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Redescription of poorly known neustonic calanoid copepod Pontella andersoni Sewell, 1912 (Family: Pontellidae) from the Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean

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Title Redescription of poorly known neustonic calanoid copepod Pontella andersoni Sewell, 1912 (Family: Pontellidae) from the Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean
 
Creator Francis, S V
Purushothaman, J
Siddique, A
Bhowal, A
Nandan, S B
 
Subject Bay of Bengal
Copepoda
Pontellidae
Taxonomic description
 
Description 635-640
The neustonic calanoid copepod of family Pontellidae Pontella andersoni Sewell, 1912 was originally described from the Bay of Bengal based on a single male and a damaged female with a description of copepodid stage III. Later, this species was described from Gulf of Mannar (based on a male specimen) and from West Java (based on immature specimens). In the present study, adult female and male specimens were collected from the coastal waters of northern Bay of Bengal. The species was easily distinguished from its congeners by a barrel shaped first urosomal somite in female, and two subequal spines with two knot-like projections in the first exopodal segment of right fifth leg, serrated spine and three processes in the second exopodal segment of left leg in male. The present note is an updated illustrative description of P. andersoni, since the previous descriptions were lacking the taxonomic resolution.
 
Date 2021-11-24T05:01:42Z
2021-11-24T05:01:42Z
2021-08
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 2582-6727 (Online); 2582-6506 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/58550
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.50(08) [August 2021]