Mx2; 23, Mxp; 24, P1; 25, P5.

Species Mimocalanus crassus - Plate 8 of morphological figures

Plate 8 Issued from : V.N. Andronov in Russian Acad. Sci. P.P. Shirshov Inst. Oceanol. Atlantic Branch, Kaliningrad, 2014. [p.85, Fig.22: 10]. Mimocalanus crassus after Park, 1970.
Male P5.

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p.111); Medellin-Mora & Navas S., 2010 (p.265, Tab. 2); Kosobokova & Hopcroft, 2010 (p.96, Table 1, fig.7); Kosobokova & al., 2011 (p.29, Table 2, fig.4, Rem.: Arctic Basins)

Distribution

NZ: 5

Distribution map of Mimocalanus crassus by geographical zones

Distribution map of Mimocalanus crassus for the Zone Indian Ocean

Localisations

Geographical glossary

Caribbean Sea, Caribbean Colombia, G. of Mexico, SE Atlant. (3°N-13°S), W Indian, Arct. (all polar Basins, Canada Basin, Makharov Basin, Amundsen Basin, Nansen Basin)

Quotations

N: 7

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(13) F: 1,27-0,95; M: 1,36-0,78; (67) M: 0,78; (88) F: 1,22-1; M: 1,3; (1252) F: 1,05-1,17; {F: 0,95-1,27; M: 0,78-1,36}.
(1252) F: Pr/Ur = 3,2-3,9.

Remarks

bathypelagic-abyssopelagic.
The species is close in habitus to M. cultrifer Farran (1908).
For Park (1970) the males described by Grice & Hulsemann (1967) from the Indian Ocean seem belong to M. crassus.

Last update : 24/03/2020

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