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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Tortanus (Atortus) tropicus  Sewell, 1932   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Diaptomoidea
Family Tortanidae
Sub-Genus Atortus

References

Sewell, 1932 (p.400, figs.F,M); 1948 (p.324); Bowman, 1971 a (p.527); Silas, 1972 (p.650); Francis & Bijoy Nandan, 2019 (p.433, Table 4, 5).

Figures

Plate 1 Issued from : R.B.S. Sewell in Mem. Indian Mus., 1932, X (continued). [p.402, fig.131].
Female (from Nicobar Is.): a, habitus (dorsal); b, Md; c, Mx1; d, Mxp; e, P5.

Male: f, grasping A1; g, P5.
Plate 2 Issued from : S.V. Francis & S. Bijoy Nandan in Turkish J. Zool., 2019, 43. [p.434, Table 4].
Differential diagnosis of T. tropicus female. Compare with other species of the subgenus Atortus species from the Indian Ocean.

Morphological characters female:
- Genital compound somite with a small bulge on the left side. Caudal rami asymmetrical with left ramus stouter and right ramus slightly curved. P5 with spine at distal end.
Plate 3 Issued from : S.V. Francis & S. Bijoy Nandan in Turkish J. Zool., 2019, 43. [p.435, Table 5].
Differential diagnosis of T. tropicus male. Compare with other species of the subgenus Atortus species from the Indian Ocean.

Morphological characters female:
- Right P5 basis bearing small rounded process.

Complementary References

Othman, 1987 (p.72); Ohtsuka, 1992 a (p.265); Nishida & Cho, 2005 (p.232, Fig.4: chart); Maiphae & Sa-ardrit, 2011 (p.641, Table 2, 3, Rem.)

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Tortanus (Atortus) tropicus by geographical zones


Localisations

NE Indian (Octavia Bay, Nankauri Harbour), Andaman Sea

Quotations

N: 2

Dimensions (mm)

(44) F: 2,71; M: 2,289; {F: 2,71; M: 2,29}

Remarks

in surface tow-net.
For Nishida & Cho (2005, p.229) this species belongs in the subgenus Atortus to the ''species complex tropicus''.
Last update : 11/02/2020

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