Copepoda name details
Eucalanus elongatus (Dana, 1849-1852)
149718 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149718)
alternative representation
Species
Calanella elongata (Dana, 1853) · unaccepted (synonym)
Calanus elongatus Dana, 1849-1852 · unaccepted
Calanus erythrochilus Leuckart, 1859 · unaccepted
Eucalanus atlanticus Wolfenden, 1904 · unaccepted
Eucalanus elongatus hyalinus Claus, 1866 · unaccepted
Eucalanus giesbrechti Mori, 1937 · unaccepted
Eucalanus spinifer Scott T., 1894 · unaccepted
Paracalanus elongatus (Dana, 1849-1852) · unaccepted
- Subspecies Eucalanus elongatus elongatus (Dana, 1849-1852)
- Subspecies Eucalanus elongatus inermis Giesbrecht, 1893
- Subspecies Eucalanus elongatus bungii Giesbrecht, 1892 accepted as Eucalanus bungii Giesbrecht, 1893
- Subspecies Eucalanus elongatus hyalinus Claus, 1866 accepted as Eucalanus elongatus (Dana, 1849-1852) represented as Eucalanus elongatus elongatus (Dana, 1849-1852)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Calanus elongatus Dana, 1849-1852) Dana, J.D. (1853-1855). Crustacea. Part II. <em>In: United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes. U. S. N., C. Sherman Printer, Philadelphia.</em> 14: 691-1618. [1855, folio atlas pls. 1-96.]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40412910
page(s): 1079 [details]
page(s): 1079 [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Eucalanus elongatus (Dana, 1849-1852). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=149718 on 2025-07-11
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(of Calanus elongatus Dana, 1849-1852) Dana, J.D. (1853-1855). Crustacea. Part II. <em>In: United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes. U. S. N., C. Sherman Printer, Philadelphia.</em> 14: 691-1618. [1855, folio atlas pls. 1-96.]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40412910
page(s): 1079 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (Bermuda) Wilson, C. B. (1936). Plankton of the Bermuda Oceanographic Expeditions IV. Notes on Copepoda . Zoologica Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society , New York, 21(7): 89-93 [details] Available for editors
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basis of record ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32. [details]
additional source Brodsky, K.A. (1962). K faune i raspredeleniyu veslonogikh rachkov Calanoida poverkhnostnykh vod severo-zapadnoi chasti Tikhogo okeana. [On the fauna and distribution of the calanoid copepods from the surface waters of the north-western Pacific Ocean.]. <em>Issledovaniya dal'nevost. Morei SSSR.</em> 8:91-166, figs. 1-60. (Russian). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Johnson, M.W. (1937). The developmental stages of the copepod Eucalanus elongatus Dana var. bungii Giesbrecht. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 56:79-98, pls. 1-4. (i-1937) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lang, B.T. (1963). The problem of 'Eucalanus elongatus Dana'. In: Moore, J.A. (ed.). Proceedings of the XVI International Congress of Zoology, Washington, 20-27 August 1963 1:102. (Abstract.) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lang, B.T. (1970). The taxonomic problem of Eucalanus elongatus Dana. Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Saigon 1967:93-102, figs. 1-5. (Vietnamese summary.) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Li, S.J. & J.C. Fang. (1990). Larval stages of marine planktonic copepods of China. China Ocean Press, Beijing 141 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Park, T. (1968). Calanoid Copepods from the Central North Pacific Ocean. Fishery Bulletin, United States National Marine Fisheries Service 66(3): 527-572, pls. 1-13. (III-1968). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Price, H.J. & G.A. Paffenhöfer. (1986). Capture of small cells by the copepod Eucalanus elongatus. Limnology and Oceanography 31(1):189-194, figs. 1-2, tab. 1. (i.1986) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sazhina, L.I. (1985). Naupliusy massovykh vidov pelagickeskikh kopepod Mirovogo okeana. [Nauplii of mass species pelagic copeopds of the world ocean.]. <em>Naukova Dumka, Kiev.</em> 238 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sewell, R.B.S. (1929). The Copepoda of Indian Seas. Calanoida. <em>Memoirs of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.</em> 10:1-221, figs. 1-81. (xii-1929). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Suárez-Morales, E., J.W. Fleeger & P.A. Montagna. (2009). Free-living Copepoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>In: Felder, D. L. & D.K. Camp [Eds]. Gulf of Mexico: origin, waters, and biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, 1393 pp.</em> Chapter pagination: 841-869. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Prusova, I.Y., S.L. Smith & E. Popova. 