Copilia mediterranea - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Copilia mediterranea Claus, 1863 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Order Cyclopoida

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Family Sapphirinidae

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Genus Copilia

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Synonymy

Saphirinella mediterranea Claus, 1863 (p.154, figs.M);
Copilia denticulata (M) : Giesbrecht, 1892 (p.647, part. p. 657, figs.M); Corral-Estrada, 1970 (p.233, figs.M, no F);
Copilia oblonga : Giesbrecht, 1891; 1892 (p.648, 657, Descr.F, fig.F); Furuhashi, 1961 a (p.110); 1965

References

List of the studied authors

Steuer, 1907 (p.898, fig.M); Pesta, 1920 (p.644); Lehnhofer, 1926 (p.127, 137, figs.F,M); Rose, 1933 a (p.323, figs.F,M); Sewell, 1947 (p.270); Moore, 1949 (p.64); Razouls, 1972 (p.95, Annexe: p.125); Björnberg & al, 1981 (p.673, figs.F,M); Boxshall, 1998 (p.228); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.887, 972, figs.F,M); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.653); Avancini & al., 2006 (p.142, Pl. 110, figs.F,M, Rem.); Vives & Shmeleva, 2010 (p.356, figs.F,M, Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : J. Corral Estrada in Tesis Doct., Univ. Madrid, A-129, Sec. Biologicas, 1970. [Lam.58, figs.2-3]. As Copilia denticulata.
Male (from Canarias Is.): 2, A2; 3, Mxp.

Plate 2 issued from : A. Steuer in Zool. Zh., 1907, 31 (26). [p.899, Fig.1].
Male: 1, Mxp.

Species Copilia mediterranea - Plate 3 of morphological figures

Plate 3 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf. 50, Fig.2 ]. As Copilia denticulata.
Male: 2, habitus (dorsal).

Species Copilia mediterranea - Plate 4 of morphological figures

Plate 4 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.50 , Figs.38, 43 ]. As Copilia denticulata.
Male: 38, A2; 43, Mxp.

Species Copilia mediterranea - Plate 5 of morphological figures

Plate 5 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.50 , Fig.27 ]. As Copilia denticulata.
Male: 27, exopod of P1.

Plate 6 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. - Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf. 50, Fig.31 ]. As Copilia oblonga.
Male: 31, A2.

Species Copilia mediterranea - Plate 7 of morphological figures

Plate 7 issued from : C. Lehnhofer in Wiss. Ergebn. dt. Tiefsee-Exped. ''Valdivia'', 1926, 23 (1). [p.137, Textfig.14].
Female: 1, habitus (dorsal); 2, urosome (dorsal); 3, A2 (segment 3); 4, P4.

Species Copilia mediterranea - Plate 8 of morphological figures

Plate 8 issued from : C. Lehnhofer in Wiss. Ergebn. dt. Tiefsee-Exped. ''Valdivia'', 1926, 23 (1). [p.128, Textfig.6].
Male: 1, A2; 2, A2 (detail of segment 3); 3, distal end of segment 4 of A2; 4, Mxp.

