Oithona aruensis - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Oithona aruensis Früchtl, 1923 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Order Cyclopoida

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Family Oithonidae

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Genus Oithona

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Synonymy

Oithona brevicornis aruensis : Früchtl, 1923 (p.454); 1924 b (p.66); Wellershaus, 1970 (p.478, Rem.F);
O. brevicornis minor : Nishida & al., 1977 (p.131);
O. brevicornis Uchima, 1979 (p.59); Oithona sp 1: Nishida, 1981 (p.149)

References

List of the studied authors

Herbst, 1964 (p.156); Nishida & Ferrari, 1983 (part., p.74, Descr.F, M, figs.F,M, Rem.); Ferrari & Orsi, 1984 (p.119); Ueda, 1985 (p.125); Nishida, 1985 a (p.17, 38, 141); 1986 a (p.914, Rem.); Chihara & Murano, 1997 (p.935, Pl.199,203: F,M); McKinnon, 2000 (p.108, Rem.); Temnykh & Nishida, 2012 (p.425, fig. 2, Table 1, Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 Issued from : A. Temnykh & S. Nishida in Aquatic Inv., 2012, 7 (3). [p.427, Fig.2].
Character comparison between Oithona brevicornis (A-D), O. aruensis (E-G), and O. davisae (H-K).
A, E, H: rostrum; B, F, I: Md; C, G, J: Mx1, indicating distal-most spine (thin arrow) of 1st inner lobe, endopod (arrowhead), seta on 2nd inner lobe (dotted arrow, absent in J) and seta on 2nd basal segment (thick arrow, absent in J); D: genital double-somite and next somite, lateral view, indicating rows of hairs (arrows) in O. brevicornis; K: genital double-somite, lateral view. Not at scale. After Nishida (1985: A-D), Nishida & Ferrari (1983: E-G) and Ferrari & Orsi (1984: H-K).

Species Oithona aruensis - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 Issued from : A. Temnykh & S. Nishida in Aquatic Inv., 2012, 7 (3). [p.428, Table 1].
Characteristics in O. aruensis adult female.

Nota: Compare with the species O. wellershausi, O. brevicornis, O. davisae, and O. davisae from the Black Sea.

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Nagasawa & Marumo, 1984 (p.277); McKinnon & Klumpp, 1998 (tab.1); Ueda, 2001 (p.96, occurrence); Ohtsuka & al., 2008 (p.115, Table 5); Saitoh & al., 2011 (p.85, Table 4, 5); Chew & Chong, 2011 (p.127, Table 3, abundance vs location); Zamora-Terol & Saiz, 2013 (p.376, Rem.: Table 3, egg production, Table 5: fecundity); Ohtsuka & Nishida, 2017 (p.565, Table 22.1);

Distribution

NZ: 5

Distribution map of Oithona aruensis by geographical zones

Distribution map of Oithona aruensis for the Zone China Seas, Vietnam

Additional Maps & Charts

Species Oithona aruensis - Distribution map 3

Map 3 Issued from : S. Nishida in Bull. Ocean Res. Inst., Univ. Tokyo, 1985, No 20. [p.141, Fig.93].
Indo-Pacific geographical distribution of Oithona aruensis and Oithna davisae.

Map 4 Issued from : S. Zamora Terol in Tesis Doc. Univ. Politèc. Catalunya, 2013 [p.82-83, Table 3].
Comparison of egg production and clutch sizes among different species of Oithona from field and lab studies.
b: eggs per sac.

Map 5 Issued from : S. Zamora Terol in Tesis Doc. Univ. Politèc. Catalunya, 2013 [p.82-83, Table 3].
Comparison of egg production and clutch sizes among different species of Oithona from field and lab studies.
b: eggs per sac.
Also, see: Oithona attenuata, O. colcarva, O. davisae, O. nana, O. plumifera, O. setigera, O. similis, O. simplex.

Localisations

Geographical glossary

Straits of Malacca (upper and lower Sangga estuary), NE Australia (Haughton Riv.), Indonesia-Malaysia (Aru Is.), Palau Is., China Seas, Okinawa (Kabira Bay, lagoons), Japan (Tokyo Bay)

Quotations

N: 11

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(625) F: 0,435-0,415; (866) F: 0,44-0,46; M: 0,4-0,41; {F: 0,415-0,460; M: 0,400-0,410}

Remarks

See in Oithona robertsoni Table 2 from McKinnon (2000, p.108).
After Temnykh & Nishida (2012, p.429)O. aruensis is an estuarine species while O. brevicornis is more stenohaline and distributed in more saline waters than the former, although their distributions may partially overlap.

Last update : 29/09/2020

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