Megacalanus princeps - Fiche d'espèce - Copépodes planctoniques marins

Megacalanus princeps Wolfenden, 1904 (F,M)

Taxonomy

Ordre Calanoida

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Superfamille Calanoidea

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Famille Megacalanidae

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Genre Megacalanus

détails liste des espèces pour ce genre

Abréviations ou symboles

Synonymie

Macrocalanus longicornis Sars, 1905 b (p.7);
Megacalanus longicornis Pearson, 1906 (p.6, Rem.); Van Breemen, 1908 a (p.13, fig.F); Farran, 1908 b (p.21); Sars, 1912; 1925 (p.11, figs.F,M); Sewell, 1929 (p.27, Rem.); Rose, 1929; 1933 a (p.64, figs.F,M); Jespersen, 1934 (p.45); Wilson, 1936 c (p.89); Wilson, 1942 a (p.193); Lysholm & al., 1945 (p.7); Vervoort, 1946 (p.49); C.B. 1950 (p.262); Tanaka, 1953 (p.129); Mazza, 1966 (p.69); Dowidar & El-Maghraby, 1970 (p.268); Shih & al., 1971 (p.37); Lee & al., 1971 (p.1151); Morioka, 1972 a (p.314); Vives & al., 1975 (p.35, tab.II); Vaissière & Séguin, 1980 (p.23, tab.2); Kovalev & Shmeleva, 1982 (p.82); Baessia de Aguiar, 1987 (p.40, fig.F, Rem.F,M); Lozano Soldevilla & al., 1988 (p.57); Baessa De Aguiar, 1991 (1993) (p.102); Non Miller, 2002 (p.129, figs.F,M, Rem.: variability);
Ref. compl.: Pearson, 1906 (p.6, Rem.); Van Breemen, 1908 a (p.13, fig.F); Farran, 1908 b (p.21); Sars, 1912; 1925 (p.11, figs.F,M); Sewell, 1929 (p.27, Rem.); Rose, 1929; 1933 a (p.64, figs.F,M); Jespersen, 1934 (p.45); Wilson, 1936 c (p.89); Wilson, 1942 a (p.193); Lysholm & al., 1945 (p.7); Vervoort, 1946 (p.49); C.B. 1950 (p.262); Tanaka, 1953 (p.129); Mazza, 1966 (p.69); Dowidar & El-Maghraby, 1970 (p.268); Shih & al., 1971 (p.37); Lee & al., 1971 (p.1151); Morioka, 1972 a (p.314); Macdonald & al., 1972 (p.213, fig.4, hydrostatic pressure effect); Vives & al., 1975 (p.35, tab.II); Vaissière & Séguin, 1980 (p.23, tab.2); Kovalev & Shmeleva, 1982 (p.82); Baessia de Aguiar, 1987 (p.40, fig.F, Rem.F,M); Lozano Soldevilla & al., 1988 (p.57); Baessa De Aguiar, 1991 (1993) (p.102); El-Sherif & Aboul Ezz, 2000 (p.61, Table 3: occurrence); Galbraith, 2009 (pers. comm.); Mazzocchi & Di Capua, 2010 (p.426);Fornshell & Ferrari, 23014 (p.113, fig.10: Von Vaupel Klein's organ)
Synonymies after Bradford-Grieve & al. (2017, p.30 ):
Macrocalanus longicornis Sars, 1905 (p.26);
Megacalanus longicornis : Farran, 1908 (p.21);
Megacalanus princeps : Wolfenden, 1911 (p.196-198, fig.1);
Megacalanus princeps : With, 1915 (p.41-44, pl.I, figs 3a-i, textfig.8a-d);
Megacalanus longicornis : Sars, 1924-25 (p.11-14, pls.I-II);
Megacalanus princeps var. inermis Sewell, 1947 (p.25-27, text-fig.2), considered by Bradford-Grieve & al. (2017, p.33) to be a deformed form;
Non Calanus princeps Brady, 1883 (p.36-37, pl.X, figs.3-7);
Non Megacalanus princeps Wolfenden, 1905b (p.1-3, pl.I, figs.1-6).

