Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Diaptomoidea ( Superfamily )
        Acartiidae ( Family )
            Acartiella ( Genus )
Acartiella major  Sewell, 1919   (F,M)
Syn.: Acartia (Acartiella) major : Sewell, 1932 (p.393); 1934 (p.81); 1948 (p.429); Silas, 1972 (p.650); Wellershaus, 1969 (p.269, 270, figs.F,M)
Ref.:
Sewell, 1919 (p.13, figs.F,M); 1924 (p.791, figs.F); 1948 (p.324, 429); Barthélémy, 1999 (p.857, 861, figs.F)
Species Acartiella major - Plate 1 of morphological figuresissued from : R.B.S. Sewell in Fauna of the Chilka Lake, 1924, 12. [Pl. XLVI, Fig.1].
Female (from Chilka Lake).


Species Acartiella major - Plate 2 of morphological figuresissued from : R.B.S. Sewell in Rec. Indian Mus., (1918) 1919, XYI. [Pl.X, Figs.2-3, 6].
Female (from Chilka Lake): 2, Mx1; 3, Mx2; 6, P5.

Nota: Head and 1st thoracic segment separate, 4th and 5th fused. Posterior thoracic margin rounded and unarmed. Rostrum absent. Proportional lengths of urosomites and furca 39 : 31 : 8 : 22 = 100.The 1st abdominal segment bears a slight rounded prominence posteriorly near the right border. Caudal rami symmetrical. A1 21-segmented (segments 2-4, 8-9, 12-13 fused), there are oblique rows of hairs on segments 7 to 18. Only 2 spines on the margin of the 1st segment of Mxp. P5: each basal segment carries 1 marginal seta; the exopod is long and curved, inner margin serrated ; endopod short being only ¼ the length of the exopod, and it bears 2 or 3 teeth distally on its outer margin.


Species Acartiella major - Plate 3 of morphological figuresssued from : R.B.S. Sewell in Rec. Indian Mus., (1918) 1919, XYI. [Pl.IX, Fig.8].
Male: 8, P5.
Nota: Proportional length of cephalothorax and abdomen 65:35 = 100. Proportional lengths of urosomites and furca 11:21:18:9:5:36 = 100. Caudal rami not quite symmetrical, the right one being slightly longer. Left A1 as in the female; Right A1 modified to form a grasping organ. On the right P5 the basal segment is produced in a double flat process, the outer division being sharply pointed and the inner one rounded and wing-like; Each leg consists of 3 exopodal segments.


Species Acartiella major - Plate 4 of morphological figuresIssued from : S. Wellershaus in Veröff. Inst. Meeresforsch. Bremerh., 1969, 11 (2). [p.269, Fig.55-57]. After Sewell, 1919.
Female: 56, P5; 57, urosome.

Male: 55, P5.
Scale : single line = 0.1 mm ; double line = 0.05 mm.


Species Acartiella major - Plate 5 of morphological figuresissued from : R.-M. Bathélémy in J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K., 1999, 79. [p.858, Fig.1, H].
Scanning electon miccrograph. Female: genital double-somite (ventral).
Scale bar: 0.030mm.
Symbols: gp = gonoporal plate; arrowhead = cuticular folds limiting the genital area; large arrow = opercular pad; small arrow = cuticular excrescence on the septum.

Compl. Ref.:
Madhupratap & Haridas, 1986 (p.105, tab.2)
NZ: 1

Distribution map of Acartiella major by geographical zones
Loc:
India (Chilka Lake, Calcutta, Salt Lakes)
N: 3
Lg.:
(83) F: 1,41; M: 1,25; {F: 1,41; M: 1,25}
Rem.: estuaries, brackish.
Last update : 11/12/2014
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