WoRMS name details

Oncaea obscura Farran, 1908

354030  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:354030)

uncertain > nomen dubium (female description was based on a juvenile stage)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Farran, G.P. (1908). Second report on the Copepoda of the Irish Atlantic slope. Fisheries, Scientific Investigations, Ireland 1906(2): 1-104, pls. 1-11. [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Taxonomy According to Malt (1982, p. 140) Oncaea obscura Farran, 1908 is not a valid species, because the description was based on a...  
Taxonomy According to Malt (1982, p. 140) Oncaea obscura Farran, 1908 is not a valid species, because the description was based on a juvenile stage (Copepodid V). This course of action is accepted here for the description of the female in Farran´s account, which obviously shows the urosome of a male CV stage (his plate X, fig. 23), whereas Farran´s figure of the male (his plate X, fig. 22) clearly shows an adult specimen. As long as no further taxonomic details are available for the species (by re-examination of the type and/or examination of fresh material) the name of Farran´s species is regarded as nomen dubium herein. [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2024). World of Copepods Database. Oncaea obscura Farran, 1908. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=354030 on 2024-03-28
Date
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2008-07-15 14:41:49Z
created
2009-03-31 18:21:23Z
changed
2010-03-06 11:45:13Z
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2023-05-25 14:26:50Z
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original description Farran, G.P. (1908). Second report on the Copepoda of the Irish Atlantic slope. Fisheries, Scientific Investigations, Ireland 1906(2): 1-104, pls. 1-11. [details]  OpenAccess publication 

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

basis of record Walter, T. Chad. The World of Copepods. International online database. , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda [details]   

status source Malt, S.J. (1982). Developmental stages of Oncaea media Giesbrecht, 1891 and Oncaea subtilis Giesbrecht, 1892. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology 43(3):129-151, figs. 1-9, tabs. 1-4. (29-ix-1982)
page(s): 140 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

ecology source Brun, P., M.R. Payne & T. Kiørboe. (2017). A trait database for marine copepods. <em>Earth System Science Data.</em> 9(1):99-113., available online at https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-99-2017 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy According to Malt (1982, p. 140) Oncaea obscura Farran, 1908 is not a valid species, because the description was based on a juvenile stage (Copepodid V). This course of action is accepted here for the description of the female in Farran´s account, which obviously shows the urosome of a male CV stage (his plate X, fig. 23), whereas Farran´s figure of the male (his plate X, fig. 22) clearly shows an adult specimen. As long as no further taxonomic details are available for the species (by re-examination of the type and/or examination of fresh material) the name of Farran´s species is regarded as nomen dubium herein. [details]