Références

Liste des auteurs étudiés

Wolfenden, 1904 (p.112, Descr.F, figs.F); A. Scott, 1909 (p.13, figs.F, Rem.); Wolfenden, 1911 (p.196, figs.F,M); With, 1915 (p.41, figs.F, Rem.); Lysholm & Nordgaard, 1921 (p.8); Farran, 1926 (p.230); Jespersen, 1934 (p.45); Farran, 1939 (p.360); Jespersen, 1940 (p.9); Vervoort, 1946 (p.49, figs. juv., Rem.); Sewell, 1947 (p.25, Rem.: abnormality, fig.F); 1948 (p.555, Rem.); [Non Tanaka, 1956 (p.262, figs.F)]; Vervoort, 1957 (p.32, Rem.); 1963 b (p.86, Rem.); Paiva, 1963 (p.16, figs.F); Grice, 1963 a (p.495); Mazza, 1966 (p.69); Tanaka & Omori, 1967 (p.241); Owre & Foyo, 1967 (p.34, figs.F,M); Vinogradov, 1968 (1970) (p.268); Guérédrat, 1969 (p.65, Rem.); Lee & al., 1971 (p.1151); Silas, 1972 (p.645); [Non Brodsky & al., 1983 (p.191, figs.F, M, Rem.F)]; Roe, 1984 (p.356); Tremblay & Anderson, 1984 (p.4, Rem.); Guangshan & Honglin, 1984 (p.118, tab.); Fleminger, 1985 (p.276, 284, Table 1, fig.M)); Nishida, 1989 (p.173, table 2, 3, dorsal hump); Michel, 1994 (p.177, Rem.); [Non Bradfod-Grieve, 1994 (fig.18, Gigs. F,M)]; Chihara & Murano, 1997 (p.834, Pl.126: F,M); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.877, 905, figs.F,M); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.141: figs.); Vives & Shmeleva, 2007 (p.912, figs.F,M, Rem.); Andronov, 2014 (p.33, fig.M); Bradford-Grieve & al., 2017 (p.30, Descr. F,M, NVI, copepodite II, figs. F,M, N6, juv.II ,Rem., phylogeny)

Figures

Planche 1 issued from : Sars, 1924-25 [Pl. I]. As Megacalanus longicornis.
Female: left picture, anterior surface of basis, exopodite 1 and endopodite 1 of P1, illustrating the position and form of the basis spine and seta, a macula cribrosa is located on the basis beside the articulation of exopodite 1 (little circle). Right picture, lateral view of P1 basis hook.
Scale bars: left picture = 0.1 mm; right picture = 0.2 mm.
Nota: The small, presumably sensory, organs termed laminae cribrosae, or maculae cribrosae, by With (1915) were found on the anterior surface of P1 at the positions (one each on basipodite 1, endopodite 2, exopodites 1 and 2) by Sewell (1947); the term translates as 'sieve plates' or 'sieve spots', but the actual structure is an oval neural nexus (clearly the swollen end of a nerve, visible proximally) in the epidermis, attached by thin tubules (axons, dendrites ?) to a ring of spherules embedded at the surface of the chitin (fig.5, b,-c); the patterns are not consistently different between crested and uncrested forms (maculae cribrosae are also reported for Bathycalanus by Sewell, 1947).

Species Megacalanus princeps - Planche 2 of morphological figures

Planche 2 issued from : Sars, 1924-25 [Pl. II]. As Megacalanus longicornis.
Female: A, neural nexis that is the interior section of a macula cribrosa on the proximal surface of the mandibular gnathobase: B, surface spherules of the same macula cribrosa.
Male: C, macula cribrosa with fewer spherules, one of them located centrally, on exopodite 3 of P5

Planche 3 issued from : A. Fleminger in Mar. Biol., 1985, 88. [p.284, Fig.6, E ].
Male: Left A1 proximal segments (ventral view);
Nota: see remarks in Calanus s.l. pacificus californicus (Fleminger, 1985, p.275) concerning the dimorphism in the female A1.

