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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Pseudodiaptomus tollingerae  Sewell, 1919   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Diaptomoidea
Family Pseudodiaptomidae
Genus Pseudodiaptomus

Synonymy

Pseudodiaptomus tollingeri Sewell, 1919 (p.2, figs.F,M); 1924 (p.787, fig.F); 1932 (p.241); Silas, 1972 (p.649); Grindley, 1984 (p.219, fig.M); 198 6 a (p.503); Sarkar & al., 1986 (p.178);
Schmackeria tollingeri : Marsh,1933 (p.48, fig.M)

References

Sewell, 1948 (p.323, 367, 429, Rem.); Pillai, 1976 (1980) (p.250, figs.F); Ranga Reddy & Radhakrishna, 1982 (p.265, Redescr.F,M, figs.F,M); Dussart & Defaye, 1983 (p.32); Madhupratap & Haridas, 1986 (p.105, tab.2); Walter, 1986 (p.132); 1987 (p.367); Mitra & al., 1990 (fig.3); Tiwari & Nair, 1993 (p.67); Srinui & al., 2013 (p.30)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : R.B.S. Sewell in Fauna of the Chilka Lake, 1924, 12. [Pl. XLV, Fig.3]. As Pseudodiaptomus tollingeri.
Female.
Plate 2 issued from : R.B.S. Sewell in Rec. Indian Mus., (1918) 1919, XYI. [Pl.X, Fig.8]. As Pseudodiaptomus tollingeri.
Male (from Chilka Lake): 8, P5.
Plate 3 issued from : P.P. Pillai in J. mar. biol. Ass. India, 1976 (1980), 18 (2). [p.249, Fig.1, j-l].
Female: j, urosome (dorsal); k, P5.

Male: l, P5.
Plate 4 Issued from : Y. Ranga Reddy & Y. Radhakrishna in Hydrobiologia, 1982, 87. [p.266, Plate IV].
Female (from 16°32'-16°47'N, 81°4'-81°22'E): 1, habitus (dorsal); 2, posterior part of prosome and urosome (lateral); 3, rostral spines; 4, A1; 5, A2; 6, Md; 7, Mx1; 8, Mxp; 9, 9a & 9b, Mxp and its modified setae on segment 3 & 5.
Plate 5 Issued from : Y. Ranga Reddy & Y. Radhakrishna in Hydrobiologia, 1982, 87. [p.267, Plate V, Figs. 10-13].
Female: 10, P1; 11, P2; 11 a, exopodite of P2, with middle segment abnormally carrying 2 external spines; 12, P3; 13, P4.
Plate 6 Issued from : Y. Ranga Reddy & Y. Radhakrishna in Hydrobiologia, 1982, 87. [p.267, Plate V, Fig.14].
Female : 14, P5.
Plate 7 Issued from : Y. Ranga Reddy & Y. Radhakrishna in Hydrobiologia, 1982, 87. [p.267, Plate V, Figs. 15-18].
Male: 15, posterior part of prosome and urosome (dorsal); 16, right A1; 17 & 18, right & left P5

Complementary References

Achuthankutty & al., 1998 (p.1, Table 2, seasonal abundance vs monsoon); Madhu & al., 2007 (p.54, Table 4, abundance vs monsoon)

Distribution

NZ: 2

Distribution map of Pseudodiaptomus tollingerae by geographical zones


Localisations

India (Bombay, Kerala, Goa, Cochin Backwaters, Chilka Lake, Gangeting Delta (Port Canning), Mindarmani creek, Salt Lakes, Calcutta, Pondicherrry (lagoon), Hooghly estuary), Lake Kolleru, Manuguluru, Burma, Andaman Is., Thailand

Quotations

N: 13

Dimensions (mm)

(83) F: 1,34; M: 1,2; (1005) F: 1,39-1,45; M: 1,16; (1193) F: 1,46-1,60; M: 1,19-1,26; {F: 1,34-1,60; M: 1,16-1,26}

Remarks

Limnetic & brackish, estuary.
Incomplete data.
In Lobus species group (poppei subgroup) after Walter & al. 2006, p.203.
Last update : 02/03/2016

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