Acartiella faoensis - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Acartiella faoensis Khalaf, 1991 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Order Calanoida

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Superfamily Diaptomoidea

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Family Acartiidae

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Genus Acartiella

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Synonymy

Acartia (Acartiella) faoensis Khalaf, 1991 (p.80, figs.F,M); 2007 (p.179, figs. Juv.1-5); Al-Yamani & al., 2011 [p.88, figs.F,M)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : T.A. Khalaf in Marina Mesopotamica, 1991, 6 (1). [p.84].
Female: proportional lengths of segments of A1.

Nota: A1 22-segmented; none of the segments with spines.
Basipod 1 of P5 fused medially, basipod 2 twice as long as wide with a single long plumose seta inserted at about 0.8 the distance along the lateral margin, te outer marginal seta of the same length as the exopod; both exopod and endopod present, exopod with a sharp point and bearing a single seta-like spine on its external margin at about the junction of the middle and distal thirds.

Plate 2 issued from : T.A. Khalaf in Marina Mesopotamica, 1991, 6 (1). [p.83].
Female: proportional lengths of urosome segments and right caudal ramus (furcal branch).

Nota: All abdominal segments devoided of spines.

Plate 3 issued from : T.A. Khalaf in Marina Mesopotamica, 1991, 6 (1). [p.84].
Male: proportional lengths of segments of right A1.

Nota: Right A1 17-segmented; modified to form a grasping organ; segment 12 with 1 sharp spine, segment 17 with rows of small spines on the distal marginal corner. P1-P4 as in the female.

Plate 4 issued from : T.A. Khalaf in Marina Mesopotamica, 1991, 6 (1). [p.84].
Male: proportional lengths of urosome segments and right caudal ramus.

Species Acartiella faoensis - Plate 5 of morphological figures

Plate 5 issued from : T.A. Khalaf in Marina Mesopotamica, 1991, 6 (1). [p.86, Table 1].
Comparison list of characters of A. faoensis and A. kempi females.
Ri = endopod; Re = exopod.

Species Acartiella faoensis - Plate 6 of morphological figures

Plate 6 issued from : M. Ali, Al-Yamani F. & Khalaf T.A. in Crustaceana, 2009, 82 (8). [Fig.4].
Female (from 29°53'24.6''N, 48°09'29.8''E): a-b, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); e, P5.

Male: c-d, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); f, P5.

Scale bars: a-d, 0.2 mm; e-f, 0.1 mm.

Species Acartiella faoensis - Plate 7 of morphological figures

Plate 7 issued from : Y. Al-Yamani, V. Skryabin, A. Gubanova, S. khvorov & I. Prusova in Marine Zooplankton Practical Guide for the Northwestern Arabian Gulf, 2, 201. [p.89, Fig.224]; As .
Female (from Kuwait): a-b, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); c, urosome (dorsal).

Plate 8 issued from : Y. Al-Yamani, V. Skryabin, A. Gubanova, S. khvorov & I. Prusova in Marine Zooplankton Practical Guide for the Northwestern Arabian Gulf, 2, 2011. [p.89, Fig.225]; As Acartia (Acartiella) faoensis
Male: a-b, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); c, P5.

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Ajeel & Khalaf, 1995 (p.137)

Distribution

NZ: 1

Distribution map of Acartiella faoensis by geographical zones

Distribution map of Acartiella faoensis for the Zone Indian Ocean

Localisations

Geographical glossary

NW Arabian Gulf (Khor Al-Zubair & Khor Abdulla)

Quotations

N: 3

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(949) F: 0,9-1,15; M: 0,9-1; (1085) F: 1,0-1,28; M: 0,95-1,2; {F: 0,90-1,28; M: 0,90-1,20}

Remarks

For Khalaf (1991, p.85) the present species together with Acartiella kempi (Sewell, 1914) from the Gulf of Mannar differ from all other species of the genus in that the male has a well developed chela on the right P5 with the basipod drawn out to work with the exopod, but female and male differ each other by the characteristics shown in tables 1 and 2.

Last update : 11/12/2014

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By Mohammad Ali 2010-07-02 16:04:59 ( Citation of this remark )
This species (female, male and juveniles) was also reported from around Bubiyan Island in the north of Kuwait, an area that is very close to the area reported by Khalaf, 1991 and for more details,Â it is possible toÂ refer to:Â
Ali, M., F. Al-Yamani and T. A. Khalaf. 2009. Observation of Acartia (Acartiella) faoensis (Copepoda, Calanoida, Acartiidae) near Bubiyan Island in the north of Kuwait. Crustaceana 82 (8): 1073-1077.

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By Mohammad Ali 2010-07-02 16:04:59 ( Citation of this remark )

This species (female, male and juveniles) was also reported from around Bubiyan Island in the north of Kuwait, an area that is very close to the area reported by Khalaf, 1991 and for more details,Â it is possible toÂ refer to:Â Ali, M., F. Al-Yamani and T. A. Khalaf. 2009. Observation of Acartia (Acartiella) faoensis (Copepoda, Calanoida, Acartiidae) near Bubiyan Island in the north of Kuwait. Crustaceana 82 (8): 1073-1077. Â