Species Megacalanus princeps - Planche 4 of morphological figures

Planche 4 issued from : J. Mauchline in J. mar. biol. Ass, U.K., 1977, 57 (4). [p.979, Fig.3].
Female: A, General distribution of normal pores (dots) and groups of pores (small dots) in treated integuments; B, a group of glands openings, responsible for a group of pores in a treated integument, with the associated gland; C, the peculiar structure of the group of gland openings at the site indicated in the 5th thoracic segment; the heavy line is the posterior border of the segment.

Species Megacalanus princeps - Planche 5 of morphological figures

Planche 5 issued from : R.-M. Barthélémy in These Doct. Univ. Provence (Aix-Marseille I), 1999. [Fig.20, B]. As Megacalanus longicornis.Female (from 41°47'S, 175°01'E): B, external ventral view genital double-somite.
go = genital operculum.
Scale bar: 0.200 mm.

Species Megacalanus princeps - Planche 6 of morphological figures

Planche 6 issued from : J. Mauchline in J. mar. biol. Ass, U.K., 1977, 57 (4). [p.980, Fig.4, H].
Integumental organs. H, compound seta.

Species Megacalanus princeps - Planche 7 of morphological figures

Planche 7 Issued from : N.R. Wolfenden in J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K., n. ser. 7, 1904. [Pl. IX, Figs. 1, 2].
Female (from 59-60°N, 8°42'-80'W): 1, P1 (basal segments); 2, P3.
Nota: Head and 1st pedigerous segment separate, 4th and 5th separate.
A1 25-segmented, much longer than the body.
P1 with an extraordinary double-hooked process on the dorsal surface of the basipod 2, an upper and lower hook placed vertically, the latter very strong and prominent.
Genital segment well-developed symmetrical.

Species Megacalanus princeps - Planche 8 of morphological figures

Planche 8 issued from : G; Harding in Key to the adullt pelagic calanoid copepods found over the continental shelf of the Canadian Atlantic coast. Bedford Inst. Oceanogr., Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, 2004. [p.10].
Female (lateral view)

Species Megacalanus princeps - Planche 9 of morphological figures

Planche 9 issued from : G. Harding in Key to the adullt pelagic calanoid copepods found over the continental shelf of the Canadian Atlantic coast. Bedford Inst. Oceanogr., Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, 2004. [p.10].
Female: A, P1 (non P5 as indicated by error); B, Mx2.

Species Megacalanus princeps - Planche 10 of morphological figures

Planche 10 Issued from : J.M. Bradford-Grieve, L. Blanco-Bercial & G.A. Boxshall in Zootaxa, 2017, 4229 (1). [p.31, fig.7].
Female (from 34.996°N, 52.027°W): A-B, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); C, anterior head (lateral); D, inner seta of Mx2 praecoxal endite 2; E, seta of Mx2 praecoxal endite 1 (and most of other setae on maxilla); F, A1 ancestral segments XIV-XV; G, A1 ancestral segments XVI-XVII; H, A1 ancestral segments I-IV (dorsal view); I, hair sensilla (hs) and macula cribrosa (mc) on ancestral segment III; J, P1.
Scale bars: 1.0 mm (A, B, H, J); 0.1 mm on remaining figures.

Planche 11 Issued from : J.M. Bradford-Grieve, L. Blanco-Bercial & G.A. Boxshall in Zootaxa, 2017, 4229 (1). [p.32, fig.8].
Male (from 11.683°N, 20.419°W): A-B, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); C, forehead (lateral); D, caudal ramus (dorsal); E, P5 (anterior view); F, detail of inner distal specialised seta on left P5 exopod segment 2; G, A1 ancestral segments XV-XVI; H, A1 ancestral segments XIX-XXI; I, A1 ancestral segments XXI-XXIII.
Scale bars: 1.0 mm (A, B); 0.1 mm on remaining figures.

