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Calocalanus Giesbrecht, 1888 
AphiaID: 104193

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Maxillopoda (Class) > Copepoda (Subclass) > Neocopepoda (Infraclass) > Gymnoplea (Superorder) > Calanoida (Order) > Paracalanidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Paracalanidae Giesbrecht, 1893
Synonymised
taxa
  Ischnocalanus Bernard, 1963 (synonym)
Leptocalanus Bernard, 1958 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 252-268 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Ices Zooplankton sheet n° 32:Copepoda [details]

from synonym: Okemwa, E.N. (1992). A long-term sampling study of Copepods across a Tropical Creek in Mombasa, Kenya. E. Afr. Agric. For. J. 57(4):199 - 215. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Walter, Chad. The world of Copepods. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Bradford-Grieve, J.M.. 1994. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic calanoid Copepoda, Megacalaniidae, Calanidae, Paracalanidae, Mecynoceridae, Eucalanidae, Spinocalanidae, Clausocalanidae. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir, NIWA, Wellington 102:160 pp. [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Calocalanus aculeatus Shmeleva, 1987
Species Calocalanus adriaticus Shmeleva, 1965
Species Calocalanus africanus Shmeleva, 1979
Species Calocalanus alboranus Shmeleva, 1979
Species Calocalanus antarcticus Shmeleva, 1978
Species Calocalanus atlanticus Shmeleva, 1975
Species Calocalanus beklemishevi Shmeleva, 1987
Species Calocalanus contractus Farran, 1926
Species Calocalanus curtus Andronov, 1973
Species Calocalanus dellacrocei Shmeleva, 1987
Species Calocalanus elegans Shmeleva, 1965
Species Calocalanus elongatus Shmeleva, 1968
Species Calocalanus equalicauda (Bernard, 1958)
Species Calocalanus fiolenti Shmeleva, 1978
Species Calocalanus fusiformis Shmeleva, 1978
Species Calocalanus gracilis Tanaka, 1956
Species Calocalanus gresei Shmeleva, 1973
Species Calocalanus indicus Shmeleva, 1974
Species Calocalanus kristalli Shmeleva, 1968
Species Calocalanus latus Shmeleva, 1968
Species Calocalanus lomonosovi Shmeleva, 1975
Species Calocalanus longifurca Shmeleva, 1975
Species Calocalanus longisetosus Shmeleva, 1965
Species Calocalanus longispinus Shmeleva, 1978
Species Calocalanus minor Shmeleva, 1980
Species Calocalanus minutus Andronov, 1973
Species Calocalanus monospinus Chen & Shen, 1974
Species Calocalanus namibiensis Andronov, 1973
Species Calocalanus nanus Shmeleva, 1987
Species Calocalanus neptunus Shmeleva, 1965
Species Calocalanus omaniensis Shmeleva, 1975
Species Calocalanus ovalis Shmeleva, 1965
Species Calocalanus paracontractus Shmeleva, 1974
Species Calocalanus parelongatus Shmeleva, 1979
Species Calocalanus pavo (Dana, 1852)
Species Calocalanus pavoninus Farran, 1936
Species Calocalanus plumatus Shmeleva, 1965
Species Calocalanus plumulosus (Claus, 1863)
Species Calocalanus pseudocontractus Bernard, 1958
Species Calocalanus pubes Andronov, 1973
Species Calocalanus pyriformis Shmeleva, 1975
Species Calocalanus regini Shmeleva, 1987
Species Calocalanus sayademalja Shmeleva, 1987
Species Calocalanus spinosus Shmeleva, 1987
Species Calocalanus styliremis Giesbrecht, 1888
Species Calocalanus tenuiculus Andronov, 1973
Species Calocalanus tenuis Farran, 1926
Species Calocalanus vinogradovi Shmeleva, 1987
Species Calocalanus vitjazi Shmeleva, 1974
Species Calocalanus vivesei Shmeleva, 1979

Species Calocalanus nambiensis Andronov, 1973 accepted as Calocalanus namibiensis Andronov, 1973
Species Calocalanus vivesi Shmeleva, 1979 accepted as Calocalanus vivesei Shmeleva, 1979
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Kenya [details]
Links 3x5 C.B. Wilson Taxonomic Card - Calocalanus
To GenBank
To ITIS
Note  Classification: Genus in Paracalanidae
The creation of the family Calocalanidae from the genus Calocalanus, originaly placed in Paracalanidae by Giesbrecht (1892, p.49), is controversial. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104193
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Boxshall, Geoff
2005-03-30 12:51:50Z  changed  Cuvelier, Daphne
2005-06-11 00:31:37Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-10-17 15:04:45Z  changed  Walter, T. Chad
2011-11-22 10:08:09Z  changed  Boxshall, Geoff
  
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  Citation: Boxshall, G.; Walter, T. Chad (2013). Calocalanus Giesbrecht, 1888. In: Walter, T.C. & Boxshall, G. (2013). World of Copepods database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104193 on 2013-05-22
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