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Leptocalanus Bernard, 1958 
AphiaID: 149754

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Maxillopoda (Class) > Copepoda (Subclass) > Neocopepoda (Infraclass) > Gymnoplea (Superorder) > Calanoida (Order) > Paracalanidae (Family)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Calocalanus Giesbrecht, 1888
Rank Genus
Parent Paracalanidae Giesbrecht, 1893
Sources  basis of record: Ices Zooplankton sheet n° 32:Copepoda [details]

source of synonymy: Walter, Chad. The world of Copepods. [details]

source of synonymy: 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]

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taxa
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Species Leptocalanus equalicauda Bernard, 1958 accepted as Calocalanus equalicauda (Bernard, 1958)
Species Leptocalanus filicornis Giesbrecht, 1888 accepted as Mecynocera clausi Thompson I.C., 1888
Species Leptocalanus gracilis Bernard, 1960 accepted as Calocalanus gracilis Tanaka, 1956
Species Leptocalanus plumulosus (Claus, 1863) accepted as Mecynocera plumulosa (Claus, 1863)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Link 3x5 C.B. Wilson Taxonomic Card - Leptocalanus
Note  Thompson 1888:150 & Esterly, 1905:137, thought that this may be Mecynocera [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149754
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-03-30 12:51:50Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-08-04 10:50:30Z  changed  Walter, T. Chad
2009-10-17 15:04:45Z  changed  Walter, T. Chad
2009-10-21 23:57:02Z  changed  Walter, T. Chad
2011-11-22 10:08:09Z  changed  Boxshall, Geoff
  
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  Citation: Boxshall, G.; Walter, T. Chad (2013). Leptocalanus. 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=149754 on 2013-06-19
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