Sapphirina darwini - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Sapphirina darwini Haeckel, 1864 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Order Cyclopoida

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Family Sapphirinidae

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Genus Sapphirina

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Synonymy

Sapphirina aureofurca Giesbrecht, 1891

References

List of the studied authors

Haeckel, 1864 (p.105, figs.F); Giesbrecht, 1892 (p.619, 644, 775, figs.F,M); A. Scott, 1909 (p.254, Rem.); Lehnhofer, 1929 (p.295, figs.F,M, Rem.); Rose, 1933 a (p.317, figs.F,M); Mori, 1937 (1964) (p.126, figs.F); Lysholm & al., 1945 (p.43); Chiba & al., 1957 (p.310); 1957 a (p.12); Crisafi & Mazza, 1966 (p.567, 569, 594, figs.F,M, Rem.); Crisafi, 1966 (p.660, fig. Juv.); Corral Estrada, 1970 (p.231); Chen & al., 1974 (p.49, figs.F,M); Chae & Nishida, 1994 (p.205, 208, integumental structure, pattern color); Chihara & Murano, 1997 (p.989, Pl.230: F,M); Conway & al., 2003 (p.234, figs.F,M, Rem.); Vives & Shmeleva, 2010 (p.369, figs.F,M, Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : Q.-c Chen & S.-z. Zhang & C.-s. Zhu in Studia Marina Sinica, 1974, 9. [Pl.12, Figs.5-9].
Female (from China Seas): 5, habirus (dorsal); 6, A2; 7, endopodite segment 3 of P2.

Male: 8, habitus (dorsal); 9, A2.

Species Sapphirina darwini - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 issued from : P. Crisafi & J. Mazza in Atti Soc. pelorit. Sci. fis. mat. nat., 1966, XII (3/4). [p.595, Fig.18].
Female (from Strait of Messina): A, habitus (dorsal); B, distal portion of A1.

Species Sapphirina darwini - Plate 3 of morphological figures

Plate 3 issued from : P. Crisafi & J. Mazza in Atti Soc. pelorit. Sci. fis. mat. nat., 1966, XII (3/4). [p.596, Fig.19].
Male: habitus (dorsal).

Species Sapphirina darwini - Plate 4 of morphological figures

Plate 4 issued from : J. Chae & S. Nishida in Mar. Biol., 1994 (119). [p.207, Fig.2, A, C].
Male: Scanning electron microscopy photographs of platelets from dorsal integument.
A, honeycomb arrangement; C, idem at high magnification.

Nota: Color observed with reflected (R) and transmitted light (T): Yellow, occasionally purple in lateral margin (R); no data (T).

Species Sapphirina darwini - Plate 5 of morphological figures

Plate 5 issued from : T. Mori in The Pelagic copepoda from the neighbouring waters of Japan, 1937 (1964). [Pl. 68, Figs.12-16].
Female: 12, habitus (dorsal); 13, A2; 14, A1; 15, P4; 16, P2.

Species Sapphirina darwini - Plate 6 of morphological figures

Plate 6 issued from : C. Lehnhofer in Wiss. Ergebn. dt. Tiefsee-Exped. ''Valdivia'', 1929, 22 (5). [p.295, Fig.29, 1-3a].
Female: 1, A1; 2, A2; 3a, caudal ramus.
L: maximal length; W: maximal width; T: terminal spines.

Species Sapphirina darwini - Plate 7 of morphological figures

Plate 7 issued from : C. Lehnhofer in Wiss. Ergebn. dt. Tiefsee-Exped. ''Valdivia'', 1929, 22 (5). [p.295, Fig.29, 1-3a].
Female: 1, A1; 2, A2; 3a, caudal ramus.
L = length; W = width; T = terminal spines.

Plate 8 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 19, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.53, Fig.3].
Female: 3, A1.

Species Sapphirina darwini - Plate 9 of morphological figures

Plate 9 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 19, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.52, Figs.59, 63].
Male: 59, habitus (dorsal); 63, caudal rami (dorsal).

