Metridia macrura - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Metridia macrura Sars, 1905 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Order Calanoida

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Family Metridinidae

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Genus Metridia

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References

List of the studied authors

Sars, 1905 c (p.7, Rem.F); Wolfenden, 1908 (p.16: Rem.); A. Scott, 1909 (p.121, figs.F); Sars, 1925 (p.197, figs.F,M); Sewell, 1932 (p.249, Rem.F,M, juv.); Rose, 1933 a (p.177, figs.F,M); Jespersen, 1934 (p.93); Lysholm & al., 1945 (p.32); Farran, 1948 c (n°14, p.3, figs.F); Tanaka & Omori, 1967 (p.251); Vaupel-Klein, 1970 (p.36, 43: Tabl.III); Séret, 1979 (p.136, figs.F,M); Baessa de Aguiar, 1987 (p.43, fig.M, Rem.F,M); Vives & Shmeleva, 2007 (p.365, figs.F,M, Rem.)

Figures

Plate 1 Issued from : G.O. Sars in Résult. Camp. Scient. Prince Albert I, 69, pls.1-127 (1924). [Pl.LIV, figs.1-7].
Female: 1, habitus (dorsal); 2, endopodal segments of P2; 3, P3; 4, P5; 5, anal segment and caudal rami (dorsal).

Male: 6, left A1; 7, P5.

Species Metridia macrura - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Plate 2 issued from : A. Scott in Siboga-Expedition, 1909, XIX a. [Plate XXXVIII, Figs.8-11].
Female (from Banda Sea): 8, habitus (dorsal); 9, A1; 10, P2 (hooks on basal segment of endopodite); 11, P5.

Species Metridia macrura - Plate 3 of morphological figures

Plate 3 Issued from : C. Séret in Thesis 3ème Cycle UPMC, Paris 6. 1979. [Pl. XXXV, Figs.224-230].
Female (from off Kerguelen Is.): 224, habitus (dorsal); 225, head (dorsal); 226, last thoracic segment and urosome (lateral); 227, anal segment and caudal rami; 228, A1 (dorsal view); 229, proximal segments of A1; 230, P5.

Species Metridia macrura - Plate 4 of morphological figures

Plate 4 Issued from : C. Séret in Thesis 3ème Cycle UPMC, Paris 6. 1979. [Pl. XXXVI, Figs.231-233].
Male (from off Kerguelen Is.): 231, habitus (dorsal); 232, left P5; 233, right P5.

Complementary References

List of the studied authors

Sewell, 1948 (p.503, 521, 546); C.B. Wilson, 1950 (p.265); Grice & Hulsemann, 1965 (p.224); 1967 (p.17); 1968 (tab.2); Séguin, 1968 (p.488); Deevey & Brooks, 1977 (p.256, tab.2, Station "S"); Kovalev & Shmeleva, 1982 (p.84); Wiebe & al., 1988 (tab.7); Lozano Soldevilla & al., 1988 (p.59); Baessa De Aguiar, 1991 (1993) (p.106); Shih & Young, 1995 (p.70); Razouls & al., 2000 (p.343, Appendix); Markhaseva, 2001 (p.49, figs.F); Gaard & al., 2008 (p.59, Table 1, N Mid-Atlantic Ridge); El Arraj & al., 2017 (p.272, table 2, spatial distribution);

Distribution

NZ: 12

Distribution map of Metridia macrura by geographical zones

Distribution map of Metridia macrura for the Zone Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea

Distribution map of Metridia macrura for the Zone Indian Ocean

Distribution map of Metridia macrura for the Zone China Seas, Vietnam

Distribution map of Metridia macrura and for the Zone Sub-Antarctic

Additional Maps & Charts

Species Metridia macrura - Distribution map 6

Map 6 Issued from : C. Séret in Thesis 3ème Cycle, UPMC, Paris 6. 1979, Annexe. [p.22].
Geographical occurrences of Calanus simillimus in the Indian Ocean and Antarctic zone. [after publications from: Brady, 1883, 1918; Thompson, 1900; Wolfenden, 1908, 1911; With , 1915; Rosendorn, 1917; Farran, 1929; Sewell, 1929, 1947; Brady & Gunther, 1935; Steuer, 1929, 1392, 1933; Ommaney, 1936; Vervoort, 1957; Tanaka, 1960; Brodsky, 1964; Seno, 1966; Andrews, 1966; Grice & Hulsemann, 1967; Seno, 1966; Frost & Fleminger, 1968; Voronina, 1970; Zverva, 1972].

Nota: C. Séret notes this species at station 56°S, 70°E, farther on the tropical disitribution.

Localisations

Geographical glossary

sub-Antarct. (off S Kerguelen Is.), Gabon, G. of Guinea, Moroccan coast, Canary Is., Bay of Biscay, Azores, off Bermuda : Station ‘’ S’’ (32°10’N, 64°30’W), Sargasso Sea, S Strait of Davis, W Medit. (NW Basin, NW Tunisia), Indian, Indonesia-Malaysia, China Seas (South China Sea), Japan, Guaymas Basin, off W Juan Fernandez Is.

Quotations

N: 22

Dimensions (mm)

References of the authors concerning dimensions

(1) F: 10,5; (5) F: 10,5; (44) F: 9,11-7,78; M: 8,9; (70) F:10,4-8,6; M: 9,6-7,2; (246) F: 10,41; 9,27; 7,22; M: 7,03; (249) F: 7,68-7,38; M: 7,75-7,63; {F: 7,22-10,50; M: 7,03-9,60}

The mean female size is 8.986 mm (n = 11; SD = 1.331), and the mean male size is 8.018 mm (n = 6; SD = 1.0147). The size ratio (male : female) is 0.92 (n = 4; SD = 0.1491).

Remarks

bathy-abyssopelagic.
Sampling depth (sub-Antarct.): 0-100 m. Sargasso Sea: 1000-2000 m (Deevey & Brooks, 1977, Station "S");

Last update : 25/10/2022

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