Species Megacalanus princeps - Planche 12 of morphological figures

Planche 12 issued from : G. A. Boxshall & S. H. Halsey in An Introduction to Copepod Diversity. The Ray Society, 2004, N° 166. [p.141, Fig.29, E].
Female: E, P1.
Nota: Large hook-like process present on anterior surface of basis of P1.

Species Megacalanus princeps - Planche 13 of morphological figures

Planche 13 issued from : G; Harding in Key to the adullt pelagic calanoid copepods found over the continental shelf of the Canadian Atlantic coast. Bedford Inst. Oceanogr., Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, 2004. [p.10].
Female (lateral view)

Species Megacalanus princeps - Planche 14 of morphological figures

Planche 14 issued from : G. Harding in Key to the adullt pelagic calanoid copepods found over the continental shelf of the Canadian Atlantic coast. Bedford Inst. Oceanogr., Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, 2004. [p.10].
Female: A, P1 (non P5 as indicated by error); B, Mx2.

Planche 15 issued from : H.B. Owre & M. Foyo in Fauna Caribaea, 1967, 1, Part 1: Copepoda. [p.33, Figs.162-164].
Female (from Florida Current): 162, P1; 163, spine on basis of P1; 164, P5.

Species Megacalanus princeps - Planche 16 of morphological figures

Planche 16 Issued from : J.M. Bradford-Grieve, L. Blanco-Bercial & G.A. Boxshall in Zootaxa, 2017, 4229 (1). [p.31, fig.7].
Female (from 34.996°N, 52.027°W): A-B, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); C, anterior head (lateral); D, inner seta of Mx2 praecoxal endite 2; E, seta of Mx2 praecoxal endite 1 (and most of other setae on maxilla); F, A1 ancestral segments XIV-XV; G, A1 ancestral segments XVI-XVII; H, A1 ancestral segments I-IV (dorsal view); I, hair sensilla (hs) and macula cribrosa (mc) on ancestral segment III; J, P1.
Scale bars: 1.0 mm (A, B, H, J); 0.1 mm on remaining figures.

Nota:
- Anterior margin of head in dorsal view slightly produced into short rounded projection dorsal to base of rostrum.
- Posterior borders pf pedigerous somite 5 extend into triangular lappets reaching 1/3 on 3rd of way along genital double-somite, in dorsal view lappets appear pointed.
- A1 dorsal surface of ancestral segments I-V each with very small hair sensillum of which those on segments II and III accompanied by macula cribrosa; ancestral segments XIV-XVII 13/13, 20/21, 25/26, 24/26 distoventral teeth, respectively, distoposterior borders of segments XV and XVI with 26/32 and 29/33 minute blunt teeth, respectively; in some specimens, these blunt teeth appear to be cross-section of posterior border ridges that run at right angles to main axis of segment.
- P1 outer spines on exopod segments 1 and 2 extend half way between bases of following 2 more distal spines; 1 macula cribrosa at base of outer spine on exopod segment 2.

Remarks: Bradford-Grieve & al. (2017, p.17) use the term 'hair sensillum' because there is no adjacent pore to an integumental gland (see in Fleminger, 1973), this element is very small and difficult to see; these may or may not be accompanied by a macula cribrosa; maculae cribrosae were first mentioned by With, 1915, and interpreted as ''being a group of delicate filaments projecting through minute pores (?) The SEM of Miller (2002, p.136) showed that the dots represent small raised thickenings on the cuticle surface connected to the interior by a ''neural nexux'' (The ultrastructure and function of this organ is not known)

