Metacalanus aurivilli - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Metacalanus aurivilli Cleve, 1901 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Order Calanoida

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Superfamily Arietelloidea

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Family Arietellidae

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Genus Metacalanus

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Synonymy

Metacalanus aurivillii Cleve, 1901 (p.43, figs.F,M); Sewell, 1914 a (p.228);
Scottula ambariakae Binet & Dessier, 1968 (p.21); Frontier, 1977 a (p.15)

References

List of the studied authors

Thompson & Scott, 1903 (p.243, figs.F,M); A. Scott, 1909 (p.146, Rem.F,M); Sewell, 1932 (p.330); 1948 (p.345); Kasturirangan, 1963 (p.37, 42, figs.F,M); Chen & Zhang, 1965 (p.87, figs.F,M); Saraswathy, 1966 (1967) (p.80, fig.F, Rem.); Greenwood, 1978 (p.5, figs.F,M, Rem.); Zheng & al., 1982 (p.60, figs.F,M); Campaner, 1984 (p.102, 104, 107, figs.F,M, Rem); Ohtsuka, 1984 (p.364, Rem.); 1985 (p.305, Rem.); Bradford-Grieve,1999 b (p.36, figs.F,M, Rem., fig. 189); Conway & al., 2003 (p.179, figs.F,M, Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from: Q.-c Chen & S.-z. Zhang in Studia Marina Sinica, 1965, 7. [Pl.34, 11-14].
Female (from E China Sea): 11, habitus (dorsal); 12, P5 (posterior).

Male: 13, habitus (dorsal); 14, P5 (posterior).

Species Metacalanus aurivilli - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 issued from : J.G. Greenwood in Proc. R. Soc. Qd, 1978, 89. [p.6, Fig.2].
Female (from Moreton Bay, E Australia): a, habitus (dorsal); b, idem (lateral right side); e-h, P1-P4 respectively; i, P5.

Male: c, urosome (dorsal); d, posterior part of prosome with P5 in situ and urosome (lateral left side); j, P5.

Species Metacalanus aurivilli - Plate 3 of morphological figures

Plate 3 issued from : Z. Zheng, S.J. Li & B. Chen in Marine planktonic copepods in Chinese waters. Shanghai Sc. & Techn. Press. [p.61, Fig.34].
Female: a, habitus (dorsal); b, P5.
Male: c, habitus (dorsal); d, P5.

Scale bars in mm.

Species Metacalanus aurivilli - Plate 4 of morphological figures

Plate 4 issued from : M. Saraswathy in Proc. Symp. Crustacea.- Symp. Ser. mar. biol. Ass. India, 1966, 2 (1). [p.82, Fig.1 (3)].
Female (from Trivandrum coast, SW India): 3, P5.

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Krishnaswamy, 1953 (p.127); Ganapati & Shanthakumari, 1962 (p.9, 15); Subbaraju & Krishnamurphy, 1972 (p.25, Table 1: periods of abundance vs India localities); );Patel, 1975 (p.659); Madhupratap & Haridas, 1986 (p.105, tab.1); Othman & al., 1990 (p.561, 564, Table 1); Godhantaraman, 1994 (tab.7); Shih & Young, 1995 (p.67); Achuthankutty & al., 1998 (p.1, Table 2, seasonal abundance vs monsoon); Satapoomin & al., 2004 (p.107, tab.4); Dur & al., 2007 (p.197, Table IV); Ohtsuka & al., 2008 (p.115, Table 6); Cornils & al., 2010 (p.2076, Table 3); Maiphae & Sa-ardrit, 2011 (p.641, Table 2); Chew & Chong, 2011 (p.127, Table 3, abundance vs location); Tseng L.-C. & al., 2011 (p.47, Table 2, occurrences vs mesh sizes); Jagadeesan & al., 2013 (p.27, Table 3, 5, fig.11, seasonal variation);

Distribution

NZ: 4

Distribution map of Metacalanus aurivilli by geographical zones

Distribution map of Metacalanus aurivilli for the Zone Indian Ocean

Distribution map of Metacalanus aurivilli for the Zone China Seas, Vietnam

Localisations

Geographical glossary

India (Goa, Saurashtra coast, Trivandrum coast, South, Cochin, Sri Lanka, Gulf of Mannar, Palk Bay, Lawson's Bay, Madras, Mandapam, Visakhapatnam), Madagascar, Nosy Bé, Nicobar Is., Straits of Malacca (Sangga estuary, mainly nearshore), off Phuket, Indonesia-Malaysia, SW Celebes, Viet Nam, China Seas (East China Sea, South China Sea), Taiwan (SW), Australia (E, G. of Carpentaria)

Quotations

N: 26

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(5) F: 0,65; M: 0,5; (290) F: 0,6-0,55; M: 0,5; (530) F: 0,6; M: 0,5; (795) F: 0,6; M: 0,5; (991) F: 0,55-0,64; M: 0,53-0,56; (1023) F: 0,53-0,56; M: 0,66-0,69; {F: 0,53-0,65; M: 0,50-0,69}

Remarks

euryhaline, epipelagic.
For Ohtsuka (1984, p.364) the comparison between the figures from Ceymon by Thompson & Scott (1903) and from the East China Sea by Chen & Zhang (1965), there are a few differences (presence of setae on the 2nd segments of P5 in male, and the characteristics of setae on terminal segments of P5 female). It is probable that Thompson & Scott overlooked the presence of setae on the 2nd segments of P5 male.
According to Greenwood (1978, p.5) because of its small size, the geographical distribution is perhaps under-estimated.
See in DVP Conway & al., 2003 (version 1)

Last update : 07/02/2020

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