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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Haloptilus plumosus  Claus, 1863   (F,M)
Taxonomy
Order Calanoida
Superfamily Arietelloidea
Family Augaptilidae

Synonymy

Hemicalanus plumosus Claus, 1863 (p.178, figs.F,M); Giesbrecht, 1892 (p.384, 397, 398, 773); T. Scott, 1894 b (p.33, figs.);
Haloptilus plumulosus : Vinogradov, 1968 (1970) (p.79)

References

Giesbrecht & Schmeil, 1898 (p.119, Rem.); A. Scott, 1909 (p.141, Rem.); Wolfenden, 1911 (p.323); Farran, 1926 (p.287, Rem.F, juv.); Rose, 1933 a (p.215, fig.M); Matthews, 1972 (p.53); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.883, 941, figs.F,M); Lapernat & Razouls, 2002 (p.17, Pl.VI: Md); Vives & Shmeleva, 2007 (p.247, figs.F,M, Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : J.M. Bradford-Grieve, E.L. Markhaseva, C.E.F. Rocha & B. Abiahy in South Atlantic Zooplankton, Ed. D. Boltovskoy, 1999, 2. [p.1044, Fig. 7278].
Female: A, Mx1; B, Mx2; C, Mxp.
Nota: Endopodite of Mx1 with 4 setae; exopodite with 8 setae; outer lobe 1 with 6 setae.

Male: D, P5 (r = right leg; L = left leg).
Plate 2 issued from : P.E. Lapernat & C. Razouls in Vie Milieu, 2002, 52 (1). [p.28, Pl. VI, fig.13].
Masticatory edge of Md gnathobase female (from off Malta, Mediterranean Sea).

Nota: Itoh's index: 4706 (number of teeth : 2).
Plate 3 issued from : P.E. Lapernat & C. Razouls in Vie Milieu, 2002, 52 (1). [p.23, Pl. III, fig.3].
Biting edge of Md gnathobase female (from off Malta, Mediterranean Sea).

Complementary References

Sewell, 1948 (p.350, 504, 509, 516, 548, 550, 551, 558, 559, 567); Wilson, 1942 a (p.189); Fagetti, 1962 (p.31); Gaudy, 1963 (p.27, Rem.); Mazza, 1966 (p.72); Delalo, 1968 (p.138); Deevey, 1971 (p.224); Deevey & Brooks, 1977 (p.156, tab.2, Station "S"); Vaissière & Séguin, 1980 (p.23, tab.1); Vives, 1982 (p.293); Kovalev & Shmeleva, 1982 (p.84) ; Lapernat, 1999 (p.9, 55); Lapernat & Razouls, 2001 (p.123, tab.1); Mazzocchi & Di Capua, 2010 (p.424); Belmonte, 2018 (p.273, Table I: Italian zones)

Distribution

NZ: 10

Distribution map of Haloptilus plumosus by geographical zones


Localisations

off N Tristan da Cunha, G. of Guinea, off Cape Verde Is., Moroccà-Mauritania, Brazil, off Madeira, Sargasso Sea, off Bermuda (Station "S"), Bay of Biscay, Medit. (Ligurian Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea, Messina, off Malta, S Adriatic Sea), Red Sea, G. of Aden, Indonesia-Malaysia (Molucca Sea), Pacif. (tropical), SE Easter Is., off Chile

Quotations

N: 13

Dimensions (mm)

(38) F: 4,15; (340) F: 4,2; {F: 4,15-4,20}

Remarks

epi- bathypelagic. Known to occur at depths of less than 100 to more than 1000 m (Matthews, 1972). Sargasso Sea: 0-1000 m (Deevey & Brooks, 1977, Station "S");
This form resembles H. ornatus.
Last update : 05/02/2020

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