Species Megacalanus princeps - Planche 17 of morphological figures

Planche 17 Issued from : J.M. Bradford-Grieve, L. Blanco-Bercial & G.A. Boxshall in Zootaxa, 2017, 4229 (1). [p.32, fig.8].
Male (from 11.683°N, 20.419°W): A-B, habitus (dorsal and lateral, respectively); C, forehead (lateral); D, caudal ramus (dorsal); E, P5 (anterior view); F, detail of inner distal specialised seta on left P5 exopod segment 2; G, A1 ancestral segments XV-XVI; H, A1 ancestral segments XIX-XXI; I, A1 ancestral segments XXI-XXIII.
Scale bars: 1.0 mm (A, B); 0.1 mm on remaining figures.

Nota:
- Anterior margin of head in dorsal view slightly produced into short rounded projection dorsal to base of rostrum which extends into 2 long, ventroposteriorly-directed, tapering points taht appear to be direct extensions of cuticule.
- A1 right ancestral segment XIX without fused gripping element, instead 2 modified setae, 1 aesthetasc; XXI wiyj 1 short fused element (arising just proximal to midlength but fused to its segment only at its base), 1 modified seta, 1 aesthetasc; fused segments XV-XVI on right A1 each with longitudinal row of 16, 32 ventral teeth, respectively.
- P5 inner distal border of basis with setules, specialised seta on inner distal border of exopod segment 2 on left with basal part longer than wide and lash longer than basal part. Right exopod segment 3 inner border completely lined with fine spinules to just short of inner articulated spine.

Planche 18 Issued from : J.M. Bradford-Grieve, L. Blanco-Bercial & G.A. Boxshall in Zootaxa, 2017, 4229 (1). [p.66, Table 7].
Morphological characters after identification key of Megacalanus females and males.
Compare to other species of genus.

Main characters identification after species key :
1 - Head without crest in males and females.
2 - Posterolateral lappets of pediger 5 triangular in females and males.
3 - Female A1 ancestral segments XV and XVI with posterior border blunt teeth; male right A1 segment XIX without distal fused gripping element.

Species Megacalanus princeps - Planche 19 of morphological figures

Planche 19 Issued from : J.A. Fornshell & F.D. Ferrari in Crustaceana, 2014, 87 (1). [p.105, Fig.1, A-C]. As Megacalanus longicornis
Von Vaupel Klein's organ on left endopodal segment 1 and left basal seta of P1. A, anterior, distal up, central lumen of attenuation indicared with dotted lines; B, left basal seta; C, Von Vaupel Klein organ and middle segment on right leg of P1.
Scale line; 270 µm (A, B); 50 µm (C).

The Von Vaupel Klein organ is an association (srtucture) of the distal seta from basis and the proximal endopodal segment of P1.
This structure shows significant variability among many gymnoplean copepods, in the shape of the distodorsal corner of the proximal endopodal segment, presence and location of denticles on the anterior face of the segment, presence and size of denticles along the distal margin of the segment , number of pores on the segment, shape of the seta that originates on the basis, and the morphology of the basis at the origin of the seta.
The function of this complex structure is not known.

