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Pontella atlantica Milne Edwards, 1840 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Ordre Calanoida

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Superfamille Diaptomoidea

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Famille Pontellidae

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Genre Pontella

détails liste des espèces pour ce genre

Abréviations ou symboles

Synonymie

Pontia atlantica Milne Edwards, 1840 (p.420, figs.F,M);
Labidocera (Iva) magna Lubbock, 1853 a (1854) (p.208, figs.M);
Pontella magna : Brady, 1883 (p.96);
Pontellina gigantea Claus, 1863 (p.210, figs.F);
Pontellina (Iva) magna : Claus,1893

Références

Liste des auteurs étudiés

Giesbrecht, 1892 (p.461, 477, 774, figs.F,M); Giesbrecht & Schmeil, 1898 (p.141, Rem. F,M); Wolfenden, 1911 (p.361); Sars, 1925 (p.353); Rose, 1933 a (p.258, figs.F,M); Lysholm & al., 1945 (p.42); Moore, 1949 (p.61); Voronina, 1962 a (p.71, fig.2, 5); Vervoort, 1965 (p.175, Rem.); Chen & Zhang, 1965 (p.105, 128: Rem.); Owre & Foyo, 1967 (p.96, figs.F,M); Weikert, 1975 (p.141); Silas & Pillai, 1973 (1976) (p.832, figs.M, Rem.M, p. 828: Rem.); Björnberg & al., 1981 (p.660, figs.F,M); Sazhina, 1982 (p.1160, fig.N); Ianora & al., 1992 (p.401, fig.); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.885, 959, figs.F,M); Vives & Shmeleva, 2007 (p.511, figs.F,M, Rem.)

Figures

Planche 1 issued from : H.B. Owre & M. Foyo in Fauna Caribaea, 1967, 1, Crustacea, 1: Copepoda. [p.95, Figs.687-690].
Female (from Florida Current): 687, habitus (dorsal); 688, P5.

Male: 689, habitus (dorsal); 690, P5.

Species Pontella atlantica - Planche 2 of morphological figures

Planche 2 issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systelatik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel, Berlin. [Tafel 40: 5, 8].
Male: 5, habitus (dorsal).

Female: 8, habitus (dorsal).

Species Pontella atlantica - Planche 3 of morphological figures

Planche 3 issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systelatik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel, Berlin. [Tafel 40: 41, 42].
Male; 41, forehead (lateral).

Female: 42, forehead (lateral)

Species Pontella atlantica - Planche 4 of morphological figures

Planche 4 issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systelatik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel, Berlin. [Tafel 40: 12, 13].
Female: 12, urosome (ventral); 13, 5th toracic segment and urosome (dorsal).

Species Pontella atlantica - Planche 5 of morphological figures

Planche 5 issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systelatik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel, Berlin. [Tafel 40: 33].
Male: 5th thoracic segmet and urosome (dorsal).

Species Pontella atlantica - Planche 6 of morphological figures

Planche 6 issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systelatik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel, Berlin. [Tafel 24: 1, 3, 7].
Male: 1, right A1 (anterior view); 3, idem (anterior, ventral.

Female: 7, poximal portion of A1 (anterior view)

Species Pontella atlantica - Planche 7 of morphological figures

Planche 7 issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systelatik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel, Berlin. [Tafel 24, Fig. 18].
Male: 18, A2 (posterior surface).

Species Pontella atlantica - Planche 8 of morphological figures

Planche 8 issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systelatik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel, Berlin. [Tafel 24: 15, 49, 50].
Female: 15, Md (posterior); 49, exopodite of P5; 50, P5 ( (anterior view)

Species Pontella atlantica - Planche 9 of morphological figures

Planche 9 issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systelatik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel, Berlin. [Tafel 24: 45].
Male: 45, P5 (posteruior view).
Pd = right leg; Ps = left leg; B = basipodite; Ri = endopodite; Re = exopodite.

Species Pontella atlantica - Planche 10 of morphological figures

Planche 10 issued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systelatik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel, Berlin. [Tafel 24, 13].
Male: 13, left P5.

Species Pontella atlantica - Planche 11 of morphological figures

Planche 11 issued from : A.K. Heinrich in Zool. Zh., 1987, 66 (6). [p.936, Fig.4]. As Pontella atlantica australis.
Male (from SW Australia): 1, habitus (dorsal); 2, forehead (lateral); 3, rostrum; 4, urosome; 5, right A1; 6, right P5; 7, left P5.
Scale bars: 1 mm.

Species Pontella atlantica - Planche 12 of morphological figures

Planche 12 issued from : A.K. Heinrich in Zool. Zh., 1987, 66 (6). [p.936, Fig.4]. As Pontella atlantica australis.
Female: 1, habitus (dorsal); 2, forehead; 3, rostrum; 4, urosome (dorsal); 5, idem (lateral); 6, idem (ventral); 7, P5.
Scale bars: 1 mm.
Nota: The female is distinguished by almost symmetrical processes of the last thoracic segment, by the presence of a triangular process on the dorsal side of the genital segment in its right part, by lack of a tooth on the dorsal distal margin, by lack of a comb on the 2nd abdominal segment

Planche 13 issued from : E.G. Silas & P. P. Plllai inJ. mar. biol. Ass. India, 1973 (1976), 15 (2). [p.832, Fig.26]. As Pontella prox atlantica.
Male (from Indian Ocean: R.V. 'Anton Brown' stn.307): a, urosome (dorsal); b, forehead (lateral); c, A1; d, P5.
Nota: The process in the claw proximal part is long and thin; there is no process in the proximal part of the claw distal segment; there are a thin triangular process and plates in the claw distal part.
Scale as in Calanopia minor.

