Redescription of the poorly known calanoid copepod Pontella karachiensis Fazal-Ur-Rehman, 1973 from the Red Sea with notes on its feeding habits

• El-Sherbiny Mohsen M.

  Marine Science Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University

• Ueda Hiroshi

  Usa Marine Biological Institute, Kochi University

書誌事項

タイトル別名

• Redescription of the poorly known calanoid copepod <i>Pontella karachiensis</i> Fazal-Ur-Rehman, 1973 from the Red Sea with notes on its feeding habits

抄録

The neustonic calanoid copepod Pontella karachiensis, previously recorded only in the coastal waters of Pakistan and recently in the Arabian Gulf, is fully redescribed from the northern Red Sea because the previous description is insufficient to identify the species. This is the first record of its occurrence in the Red Sea and confirms that this copepod is a subtropical Indian Ocean species. The species belongs to the newly established karachiensis group because of closer similarity to P. minocerami, the other member of the group, than any species of the known species groups. Gut content analysis revealed that P. karachiensis is carnivorous, mainly feeding on planktonic copepods.

収録刊行物

• Plankton and Benthos Research

  Plankton and Benthos Research 3 (1), 10-17, 2008

  日本プランクトン学会、日本ベントス学会

キーワード

• Copepoda
• gut contents
• <i>Pontella karachiensis</i>
• Red Sea
• zoogeography

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001205264073344
• NII論文ID: 10021072428
• NII書誌ID: AA12130745
• DOI: 10.3800/pbr.3.10
• ISSN: 1882627X
• ISSN: 18808247
• NDL書誌ID: 9404429
• Web Site: http://hdl.handle.net/10126/3013
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I9404429
• 本文言語コード: en
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