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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Acartia (Acartiura) bermudensis  Esterly, 1911   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Diaptomoidea
Family Acartiidae
Sub-Genus Acartiura

References

Esterly, 1911 b (p.224, figs.F,M); Steuer, 1923 (p.11, figs.F,M); Owre & Foyo, 1967 (p.101, figs.F,M); Bradford, 1976 (p.164, Rem.).

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : C.O. Esterly in Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci., 1911, 47 (7). [Pl.1, Fig.1].
Female (from Bermuda Is.): 1, cephalothorax and part of abdomen (dorsal).
Nota: No rostral filaments. Absence of spines on A1. A1 reach back to the end of the genital segment.
Plate 2 issued from : C.O. Esterly in Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci., 1911, 47 (7). [Pl.2, Figs.10, 17, 18].
Female: 10, part of last thoracic segment and urosome (dorsal); 17, idem (lateral), with spermatophore.
Nota: Spines on the posterior border of the last thoracic segment much smaller, shorter and more numerous than in A. spinata. Genital segment almost as long as the rest of the urosome. Caudal rami about a third longer than wide

Male: 18, last thoracic segment and urosome (lateral).
Nota: The ventral goup of spines on the border of the last thoracic segment is replaced by hairs. Genital segment three-fifths as long as the 2nd segment, the 2nd a little longer than the 3rd and three times as long as the 4th. The length of the cephalothorax (along the mid-dorsal line) 3-times its gratest width.
Plate 3 issued from : C.O. Esterly in Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci., 1911, 47 (7). [Pl.3, Fig.22].
Male: 22, P5.
Plate 4 issued from : C.O. Esterly in Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci., 1911, 47 (7). [Pl.4, Fig.43].
Female: 43, P5.

Complementary References

Sewell, 1948 (p.465); Suarez & al., 1990 (tab.2); Suarez, 1992 (App.1).

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Acartia (Acartiura) bermudensis by geographical zones


Localisations

NW Atlant. (Bermuda : Is Agar, Florida), G. of Mexico (off Tampico)

Quotations

N: 5

Dimensions (mm)

(146) F: ± 0,86; M: ± 0,93; {F: 0,86; M: 0,93}

Remarks

For Esterly (1911 b, p.225) the species belongs to the clausi-discaudata group.
? Perhaps synonym of Acartia tonsa
Last update : 22/09/2014

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