Planche 14 issued from : A. Ianora, A. Miralto & S. Vanucci in Mar Biol., 1992, 113. [p.403, Fig.2, B]. SEM micrographs.
Female & Male: B, surface attachment structure (mass of fine setules arranged in three semicircles on a flattened area of the anterodorsal surface of the cephalosome).
For the interpretation of this structure: see in Anomalocera patersoni.

Planche 15 Issued from : J.M. Bradford-Grieve, E.L. Markhaseva, C.E.F. Rocha & B. Abiahy in South Atlantic Zooplankton, edit. D. Boltovskoy. Vol. 2, Copepoda; [p.1070, Fig. 7.390: Pontella atlantica]. Ce = cephalosome; Ur = urosome; B = basis; r = right leg; l = left leg; ven = ventral view.
Female characters (from key, p.959):
- Urosome of 3 somites.
- Endopod of P5 bifurcate distally.
- P5 endopod inner distal spine much larger than outer spine; genital segment with right side ventrolateral, narrow, process which extends to posterior border of urosomal segment 2.

Male characters (from key, p.960):
- Chelate right P5 exopodal segment1-2 with, besides the 'thumb', one large projection in form of broad, obliquely truncate lobe; exopodal segment 3 expanded proximally into broad, obliquely truncate lobe.

Références complémentaires

Liste des auteurs étudiés

Wilson, 1932 (p.26); 1942 a (part., p.203); Oliveira, 1945 (p.191); Sewell, 1948 (p.392, 432, 465, 486, 523); Grice, 1963 a (p.496); Mazza, 1966 (p.72); 1967 (p.321, fig.64); Sherman & Schaner, 1968 (p.583); Casanova, 1970 (p.30, fig.2); Heinrich, 1974 (p.43, fig.2); Weikert, 1975 (p.141, carte); Turner & al., 1979 (p.289, Tab.3); Vives, 1982 (p.295); Kovalev & Shmeleva, 1982 (p.85); Gaudy & Boucker, 1983 (p.37, Table 1, Rem.: metabolism); Madhupratap & Haridas, 1986 (p.105, tab.1); Suarez & al., 1990 (tab.2); Suarez, 1992 (App.1); Hure & Krsinic, 1998 (p.103); Alvarez-Cadena & al., 1998 (tab.3); Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p.110); Neumann-Leitao & al., 1999 (p.153, tab.2); Neumann-Leitao & al., 2008 (p.799: Tab.II, fig.6); Medellin-Mora & Navas S., 2010 (p.265, Tab. 2); Andersen N.G. & al., 2011 (p.71, Fig.3: abundance); Lidvanov & al., 2013 (p.290, Table 2, % composition); El Arraj & al., 2017 (p.272, table 2); Belmonte, 2018 (p.273, Table I: Italian zones)

Distribution

NZ: 10

Carte de distribution de Pontella atlantica par zones géographiques

Distribution map of Pontella atlantica for the Zone Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea
Distribution map of Pontella atlantica for the Zone Indian Ocean

Cartes et graphiques additionels

Carte 4 Issued from : A.K. Heinrich inTrudy Inst. Okeanol., 1974, 98 [p.44, Fig.2].
Distibution of four species of Pontellidae from SW Atlantic (Cruise of the R/V 'Akademik Kurchatov' 1971 and 1972).
Points = stations; square= Pontella atlantica ; asterisk= Pontella marplatensis ; triangle= Pontella securifer; circle = Pontellopsis perspicax.

Localisations

Glossaire géographique

off Namibia, off SW Sierra Leone, off NE St. Paul Is., Brazil, off Natal, off S Cap des Palmes, off Moroccan Atlantic Coast, off Madeira, Azores, Caribbean, Caribbean Colombia, Yucatan, G. of Mexico, Florida, Sargasso Sea, ? Bermuda, Chesapeake Bay, Georges Bank, off S Newfoundland, Medit. (Algiers Bay, W Basin, Ligurian Sea, Napoli, Messina, Adriatic Sea, Ionian Sea), Port Natal, off E Madagascar, Indian, ? [ Philippines, Japan, off Hawaii, California, SW Mexico, Central America, W Ecuador, off NE Tuamotu Is., off NE Easter Is., off Peru, off Chile ]

Citations

N: 41

Dimensions (mm)

Références de auteurs concernant les dimensions

(16) M: 5,02-4,3; (46) F: 5,9-5,8; M: 5,7-5,5; (256) M: 5,6; (482) F: ± 6,5; {F: 5,80-6,50; M: 4,30-5,70}

Remarques

épipélagique.
Les localisations dans le Pacifique dues à Wilson (1942 a, p.203; 1950, p.290)et reprises par Fagetti, 1962 (p.35), nécessitent confirmation.
Pontella atlantica australis Heinrich,1987 (F,M)
Syn.: P. prox. atlantica: Silas & Pillai, 1973 (1976) (p.832, 828, figs.M, Rem.M, p.828: Rem.)
Ref.: Heinrich, 1987 (p.936, figs.F,M, Rem.)
Loc.: W Australia Lg.: (475) F: 7,2-6,5; M: 6,3-5,7; {F: 6,50-7,20; M: 5,70-6,30}

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