Temorites elongata - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Temorites elongata Sars, 1905 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Order Calanoida

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Superfamily Bathypontioidea

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Family Bathypontiidae

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Genus Temorites

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Synonymy

Bathypontia elongata Sars, 1905 c (p.24, Rem.F); Farran, 1908 b (p.87, figs.M); Sars, 1925 (p.356, figs.F,M); Rose, 1933 a (p.266, figs.F,M); Jespersen, 1940 (p.68); Lysholm & al., 1945 (p.42); Vervoort, 1965 (p.195, Rem.); Grice & Hulsemann, 1967 (p.19, 38, figs.M); Deevey, 1973 a (p.367, figs.F,M) ; Björnberg, 1976 (p.202, figs.F, Rem.); Deevey, 1979 (p.739, Rem.); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.886, 964, figs.F,M);
Ref. compl.: Sewell, 1948 (p.505); C.B. Wilson, 1950 (p.171); Roe, 1972 (p.277, tabl.1, tabl.2); Deevey & Brooks, 1977 (p.156, tab.2, Station "S"); Vives, 1982 (p.295); Lozano Soldevilla & al., 1988 (p.60); Lapernat, 2000 (tabl.3, 4); Holmes, 2001 (p.40) ? Isocalanus major Wolfenden, 1906 (p.37); 1911 (p.347, figs.juv.); ? Bathypontia major: Grice & Hulsemann, 1967 (p.19, 39)

References

List of the studied authors

Bradford-Grieve, 1999 b (p.21, figs.F,M, Rem., figs.170,189); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.73: figs.F); Vives & Shmeleva, 2007 (p.396, figs.F,M, Rem., as elongatus); Andronov, 2014 (p.32, fig.M)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : J.M. Bradford-Grieve in The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic Calanoid Copepoda. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, 111, 1999. [p.18, Fig.4].
Female: habitus (left lateral side); B, A1; C, A2; D, Md (mandibular blade); E, Md (mandibular palp); F, Mx1; G, Mx2; H, Mxp; I, P1; J, P2; K, P3; L, P4; M, P5.

Species Temorites elongata - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 issued from : J.M. Bradford-Grieve in The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic Calanoid Copepoda. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, 111, 1999. [p.19, Fig.5].
Male: A, habitus (left dorsolateral view); B, right A1; C, A2; D, Md (mandibular blade); E, Md (mandibular palp); F, Mx1; G, Mx2; H, Mxp; I, P1; J, P2; K, P3; L, P4; M, P5.

Species Temorites elongata - Plate 3 of morphological figures

Plate 3 issued from : G.D. Grice & K. Huisemann in Proc. U.S. natn. Mus., 1967, 122 (3583). [p.65, Figs.271-274]. As Bathypontia elongata.
Male (from Indian Ocean): 271, 5th thoracic segment and urosome (lateral left side); 272, forehead (lateral); 273, right P5; 274, left P5. (R = right, L = left)

Species Temorites elongata - Plate 4 of morphological figures

Plate 4 Issued from : G.O. Sars in Résult. Camp. Scient. Prince Albert I, 69, pls.1-127 (1924). [Pl.CXXVI, figs.1-17]. As Bathypontia elongata.
Female: 1, habitus (dorsal); 2, idem (lateral left side); 3, forehead (lateral); 4, rostrum; 5, A1; 6, A2; 7, Md; 8, Mx1; 9, Mx2; 10, Mxp; 11, P1; 12, basipodal segments of P2; 13, P3; 14, P5; 15, anal segment and caudal rami.

Male: 16, right A1; 17, P5.

Species Temorites elongata - Plate 5 of morphological figures

Plate 5 issued from : T.K.S. Bjornberg inBolm. Zool. Univ. S. Paulo, 1976, 1. [p.199, Figs.10, 11]].
Female (from 30-31°S & 72°W): 10, rostrum (lateral); 11, idem (frontal view).
Scale bar: 0.10 mm.
Nota: Rostrum bifurcated, ending in 2 points and having 2 preterminal median small protuberances which are not registered in Sars' (1924) drawings.

