Canthocalanus pauper
Giesbrecht (1888)
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Taxonomy
| Phylum | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum | Crustacea |
| Class | Maxillopoda |
| Subclass | Copepoda |
| Order | Calanoida |
| Family | Calanidae |
| Genus | Canthocalanus |
| Species | pauper |
Size
- Female: 1.30 – 1.60 mm
- Male: 1.30 – 1.50 mm
Distinguishing characteristics
- Female: distinctive, prehensile spine on P1
- Male: P5 form
Male
- Right P5 asymmetrical, exopod with no inner marginal spines, left endopod two terminal setae, left exopodite with elongated segments with long outer distal setae on segments 2 and 3
Female
- Similar to Nannocalanus minor but urosome not as indented into prosome
- Anterior cephalosome and posterior prosome rounded, last prosome somite may be slightly asymmetrical
- P1 basis has a distinctive weakly prehensile spine on anterior, short extension at its base appears as a notch
- Strong setae on caudal rami
Distribution
- Epipelagic, coastal
- Indian and Pacific, but presence in Atlantic needs confirmation
- Tropical, subtropical
- Common in Kuroshio Current
Ecology
- Prefers salinity < 33
- Undertakes normal diel vertical migration
- Common intermediate host for parasitic isopods
References
- Bradford-Grieve, J. M. (1994). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic Copepoda: Megacalanidae, Calanidae, Paracalanidae, Mecynoceridae, Eucalanidae, Spinocalanidae, Clausocalanidae. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand.
- 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).
- 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.
- Bradford J. & Jillett J.B., 1974. - A revision of generic definitions in the Calanidae (Copepoda, Calanoida). Crustaceana, 27 (1): 5-16.Lan et al. (2004)
- Lo et al. (2004)
- Xu & Gao (2011)
- Greenwood, J. G. (1976). "Calanoid copepods of Moreton Bay (Queensland). 1. Families Calanidae, Eucalanidae, and Paracalanidae." Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 87: 1-28.
- Owens, L. Rothlisberg, P.C. 1991. Vertical migration and advection of bopyrid isopod cryptoniscid larvae in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, Journal of plankton research, 13:4:279
- 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