Centropages calaninus
Dana (1849)
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Taxonomy
| Phylum | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum | Crustacea |
| Class | Maxillopoda |
| Subclass | Copepoda |
| Order | Calanoida |
| Family | Centropagidae |
| Genus | Centropages |
| Species | calaninus |
Size
- Female: 1.72 – 2.18 mm
- Male: 1.80 – 2.06 mm
Distinguishing characteristics
- P5 form in male, in female P5 exopodal segment 2 inner edge spine is straight and longer than exopodal segment 3
- Female genital somite symmetrical with lateral swellings in dorsal view
Male
- Last metasome segment rounded
- Right P5 exopodal segment 3 claw is longer than the inner extension of exopodal segment 2 and is sharply bent
Female
- Last prosome somite rounded in dorsal view
- A1 extends beyond caudal rami by last 2 segments
- Notch on the proximal inner margin of exopodal segment 1 of P5
- P5 exopodal segment 2 inner edge spine is straight and longer than exopodal segment 3
- Genital somite symmetrical with lateral swellings in dorsal view
- Anal somite almost 2 times as long as urosome somite 2
- Caudal rami large and asymmetrical
Distribution
- Epipelagic, coastal
- Tropical, subtropical, cold temperate
- Indian and Pacific, Atlantic uncertain
Ecology
- Little is known about the ecology of this species
References
- Bradford-Grieve, J. M., E. L. Markhaseva, et al. (1999). Copepoda. South Atlantic Zooplankton. D. Boltovskoy. Leiden, The Netherlands, Backhuys Publishers. 1: 869-1098.
- Bradford-Grieve, J. M., (1999) The marine fauna of New Zealand: pelagic calanoid copepoda: Bathypontiidae, Arietellidae, Augaptilidae, Heterorhabdidae, Lucicutiidae, Metridinidae, Phyllopodidae, Centropagidae, Pseudodiaptomidae, Temoridae, Candaciidae, Pontellidae, Sulcanidae, Acartiidae, Tortanidae. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand.
- Conway DVP, White, R.G., Hugues-Dit-Ciles, J., Gallienne, C.P. and Robins, D.B. (2003). Guide to the coastal and surface zooplankton of the south-western Indian Ocean, Vol Occasional Publications No. 15. Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
- Chen Q. C. & Zhang S. Z, (1965). The planktonic copepods of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea. I. Calanoida. Studia mar. sin., 7: 20-131. (Chinese with English summary).
- Giesbrecht W., 1893 ["1892"]. Systematik und Faunistik der pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres- Abschnitte. Fauna u. Flora Golf. Neapel, 19: 1-831, pls. 1-54. (After Böttger-Schnack (pers. comm., 2009), publication year of Giesbrecht´s monography on the pelagic copepods of the Gulf of Naples should be cited as Giesbrecht 1893 ["1892"]. For an explanation, see the note of Ruth Böttger-Schnack in the family site of Oncaeidae in the WoRMS database. For practical reasons, the only date of 1892 is maintained throughout the text.).
- Grice G.D., (1961) 1962. Calanoid copepods from equatorial waters of the Pacific Ocean. Fishery Bull. Fish Wildl. Serv. U.S., 61 (186): 167-246.
- Mulyadi (1998). New records and taxonomic reexamination of the genus Centropages (Copepoda: Calanoida), with notes on their geographic distribution in Indonesian waters. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 46 (1): 53-70.
- Razouls C., de Bovée F., Kouwenberg J. et Desreumaux N., 2005-2009. Diversity and Geographic Distribution of Marine Planktonic Copepods. Available at http://copepodes.obs-banyuls.fr/en