Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Diaptomoidea ( Superfamily )
        Candaciidae ( Family )
            Candacia ( Genus )
Candacia falcifera  Farran, 1929   (F,M)
Ref.:
Farran, 1929 (p.210, 270, figs.F,M); Jespersen, 1934 (p.118, figs.M); Hardy & Gunther, 1935 (p.183); Vervoort, 1951 (p.147, Rem.); 1957 (p.142, Rem.); Grice, 1963 (p.176, 181, Rem., figs.F,M); Razouls, 1994 (p.176, figs.F,M)
Species Candacia falcifera - Plate 1 of morphological figuresissued from : G.P. Farran in British Antarctic (\"Terra Nova\") Expedition, 1910. Natural History Reports. Zoology. Vol. VIII. Crustacea, 1929. [p.271, Fig.28].
Female: a, habitus (dorsal view); b, distal part of cephalosome and urosome (dorsal view); c, Mx2; d, fifth foot.
Male: e, distal part of prosome and urosome (dorsal view); f, feeth feet.


Species Candacia falcifera - Plate 2 of morphological figuresIssued from : C. Razouls in Ann. Inst. océanogr., Paris, 1994, 70 (1). [p.176]. Caractéristiques morphologiques de Candacia falcifera femelle et mâle adultes.
Terminologie et abbréviations: voir à Calanus propinquus.

Nota: Cette espèce est proche de C. longimana. La présence caractéristique d'une coloration noire aux extrémités des pattes natatoires ne semble pas toujours assurée.

Compl. Ref.:
Hardy & Gunther, 1935 (1936) (p.183, Rem.: rare); Sewell, 1948 (p.506, 512, 514, 525, 549); Harding, 1974 (p.141, tab. 2, gut contents); Hopkins & Torres, 1988 (tab.1); Razouls & al., 2000 (p.343, tab. 4, Appendix); Hunt, 2004 (p.1, 74); Park & Ferrari, 2009 (p.143, Table 4, fig.2, Appendix 1, biogeography
NZ: 3

Distribution map of Candacia falcifera by geographical zones
Species Candacia falcifera - Distribution map 3
Chart of 1996
Species Candacia falcifera - Distribution map 4issued from : W. Vervoort in B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Reseach Expedition, Reports - Ser. B, Vol. III, 1957 [Fig.132]
Chart showing the geographical distribution in the seas surrounding the Antarctic continent.
Nota: In this chart the area frequented by whaling vessels has been hatched. The Antarctic circle (66°.5 S) has been drawn as a broken line. The numbers I to VI refer to the sectors into which the Antarctic seas are divided according to Mackintosh (1942) (after Vervoort, 1951).
Species Candacia falcifera - Distribution map 5Issued from : E.T. Park & F.D. Ferrari in A selection from Smithsonian at the Poles Contributions to International Polar year. I. Krupnik, M.A. Lang and S.E. Miller, eds., Publs. by Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington DC., 2009. [p.167, Fig.2.]
Distribution of selected pelagic calanoids Candacia falcifera of the Southern Ocean and the closest relative in the subarctic region of the Arctic Ocean.
Loc:
Antarct. (Peninsula, SW Atlant., Weddell Sea, South Georgia, SE Atlant., Indian, SW Pacif.), Atlant. tropical (11°N, 37°W) (in Wilson, 1942 a, p.31, 175), Sargasso Sea : off E Cape Cod (42°N, 64°30'W, in Harding, 1974), Greenland (Davis Strait) (in/em> Jespersen, 1934)
N: 11 (Antarct.: 8; Atlant. N: 3)
Lg.:
(25) F: 3,92; (31) F: 3,91; (35) F: 3,7; M: 3,5-3,33; (49) M: 3,8-3,3; {F: 3,70-3,92; M: 3,30-3,80}

The mean female size is 3.843 mm (n = 3; SD = 0.1242), and the mean male size is 3.483 mm (n = 4; SD = 0.2293). The size ratio (male : female) is about 0.91.
Rem.: Meso-bathypelagic.
Sampling depth (Antarct.) : 300-1000 m. In vertical tow 2000-1000 m (Harding, 1974).
The presence of this species in the north Atlantic needs confirmation.
Last update : 29/01/2017
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