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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Tortanus (Acutanus) compernis  Gonzalez & Bowman, 1965   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Diaptomoidea
Family Tortanidae
Sub-Genus Acutanus

References

Gonzalez & Bowman, 1965 (p.259, figs.F,M); Ohtsuka, 1992 a (p.260, figs.F,M)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : S. Ohtsuka in Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 1992, 105 (2). [p.262, Fig.5].
Female (from Bahia Fosforescente, Puerto Rico): B, anal somite and caudal rami (dorsal); D, P5 (posterior).

Male: G, urosome (dorsal); H-I, posterolateral process of 2nd urosomal somite (dorsal); K, P5 (anterior).
Plate 2 issued from : S. Ohtsuka in Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 1992, 105 (2). [p.262, Fig.5 C].
Male: grasping portion of right A1.
Nota: An arrowhead means an anterodistal process of segment 17 (compare with T. setacaudartus and T. angularis).

Complementary References

Bowman, 1971 a (p.521)

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Tortanus (Acutanus) compernis by geographical zones


Localisations

NW Atlant. (Puerto Rico)

Quotations

N: 2

Dimensions (mm)

(179) F: 1,19-1,14; M: 1,08-1,02; {F: 1,14-1,19; M: 1,02-1,08}
Last update : 01/02/2015

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