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Pontella meadi Wheeler, 1901 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Ordre Calanoida

détails

Superfamille Diaptomoidea

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Famille Pontellidae

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Genre Pontella

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Abréviations ou symboles

Synonymie

Pontella pennata Wilson, 1932 (p.27, figs.F,M); 1932 a (p.150, figs.F,M); Wilson, 1942 a (p.203); Grice, 1956 (p.68); 1960 (p.220);
no Pontella meadi : Chiba, 1956 (p.52, figs.M, Rem.)

Références

Liste des auteurs étudiés

Wheeler, 1901 (p.180, figs.F,M): Wilson, 1932 a (p.153, figs.F,M); 1950 (p.295, figs.F,M); Fleminger, 1957 (p.26: Rem.); Silas & Pillai, 1973 (1976) (p.776, 834); Chen & Marcus, 1997 (p.587, Rem: egg)

Figures

Planche 1 issued from : C.B. Wilson in Bull. U.S. natn Mus., 1950, 100 (14) (4). [Plate 28, 417-418].
Female (from Gulf of Mexico): 417, habitus (dorsal); 418, P5.

When alive or freshly preserved there is a row of dark blotches, one on each segment, along the dorsal midline of the metasome.

Species Pontella meadi - Planche 2 of morphological figures

Planche 2 issued from : C.B. Wilson in Bull. U.S. natn Mus., 1950, 100 (14) (4). [Plate 28, 419].
Male: 419, P5.

Références complémentaires

Liste des auteurs étudiés

Wilson, 1932 (p.26); Dawson, 1966 (p.176); Sherman & Schaner, 1968 (p.583, fig.1); Grice & Gibson, 1977 (p.410, resting eggs); Turner, 1977 (p.249, fecal pellets); 1979 (p.131, fecal pellet/microbial); Turner & al., 1979 (p.289, Tab.3, fecal pellets); Grice & Marcus, 1981 (p.125, Dormant eggs, Rem.: p.134); Madhupratap & al., 1996 (p.77, Table 2: resting eggs); Marcus, 1996 (p.144); Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1997 (p.1525); Mauchline, 1998 (tab.40, 47); Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p.110); Frangoulis & al., 2005 (p.254, Table I: C/N/P fecal pellet composition)

Distribution

NZ: 2

Carte de distribution de Pontella meadi par zones géographiques

Cartes et graphiques additionels

Espèce Pontella meadi - Carte de distribution 2

Carte 2 issued from : J.T. Turner in Mar. Biol., 1977, 40. [p.254, Fig.3]. Pontella meadi from estuarine waters near Galveston (Texas).
3: Fecal pellet produced on Skeletonema costatum plus Nitzschia sp. diet; 4: high magnification of area in square in 3.

Nota: Sinking rates of fecal pellets produced by the species, grazing on 4 different phytoplankton diets, ranged from 15 to 153 m/day, with a mean of 66 m/day.
In 1979, Turner (1979, p.249) points to that pellets were colonized by rod-shaped bacteria that became attached to the outside of the peritrophic membrane and were not of intestinal origin.

Localisations

Glossaire géographique

Caribbean, Yucatan, Yucatan (Ascension Bay), G. of Mexico, Galveston Bay (Texas), Louisiana (off Grand Isle, Turkey Point), Florida, Chesapeake Bay, Woods Hole, Georges Bank

Citations

N: 16

Dimensions (mm)

Références de auteurs concernant les dimensions

(45) F: 2,65-2,35; M: 3-2,75; (45’) F: 3,25-3; M: 3,5-3; (632) F: 3,5-3; M: 3,25-2,85; {F: 2,35-3,50; M: 2,75-3,50}

Remarques

semble proche de Pontella lobiancoi

Voir aussi les remarques en anglais

Dernière mise à jour : 02/10/2020