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| Cyclopoida ( Order ) |  |  |  
|     Oncaeidae ( Family ) |  |  |  
|         Oncaea ( Genus ) |  |  |  |  |  |  
| | Oncaea zernovi  Shmeleva, 1966   (F,M) |  | 
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Syn.: | Oncaea tenella var. pacifica : Olson, 1949; Oncaea tenella : Malt & al., 1989 (p.953, figs.F, non M)
 |  |  |  |  | Ref.: |  |  |  | Shmeleva, 1966 (p.934, Descr.F, figs.F); 1969 (p.10, figs.F); Malt, 1982 (p.193); Krsinic, 1988 (p.543, Descr.F,M, figs.F,M); Chihara & Murano, 1997 (p.982, Pl.221: F,M); Böttger-Schnack, 2002 (p.1120, Redescr.F,M, figs.F,M, Rem.: p.1124); 2004 (Rem.: p.1067); Vives & Shmeleva, 2010 (p.313, figs.F,M, Rem.); Böttger-Schnack & Machida, 2011 (p.111, Table 1, fig.2, DNA sequences, phylogeny) |  | |  Issued from : R. Böttger-Schnack in  Plankton Res., 2002, 24 (11). [p.1123, Fig.7]. Female (from Adriatic Sea): A, habitus, typical form (dorsal, pore pattern on prosome not fully discerned); B, urosome (dorsal, setae IV and V omitted); C, P2 (posterior, proximal-most outer spine on distal exopod segment arrowed, inner exopodal and endopodal setae partly omitted Female (from NE Atlantic): D, P3 (endopod-3, anterior). Nota: Proportional lengths (%) of urosomites and caudal rami 7.1:64.1:4.6:3.9:11.4:8.9. Male (from Adriatic Sea): E, habitus (dorsal, pore pattern on prosome not fully discerned). Nota: Proportional lengths (%) of urosomites and caudal rami 8.8:55.9:3.9:3.9:3.0:13.7:10.8.
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  issued from : A.A. Shmeleva in  Bull. Inst. océanogr. Monaco, 1969, 68, n° 1393. [p.10, Fig.7]. Female (from S Adriatic Sea): a, habitus (dorsal); b, abdominal segments (dorsal); c, A1; d, A2; e, Mxp; f-i, P1 to P4.
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  issued from : F. Krsinic in  J. Plankton Res., 1988, 10 (3). [p.544, Fig.1]. Female (from S Adriartic): a, habitus (dorsal); b, urosome (dorsal); c, A1; d, A2; e, labrum; f, Md; g, Mx1; h, Mx2.
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  issued from : F. Krsinic in  J. Plankton Res., 1988, 10 (3). [p.546, Fig.2]. Female: a, Mxp; b, P1; c, P2; d, P3; e, P4.
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  issued from : F. Krsinic in  J. Plankton Res., 1988, 10 (3). [p.548, Fig.3]. Male: a, habitus (dorsal); b, urosome (dorsal); c, same (lateral); d, A1; e, A2; f, labrum; g, Md; h, Mx1; i, Mx2.
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  issued from : F. Krsinic in  J. Plankton Res., 1988, 10 (3). [p.549, Fig.4]. Male: a, Mxp; b, P1; c, P2; d, P3; e, P4.
 |  |  |  |  |  |  | Compl. Ref.: |  |  | Kovalev & Shmeleva, 1982 (p.86); Greze & al., 1985 (p.8) ; Böttger-Schnack & al., 1989 (p.1089); Krsinic & Vilicic, 1989 (p.12, tab.3); Böttger-Schnack, 1992 (p.304): 1994 (p.277); 1995 (p.92); 1996 (p.1086); 1997 (p.409); Hure & Krsinic, 1998 (p.104); Krsinic, 1998 (p.1051); Krsinic & Grbec, 2002 (p.127, tab.1); Nishibe & Ikeda, 2004 (p.931, Tab. 2, 4, 5); Humphrey, 2008 (p.85: Appendix A); Selifonova & al., 2008 (p.305, Tabl. 2); Böttger-Schnack & Schnack, 2009 (p.131, Table 3, 4); Nishibe & al., 2009 (p.491, Table 1: seasonal abundance); Selifonova, 2011 a (p.77, Table 1, alien species in Black Sea); Uysal & Shmeleva, 2012 (p.909, Table I); DiBacco & al., 2012 (p.483, Table S1, ballast water transport); Krsinic & Grbec, 2012 (p.57, 63: abundance); Gubanova & al., 2013 (in press, p.4, Table 2) |  |  |  |  | NZ: | 8 |  |  |  |  |   
  			
				
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				  Distribution map of Oncaea zernovi by geographical zones
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Loc: |  |  |  | off E Recife, off Amazon, off Mauritania, NE Atlant., Ibero-moroccan Bay, Medit. (Alboran Sea, Balearic Basin, S Adriatic Sea, Otrante Strait, Ionian Sea, Lebanon Basin, W Black Sea), Red Sea, G. of Aden, Indian (off NW Cape Australia), Japan, Kuroshio & Oyashio regions, California (off Monterey) |  |  |  |  | N: | 22 |  |  |  |  | Lg.: |  |  |  | (690) F: 0,33-0,32; M: 0,31; (702) F: 0,378-0,346; M: 0,324-0,29; (788) F: 0,32-0,31; (832) F: 0,38-0,36; M: 0,32; (866) F: 0,36-0,32; M: 0,31-0,28; (1047) F: 0,32; {F: 0,31-0,38; M: 0,28-0,32} |  |  |  |  | Rem.: | epi-mesopelagic. Depth: 0-100 m.
 This species resembles Oncaea bispinosa.
 According to Krsinic (1988, p.550)  this species is one of the most numerous copepods in the Zdriatic Sea (sampled with a 0.053 mm mesh aperture by a Nansen net). Rudenjak-Lukenda (1985) registered an average of 69 specimens by liter, with a maximum value of 134 ind/l using a 5 l Van Dorn bottle.
 |  |  |  |  | Last update : 18/10/2016 |  |  |  |  | |  |  |  |  |  |  | Oncaea `zernovi` sensu Böttger-Schnack, Hagen & Schnack-Schiel, 2001 is synonymous with Oncaea bispinosa Böttger-Schnack, 2002.
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