Références complémentaires

Liste des auteurs étudiés

Wickstead, 1962 (p.551, food & feeding); De Decker & Mombeck, 1964 (p.13); Mazza, 1966 (p.69); Grice & Hulsemann, 1967 (p.13); 1968 (tab.2); Gueredrat & Friess, 1971 (p.187, fig.2); Morris R.J., 1971 (p.275, Table 1, 2, lipids composition); Roe, 1972 (p.277, tabl.1, tabl.2); Björnberg, 1973 (p.303, ); Deevey & Brooks, 1977 (p.256, Table 2, Station "S"); Kovalev & Shmeleva, 1982 (p.82); Vives, 1982 (p.290); Guangshan & Honglin, 1984 (p.118, tab.); Petipa & Borichenko, 1985 (tab.2); Heinrich, 1990 (p.16); Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p.110); Barthélémy, 1999 a (p.10); Lapernat, 2000 (tabl.3, 4); Razouls & al., 2000 (p.343, tab. 5, Appendix); Holmes, 2001 (p.35); Hsiao & al., 2004 (p.326, tab.1); G. Harding, 2004 (p.10, figs.F); Ikeda & al., 2006 (p.1791,Table 2); Fernandes, 2008 (p.465, Tabl.2); Gaard & al., 2008 (p.59, Table 1, N Mid-Atlantic Ridge); Park & Ferrari, 2009 (p.143, Table 4, Appendix 1, biogeography); Drira & al., 2010 (p.145, Tanl.2); Teuber & al., 2013 (p.1, Table 1, 2, 3, fig.5, abundance vs oxygen minimum zone, respiration rates, enzyme activity); Bode & al., 2015 (p.268, Table 1, chemical components, trophic level, geographic zone); Almeida Alves-Jr. & al., 2017 (p.1, fig.F, Rem.); El Arraj & al., 2017 (p.272, table 2); Belmonte, 2018 (p.273, Table I: Italian zones); Bode & al., 2018 (p.840, Table 1, respiration & ingestion rates, depth); Bode & al., 2018 (p.66, fig.5, vertical distribution %, Rem).

Distribution

NZ: 22

Carte de distribution de Megacalanus princeps par zones géographiques

Distribution map of Megacalanus princeps for the Zone Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea

Distribution map of Megacalanus princeps for the Zone Indian Ocean

Distribution map of Megacalanus princeps for the Zone China Seas, Vietnam

Distribution map of Megacalanus princeps for the Zone Antarctic and for the Zone Sub-Antarctic

Cartes et graphiques additionels

Espèce Megacalanus princeps - Carte de distribution 6

Carte 6 issued from : W. Vervoort in B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Reseach Expedition, Reports - Ser. B, Vol. III, 1957 [Fig.7].
Chart showing the geographical distribution (white circle) in the seas surrounding the Antarctic continent.
Nota: In this chart the area frequented by whaling vessels has been hatched. The Antarctic circle (66°.5 S) has been drawn as a broken line. The numbers I to VI refer to the sectors into which the Antarctic seas are divided according to Mackintosh (1942) (after Vervoort, 1951).

Nota: After vervoort (1957, p.32) this species preferably inhabits the intermediate water layers, occasionally penetrating into very deep water. It may be carried to the North and South in the intermediate water mass; its occurrence at Antarctic localities is certainly accidental and may be explained as the result of transportation in Atlantic water masses.

Espèce Megacalanus princeps - Carte de distribution 7

Carte 7 Issued from : R. J. Morris in Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 1971, 40B. [p.277, Table 1].
Total lipid and saponification for Megacalanus princeps from Northeastern Atlantic.

Carte 8 Issued from : F. de Almeida Alves-Jr., E. Pinho Correira, L. Guedes Peirera Figueirédo, A. Galdino da Cunha, A. Bertrand & S. Neumann-Leitao in Nauplius, 2016, 25 [p.3, Fig. 2].
Worldwide geographic distribution of Megacalanus princeps Wolfenden, 1904.

Nota: After F. de Almeida Alves-Jr & al. (2016), the proportional length of females urosomites and caudal rami are different from Tanaka (1956): 33 : 23 : 13 : 8 : 23, indicating a small morphological variation, when compared with specimens collected in the Pacific Ocean.
The Brasilian specimens presented a cephalic crest; this characteristic was only found before in specimens collected in deep waters off Southern California

Carte 9 Issued from : J.M. Bradford-Grieve, L. Blanco-Bercial & G.A. Boxshall in Zootaxa, 2017, 4229 (1). [p.34, fig.9].
Distribution of Megacalanus princeps (filled triangle), Megacalanus frosti (open triangle), Megacalanus ericae (filled square) and Megacalanus ohmani (open square).

