Temorites minor - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Species Card of Copepod

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Temorites minor (Wolfenden, 1906) (F,M)

Abbreviations or symbols

Syn.:

Isocalanus minor Wolfenden, 1906 (p.36); 1911 (p.349, figs.F);
Bathypontia minor : Grice & Hulsemann, 1965 (p.225, 249, figs.F); no Owre & Foyo, 1967 (p.100, figs.F); Park, 1970 (p.478, 541, Descr.M, figs.M); Deevey, 1973 a (p.365, figs.F,M); 1979 (p.736, figs.F,M);
Ref. compl. Sewell, 1948 (p.505); De Decker & Mombeck, 1964 (p.11); 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); Shih & Young,1995 (p.68)

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List of the studied authors )

Bradford-Grieve, 1999 b (p.21)

Species Temorites minor - Plate 1 of morphological figures

issued from : G.D. Grice & K. Hulsemann in J. Zool., 1965, 146. [p.250, Fig.19, e-q].
Female (from NE Atlant. and Sargasso Sea): e, 5th thoracic segment and urosome (lateral right side); f, rostrum (lateral); g, A2; h, Md (mandibular palp); i, Md (cutting edge); j, Mx1; k, Mx2; l, Mxp; m, P1; n, P2; o, P3; p, P4; q, P5.
Nota: f to m from specimens collected at 26°N, 65°W (approximately 1000 m)

Species Temorites minor - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Issued from : T. S. Park in Bull. Mar. Sc., 1970, 20 (2). [p.539, Figs.372-377] As Bathypontia minor.
Male (from Caribbean Sea & G. of Mexico): 372, habitus (dorsal); 373, left A1; 374, forehead (lateral); 375, posterior part of metasome and anterior part of urosome (lateralleft side); 376, rostrum (anterior view); 377, A2.

Nota: Head and 1st thoracic segment separate, 4th and 5th separate.
Prosome about 3 times length of urosome.
Rostrum elongate, broad, and distally rounded bearing 2 minute points.
A1 slightly shorter than body; right A1 geniculated.
A2: Exopod as long as endopod; exopod of A2 7-segmented, 2nd to 6th segments each with 1 seta.

Species Temorites minor - Plate 3 of morphological figures

Issued from : T. S. Park in Bull. Mar. Sc., 1970, 20 (2). [p.540, Figs.378-385]. As Bathypontia minor.
Male: 378, Md; 379, Mx1; 380, Mx2; 381, Mxp; 382, P1 (anterior); 383, P2 (anterior); 384, P3 (2nd and 3rd exopodal segments broken off), anterior; 385, P5 (posterior).

Nota: Md: mandibular blade with a strong basal seta arising subterminally and perpendicular to the blade.
Mx1: 2nd and 3rd inner lobes and basis each with 1 seta; exopod well developed with 10 setae; outer lobe without setae; endopod absent.
Distal portion of Mx2 with 6 equal, strong setae in adition to 5 small setae of different length; proximal portion bearing medially a patch of spinules, and distally two lobes with 1 and 3 setae, respectively.
P1 with endopod 1-segmented and exopod 3-segmented.
In P2 and P3, 1st and 2nd endopodal segments partially fused. Basis of P3 with a strong external spine extending beyond distal end of 1st exopodal segment.
P5 uniramous and 5-segmented; middle three segments of right leg much longer than three corresponding segments of left leg.

Species Temorites minor - Plate 4 of morphological figures

issued from : R.N. Wolfenden in Die Marinen Copepoden der Deutschen Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903, 1911. [p.349, Fig.78]. As Isocalanus minor.
Female (from Cape Verde Islands): a, habitus (dorsal); b, P5.

issued from : R.N. Wolfenden in Die Marinen Copepoden der Deutschen Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903, 1911. [Pl.XXXVIII, Figs.6-8]. As Isocalanus minor.
Female: 6, Mx2; 7, structure of portion setal of Mx2; 8, Mxp.
Nota: P5 with single apical spine, no accessory spine.; apical spine about 4 times as long as distal segment.

issued from : G.B. Deevey in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1979, 92 (4). [p.740, Fig.9]. As Bathypontia minor.
Female: j, Md (masticatory edge); k, basal segments of Mx2.

Male: m, Mxp.

Scale in mm.

Species Temorites minor - Plate 7 of morphological figures

issued from : G.B. Deevey in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1973, 86, N°30. [p.364, Fig.3, a,b,d,e,h,i]. As Bathypontia minor.
Female (from 32°10'N, 64°30'W): a-b, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); e, P5.
Nota: P5 symmetrical, very long distal spine, no accessory spines

Male: d, P5, h-i, habitus (lateral and dorsal, respectively).
Nota: P5 notably asymmetrical, very long distal spine, no accessory spine.

NZ:

Distribution map of Temorites minor by geographical zones

Distribution map of Temorites minor for the Zone Indian Ocean

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

Species Temorites minor - Distribution map 2

issued from : G.B. Deevey in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1979, 92 (4). [p.734, Fig.6].
Station locations for Bathypontia similis = Temorites simolis shown by black stars, for B. minor : Temorites minor by black circle.

Loc:

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Geographical glossary )

South Africa (E), off W Cape Verde Is., Canary Is., off Canary Is., Caribbean Sea, G. of Mexico, Sargasso Sea, off Bermuda (Station "S"), off W Azores, China Seas (South China Sea, in Shih Young, 1995; W. Zhang & al., 2010)

Lg.:

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References of the authors concerning dimensions )

(10) F: 2,6; (88) F: 2,68; M: 2,48; (199) F: 2,58; M: 2,51-2,36; (316) F: 2,8-2,5; M: 2,45-2,3; (317) F: 2,8-2,65; M: 2,4; {F: 2,50-2,80; M: 2,30-2,51}

Rem.:

bathypelagic. Sargasso Sea: 0-1500 m (Deevey & Brooks, 1977, Station "S")

Last update : 09/12/2020


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