Species Temorites elongata - Plate 6 of morphological figures

Plate 6 issued from : T.K.S. Bjornberg inBolm. Zool. Univ. S. Paulo, 1976, 1. [p.201, Figs.18-23].
Female: 18, posterior border of metasome and 1st urosome segment (lateral right side); 19, idem (lateral left side); 20, labrum, mandible blade and labial armature (lateral left side); 21, Md (mandibular blade); 22, Mxp; 23, P5.
Scale bar: 1 mm (19); 0.20 mm (18, 21, 22); 0.10 mm (20, 23).
Nota: 5th thoracic segment asymmetrical with the left posterior border rounded and the right postrior border indented

Species Temorites elongata - Plate 7 of morphological figures

Plate 7 issued from : R.N. Wolfenden in Die Marinen Copepoden der Deutschen Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903, 1911. [Pl.XXXVIII, Figs.3-5]. As Isocalanus major. With doibt after Deevey (1979, p.739).
Female: 3, mxp; 4, Mx2; 5, structure from a setal portion on Mx2.

Species Temorites elongata - Plate 8 of morphological figures

Plate 8 issued from : G.B. Deevey in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1973, 86, N°30. [p.366, Fig.4,c,d,e]. As Bathypontia elongata.
Male (from 32°10'N, 64°30'W): c, P5; d-e, habitus (lateral and dorsal, respectively).
Scale bars in mm.

Species Temorites elongata - Plate 9 of morphological figures

Plate 9 issued from : G.B. Deevey in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1973, 86, N°30. [p.368, Fig.5,a,b,d,h]. As Bathypontia elongata.
Female: a-b, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); d, rostrum (lateral); h, P5.

Plate 10 issued from : G.P. Farran in Fish. Ire. Sci. Invest., 1906, II [1908]. [Pl. IX, Figs.16-17]. As Bathypontia elongata..
Male (from W Ireland): 16, A1; 17, P5.

Plate 11 Issued from : V.N. Andronov in Russian Acad. Sci. P.P. Shirshov Inst. Oceanol. Atlantic Branch, Kaliningrad, 2014. [p.32, Fig.6].
Right geniculate A1 of Temorites elongata male (original illustration by V.F. Grudina).

Species Temorites elongata - Plate 12 of morphological figures

Plate 12 Issued from : V.N. Andronov in Russian Acad. Sci. P.P. Shirshov Inst. Oceanol. Atlantic Branch, Kaliningrad, 2014. [p.44, Fig.12, 4]. Temorites elongata after Sars, 1924.
Female P1.

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Sewell, 1948 (p.505); C.B. Wilson, 1950 (p.171); Roe, 1972 (p.277, tabl.1, tabl.2); Vives, 1982 (p.295); Lozano Soldevilla & al., 1988 (p.60); Lapernat, 2000 (tabl.3, 4); Holmes, 2001 (p.40)

Distribution

NZ: 11

Distribution map of Temorites elongata by geographical zones

Distribution map of Temorites elongata for the Zone Indian Ocean

Distribution map of Temorites elongata for the Zone China Seas, Vietnam

Additional Maps & Charts

Species Temorites elongata - Distribution map 4

Map 4 Chart of 1996

Species Temorites elongata - Distribution map 5

Map 5 issued from : G.B. Deevey in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1979, 92 (4). [p.729 Fig.3]. Station locations in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico for 6 species of Bathypontia (= Temorites).

Localisations

Geographical glossary

G. of Guinea, ? Cape Verde Is., off NW Cape Verde Is., Caribbean, G. of Mexico, off Bermuda (Station "S"), Sargasso Sea, Canary Is., off Morocco-Mauritania, off Portugal, Bay of Biscay, Azores, off W Ireland, S Iceland, W Indian, S China Sea, N New Zealand, NE Marquesas Is., off E Easter Is., off Galapagos, N Chile

Quotations

N: 17

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(1) F: 5,3; (16) F: 5,5-5,2; M: 5,53-5,4; (67) M: 4,68; (199) F: 5,55; M: 5,55-5,3; (316) F: 5,2-4,7; M: 5,1-5; (317) F: 5,6-5,2; M: 5,2-4,9; (318) F: 6,15; {F: 4,70-6,15; M: 4,68-5,55}

Remarks

bathypelagic. Sargasso Sea: 500-1500 m (Deevey & Brooks, 1977, Station "S");
For Deevey (1979, p.725) the mature females are length over 4 mm; the last segment of P5 little longer than preceding segment; genital segment slightly longer than following segment.

Last update : 26/12/2017

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By Mariluz Fernandez de Puelles 2017-11-17 10:48:03 ( Citation of this remark )

I found a female of Temorites elongata at 1000-2000 m depth in the geographical position long:-115.7725;lat:13.7653. The cephalosoma was not well but could be about 6 mm long