Carte 10 Issued from : M. Bode, R. Koppelmann, L. Teuber, W. Hagen & H. Auel inGlobal Biogeochemical Cycles, 2018, 32. [p.844, Table 1).
Cf. explanations of these measures in Calanoides natalis from the same authors.

Localisations

Glossaire géographique

Antarct. (Indian, SE Pacif.), sub-Antarct. (SW & SE Pacif.), South Africa (E), off S St. Helena Is., Angola, off E St. Paul Is., off E Sao Tomé Is., Cape Verde Is., off Mauritania-NW Cape Verde Is., Morocco-Mauritania, Canary Is., off Madeira, Azores, Bay of Biscay, Rocas Atoll (N Brazil), Caribbean Sea, G. of Mexico, Florida, Sargasso Sea, Station "S" (32°10'N, 64°30'W), off W Cape Finisterre, Woods Hole, off E Newfoundland, Greenland, W Iceland, Ireland (S & W), Faroe, Ibero-moroccan Bay, Medit. (Ligurian Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea, G. of Gabès, Ionian Sea, Alexandria), Red Sea (Sharm El-Sheikh), Arabian Sea, indian (equatorial), SW Indian, Bay of Bengal, Indonesia-Malaysia, Philippines, Pacif. (W equatorial), China Seas (East China Sea, South China Sea), E Taiwan, Japan, off SE Hokkaido, G. of Alaska, British Columbia, off California, New Zealand, Pacif. (tropical), Hawaii, off E Easter Is., off Peru, Pacif. (SE tropical), off Juan Fernandez Is., N & S Chile, Drake passage;

Type locality: 51-60° N, 6-13° W.

Citations

N: 80

Dimensions (mm)

Références de auteurs concernant les dimensions

(1) F: 10- 9,5; (5) F: 9,5; (7) F: 10,5; M: 10,6; (10) F: 10; (14) F: 11,5-8,7; M: 12-9; (28) F: 11,5-8,75; M: 10,15-7,9; (29) M: 9,5; (38) F: 9,2-9; (49) F: 10,3-9,8; (70) F: 11,9-10,2; M: 10,8-10; (73) F: 10,68-10; (140) F: 11-9,2; M: 9,5-9,3; (199) F: 9,92-9,44; (787) F: 13-10; M: 10; (865) F: 10,6; (904) M: 10,9-11,2; (1089) F: 12-13,5; M: 9,3-9,5; (1311) F: 9,21; M: 10,31-9,9; (1316) F: 8,5-10,5; M: 9,5-10,4; {F: 8,50-13,50; M: 7,90-12,00}

The mean female size is 10.149 mm (n = 29; SD = 2.0062), and the mean male size is 9.903 mm (n = 17; SD = 1.0984). The size ratio (male : female) is approximately 0.93.

Remarques

méso-bathypélagique.
Sampling depth (Antarct., sub-Antarct.) : 2000 m.
Des différences existent entre les formes du Pacifique SW (Bradford-Grieve, 1994, p.18) et les figures de Sars (1924) et Wolfenden (1905 a).
Contrairement à ce qu'indique Sars (1925, p.5) l'espèce décrite par Wolfenden (1904) comme M. princeps est différente de Calanus princeps (= Bradycalanus sarsi) Brady (1883) qui n'appartiennent pas au même genre. Pour Sars les deux espèces seraient identiques, les deux formes ne montrant que quelques différences insignifiantes et sans aucune réelle valeur générique notamment par le défaut d'épine à l'angle interne du basis de P1, remplacé par un petit nodule qui représenterait un rudiment d'épine, et en arrière de celui ci on peut voir une soie recourbée ayant la même apparence que chez M. princeps; dans ces conditions , Sars retient la dénomination de Megacalanus princeps (Brady, 1883) qui, de ce fait, a l'antériorité sur Wolfenden et change le nom d'espèce de ce dernier en M. longicornis, position qui apparaît injustifiée puisque les espèces n'appartiennent pas au même genre.

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