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Rose, 1925 (p.153); Massuti Alzamora, 1942 (p.105, Rem.); Sewell, 1948 (p.394); V.N. Greze, 1963 a (tabl.2); Duran, 1963 (p.26); Giron-Reguer, 1963 (p.60); Björnberg, 1963 (p.90, Rem.); De Decker, 1964 (p.15, 21, 28); De Decker & Mombeck, 1964 (p.12); Pavlova, 1966 (p.45); Shmeleva, 1965 b (p.1350, lengths-volume -weight relation); Neto & Paiva, 1966 (p.35, Table III); Chakroun, 1966 (p.67, Tableau); Mazza, 1966 (p.74); 1967 (p.367); Ehrhardt, 1967 (p.743, geographic distribution, Rem.); Evans, 1968 (p.12); Dowidar El-Maghraby, 1970 (p.267); Deevey, 1971 (p.224); Apostolopoulou, 1972 (p.329, 380); Boxshall, 1977 b (p.557); Tranter, 1977 (p.596, 599); Deevey & Brooks, 1977 (p.156, tab.2, Station "S"); Vaissière & Séguin, 1980 (p.23, tab.2); Vives, 1982 (p.296); Kovalev & Shmeleva, 1982 (p.86); Scotto di Carlo & al., 1984 (p.1044); Jansa, 1985 (p.108, Tabl.I, II, III, IV); Lozano Soldevilla & al., 1988 (p.61); Lozano, 1991 (p.174); Seguin & al., 1993 (p.23); Böttger-Schnack, 1997 (p.409); Hure & Krsinic, 1998 (p.89, 104); Gilabert & Moreno, 1998 (tab.1, 2); Moraitou-Apostolopoulou & al., 2000 (tab.I); Zerouali & Melhaoui, 2002 (p.91, Tableau I); Vukanic, 2003 (p.139, tab.1); Daly Yahia & al., 2004 (p.366, fig.4); Lo & al., 2004 (p.89, tab.1); Isari & al., 2006 (p.241, tab.II); Khelifi-Touhami & al., 2007 (p.327, Table 1); C.-Y. Lee & al., 2009 (p.151, Tab.2); Williamson & McGowan, 2010 (p.273, Table 3, Pacific central gyres: N and S); Mazzocchi & Di Capua, 2010 (p.429); Andersen N.G. & al., 2011 (p.71, Fig.3: abundance); Salah S. & al., 2012 (p.155, Tableau 1); Belmonte & al., 2013 (p.222, Table 2, abundance vs stations); Benedetti & al., 2016 (p.159, Table I, fig.1, functional characters); El Arraj & al., 2017 (p.272, table 2);

Distribution

NZ: 10

Distribution map of Copilia mediterranea by geographical zones

Distribution map of Copilia mediterranea for the Zone Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea

Distribution map of Copilia mediterranea for the Zone Indian Ocean

Distribution map of Copilia mediterranea for the Zone China Seas, Vietnam

Additional Maps & Charts

Map 5 issued from : C. Lehnhofer in Wiss. Ergebn. dt. Tiefsee-Exped. ''Valdivia'', 1926, 23 (1). [p.162, Textfig.27].
Zoogeographical distribution of C. mediterranea.

Localisations

Geographical glossary

South Africa (E), off W Namibia, SW Atlant., Angola (Baia Farta), G. of Guinea, Cape Verde Is., Canary Is., Cap Ghir (Morocco), off Madeira, Brazil, off Amazon, Barbada Is., Sargasso Sea, off Bermuda (Station "S"), Medit. (Alboran Sea, Algiers, Gulf of Annaba, Castellon, Baleares, Banyuls, Ligurian Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea, Strait of Messina, Gulf of Taranto, Malta, Tripoli, N & S Adriatic Sea, Ionian Sea, Aegean Sea, Lebanon Basin, Alexandria), G. of Oman, Arabian Sea, Maldive Is., Indian, Bay of Bengal, W Australia, Viet-Nam, China Seas (East China Sea), Taiwan (N: Mienhua Canyon, NW), Japan (off Honshu), Pacif. (tropical), Pacific (central gyres: N and S)

Quotations

N: 72

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(46) F: 3,8-3,4; M: 5,2-4,2; (180) M: 5,4-5,1; (237) F: 4,0; M: 5,5; (703) F: 4,4-3,2; M: 6,1-4,5; (786) F: 4,16-2,85; M: 6,2-5,2; (794) ? F: 4,2-1,6; M: 6; {F: 2,85-4,40; M: 4,20-6,20}

Remarks

Epi-mesopelagic. Overall depth Range in Sargasso Sea: 0-1000 m (Deevey & Brooks, 1977, Station "S");
After Björnberg (1963, p.90) this species is rare, registered in very saline, under 21.3°C surface waters.

Last update : 28/10/2022

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