Temora turbinata
Temora turbinata (Dana, 1849)
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Taxonomy
| Phylum | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum | Crustacea |
| Class | Maxillopoda |
| Subclass | Copepoda |
| Order | Calanoida |
| Family | Temoridae |
| Genus | Temora |
| Species | turbinata |
Size
- Female: 1.05-1.61 mm
- Male: 0.93-1.56 mm
Distinguishing characteristics
- Cephalosome is typically widest and deepest part of the prosome, vaulted
- 2 slender rostral filaments
- Pedigerous segments 4-5 fused
- P5 of female small, uniramous, 3-segmented; last segment dentate
- P5 male asymmetrical, left leg larger and 4-segmented, segment 2 produced on inner edge into a long curved thumb-like process, right P5 3-segmented, terminal segment curved inwards, claw-like
- Female urosome short, hardly protrudes ventrally
- Very long caudal rami, may be asymmetrical
Male
- 'Teardrop' shaped cephalosome
- A1 right geniculate
- P5 left terminal segment relatively long and broad
- Urosome somite 4 is longer than the anal somite
- Caudal rami are longer than urosome
Female
- 'Teardrop' shaped cephalosome
- Swimming legs compact
- P5 with the inner spine on the terminal segment considerably shorter and thinner than the 2 terminal spines
- Caudal rami are longer than urosome
- Terminal seta 2 of the caudal rami is thick and asymmetrical
(Bradford Grieve 1999)
Distribution
- Epipelagic-mesopelagic
- Widely distributed in the tropical, subtropical and temperate parts of the Indian Ocean and the Indo-Westpacific area
- In the Indian and Pacific Oceans it goes about as far south as 35°S; in the Pacific Ocean it goes as far north as 40°N. In the Atlantic the distribution is more or less erratic
- Widespread and common in Australian waters
Ecology
- Undergo diel vertical migration
- Isochronal development
- Omnivorous, but primarily opportunistic herbivores
References
- Bradford-Grieve, J. M. and Markhaseva, E.L. (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, Pontellida e, Sulcanidae, Acartiidae, Tortanidae. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. Wellington, New Zealand.
- Mauchline, J. 1998. The biology of calanoid copepods. Advances in Marine Biology 33: 1-701.
- 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.
- Turner (1984)