Species Sapphirina darwini - Plate 10 of morphological figures

Plate 10 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 19, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.53, Fig.33].
Male: 33, A2.

Species Sapphirina darwini - Plate 11 of morphological figures

Plate 11 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 19, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.53, Fig.57].
Male: 57, P4 (endopod).

Species Sapphirina darwini - Plate 12 of morphological figures

Plate 12 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 19, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.54, Fig.35].
Male: 35, Mxp.

Species Sapphirina darwini - Plate 13 of morphological figures

Plate 13 Issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 19, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.54, Fig.67].
Male: 67, Mx1.

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Wilson, 1942 a (p.206); El-Maghraby, 1965 (p.58, Appendix); Neto & Paiva, 1966 (p.34, Table III); Delalo, 1968 (p.139); Deevey, 1971 (p.224); Tranter, 1977 (p.596, 599); Dessier, 1979 (p.208); Rajaram & Krishnaswamy, 1980 a (p.154); Vives, 1982 (p.296); Kovalev & Shmeleva, 1982 (p.86); Guangshan & Honglin, 1984 (p.118, tab.); Jimenez-Perez & Lara-Lara, 1988; Lozano Soldevilla & al., 1988 (p.61); Yoo, 1991 (tab.1); Shih & Young, 1995 (p.77); Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p.113); Fernandez-Alamo & al., 2000 (p.1139, Appendix); Suarez-Morales & al., 2000 (p.751, tab.1); Hwang & al., 2003 (p.193, tab.2); Lo & al., 2004 (p.89, tab.1); Hwang & al., 2006 (p.943, tabl. I); Ayon & al., 2008 (p.238, Table 4: Peruvian samples); W.-B. Chang & al., 2010 (p.735, Table 2, abundance); Mazzocchi & Di Capua, 2010 (p.429); in CalCOFI regional list (MDO, Nov. 2013; M. Ohman, comm. pers.); Ben Ltaief & al., 2017 (p.1, Table III, Summer relative abundance); Jerez-Guerrero & al., 2017 (p.1046, Table 1: temporal occurrence)

Distribution

NZ: 13

Distribution map of Sapphirina darwini by geographical zones

Distribution map of Sapphirina darwini for the Zone Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea

Distribution map of Sapphirina darwini for the Zone Indian Ocean

Distribution map of Sapphirina darwini for the Zone China Seas, Vietnam

Localisations

Geographical glossary

Angola (Baia Farta), off Congo, Canary Is., off N Brazil, Yucatan, Bermuda, off N Bermuda, Medit. (W Basin, Ligurian Sea, Napoli, Messina, G. of Gabes, N & S Adriatic Sea, Egyptian coast), Red Sea, Madagascar, Indian, Nicobar Is., W Australia, Indonesia-Malaysia, China Seas (Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea), Taiwan (S, SW, N: Mienhua Canyon), Japan, Bikini Is., W Baja California, G. of California, W Mexico, G. of Tehuantepec, Pacif. (W equatorial), Bahia Cupica (Colombia), Peru, Chile (in Björnberg, 1973, p.370, 389, as S. opalina-darwini)

Quotations

N: 39

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(46) F: 2,6; M: 3,15-2,7; (91) F: ± 2,4; (109) F: 3,2-2; M: 3,4-2,6; (705) F: 3,017-2,753; M: 3,583-3,319; (805) F: 2,79-1,2; M: 2,79-2; (866) F: 3,16-2; M: 3,52-2,24; (991) F: 2-2,79; M: 1,2-2,79; {F: 1,20-3,20; M: 1,20-3,58}

Remarks

Lehnhofer (1929, p.295) considers this form as a variation of Sapphirina opalina, position followed by Boxshall & Halsey (2004, p. 653).

See in DVP Conway & al., 2003 (version 1)

Last update : 05/04/2018

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