Metridia discreta - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Metridia discreta Farran, 1946 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Order Calanoida

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Family Metridinidae

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Genus Metridia

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Synonymy

Metridia boecki : Sars, 1925 (p.199, figs.F); Jespersen, 1934 (p.100); 1939 (p.68, Rem.); Brodsky, 1950 (1967) (part., p.296, figs. Sars, non Indian Ocean after Sewell, 1932; Rem.)

References

List of the studied authors

Farran, 1946 (p.215, Rem.); 1948 c (n°14, p.3, figs.F); Grice & Hulsemann, 1965 (p.224, 244, Descr.M, figs.M, Rem.); 1967 (p.17, 28: Rem.); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.884, 948, figs.F)

Figures

Plate 1 issued from : G.D. Grice & K. Hulsemann in J. Zool., 1965, 146. [p.243, Fig.16, h-k].
Male (from W Madeira Is.): h, posterior end of cephalothorax and 1st urosomal segment (lateral left side); i, P5; j, end of terminal segment of right P5; k, left P5.
Nota: 5th thoracic segment broadly rounded.
right P5 with internal spine from 2nd exopod segment nearly reaching to tip of 3rd exopod segment; 2 small terminal and one subterminal spine on 3rd exopod segment. Left P5 with seta on 1st exopod segment, seta and spine on 2nd exopod segment. A1 reaches to the furca.

Species Metridia discreta - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 Issued from : G.O. Sars in Résult. Camp. Scient. Prince Albert I, 69, pls.1-127 (1924). [Pl.LIV, figs.8-11]. As Metridia boecki.
Female: 8, habitus (dorsal); 9, proximal portion of A1; 10, 1st endopodal segment of P2; 11, P5.

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Grice, 1963 a (p.496); Harding, 1974 (p.141, tab.2, 3, gut contents); Deevey & Brooks, 1977 (p.256, tab.2, Station "S");

Distribution

NZ: 6

Distribution map of Metridia discreta by geographical zones

Distribution map of Metridia discreta for the Zone Indian Ocean

Localisations

Geographical glossary

Brazil (off NE Recife), off N Haiti, off Bermuda: Station ‘’ S’’ (32°10’N, 64°30’W), Sargasso Sea, off E Cape Cod, off Mauritania, W Madeira, Azores, S Strait of Davis (in Jespersen, 1934), SE Greenland (rare, in Jespersen, 1939), W Indian.

Quotations

N: 10

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(1) F: 3,35; (226) M: 2,04; {F: 3,35; M: 2,04}

Remarks

bathypelagic. Sargasso Sea: 1000-2000 m (Deevey & Brooks, 1977, Station "S"); In vertical tow 2000-1000 m (slope) and 4000-3000 m (Sargasso Sea, possible contaminant species from higher up the water column) (Harding, 1974).
Grice & Hulsemann (1965, p.244) point to: On the basis of A1 length and total size Farran (1946) proposed that the female Atlantic specimens previously recorded as M. boecki, were distinct from the Pacific forms described by Giesbrecht (1889) as M. boecki.

Last update : 17/01/2015

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