2012. Calanoid copepods of the Arabian Sea region. Sultan Qaboos University, Academic Publication Board, Muscat, Oman 240 pp., 240 figs. (2011). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lee, B.D. (1966). Distribution and abundance of pelagic copepods in the Drake Passage and off the coast of Argentina, with special reference to hydrology of these areas. Ph.D. Thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1-250, pls. 1-56. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Paulmier, G. (2014). Copepods Calanoida (Neocopepoda, Gymnoplea) in Normandy and Brittany waters of the English Channel and the Atlantic. Sections of Amphascandria and Isokerandria. Les copepodes Calanoida (Neocopepoda, Gymnoplea) dans les eaux normandes et bretonnes de la Manche et de l'Atlantiques. Sections of Amphascandria and Isokerandria. <em>Bulletin de la Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux.</em> 149, n. ser.42(1):1-22. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Wilson, C.B. (1932). The copepods of the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 158:1-635, figs. 1-316, pls. 1-41. [details] Available for editors [request]
new combination reference Geletin, Y.V. (1976). Formirovanie abdomena v ontogeneze u kopepod rodov Eucalanus i Rhincalanus (Calanoida, Eucalanidae) i movaya siste. [The ontogenetic abdomen formation in copepods of genera Eucalanus and Rhincalanus (Calanoida, Eucalanidae) and new system of these copepods.]. <em>In: Brodsky, K.A. & N.V. Vyshkvartzeva (eds.). Explorations of the Fauna of the Seas XVIII (XXVI). Functional Morphology, Growth and Development of Invertebrates of Sea Plankton. Issledovaniya Fauny Morei [SHELVED UNDER BRODSKY & VYSHKVARZEVA].</em> 18(26):75-93, figs. 1-4. (17-xii-1976, Russian with English summary). [details] Available for editors [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 [request]
page(s): 1079 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (Bermuda) Wilson, C. B. (1936). Plankton of the Bermuda Oceanographic Expeditions IV. Notes on Copepoda . Zoologica Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society , New York, 21(7): 89-93 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32. [details]
additional source Brodsky, K.A. (1962). K faune i raspredeleniyu veslonogikh rachkov Calanoida poverkhnostnykh vod severo-zapadnoi chasti Tikhogo okeana. [On the fauna and distribution of the calanoid copepods from the surface waters of the north-western Pacific Ocean.]. <em>Issledovaniya dal'nevost. Morei SSSR.</em> 8:91-166, figs. 1-60. (Russian). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Johnson, M.W. (1937). The developmental stages of the copepod Eucalanus elongatus Dana var. bungii Giesbrecht. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 56:79-98, pls. 1-4. (i-1937) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lang, B.T. (1963). The problem of 'Eucalanus elongatus Dana'. In: Moore, J.A. (ed.). Proceedings of the XVI International Congress of Zoology, Washington, 20-27 August 1963 1:102. (Abstract.) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lang, B.T. (1970). The taxonomic problem of Eucalanus elongatus Dana. Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Saigon 1967:93-102, figs. 1-5. (Vietnamese summary.) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Li, S.J. & J.C. Fang. (1990). Larval stages of marine planktonic copepods of China. China Ocean Press, Beijing 141 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Park, T. (1968). Calanoid Copepods from the Central North Pacific Ocean. Fishery Bulletin, United States National Marine Fisheries Service 66(3): 527-572, pls. 1-13. (III-1968). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Price, H.J. & G.A. Paffenhöfer. (1986). Capture of small cells by the copepod Eucalanus elongatus. Limnology and Oceanography 31(1):189-194, figs. 1-2, tab. 1. (i.1986) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sazhina, L.I. (1985). Naupliusy massovykh vidov pelagickeskikh kopepod Mirovogo okeana. [Nauplii of mass species pelagic copeopds of the world ocean.]. <em>Naukova Dumka, Kiev.</em> 238 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sewell, R.B.S. (1929). The Copepoda of Indian Seas. Calanoida. <em>Memoirs of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.</em> 10:1-221, figs. 1-81. (xii-1929). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Suárez-Morales, E., J.W. Fleeger & P.A. Montagna. (2009). Free-living Copepoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>In: Felder, D. L. & D.K. Camp [Eds]. Gulf of Mexico: origin, waters, and biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, 1393 pp.</em> Chapter pagination: 841-869. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Prusova, I.Y., S.L. Smith & E. Popova. 2012. Calanoid copepods of the Arabian Sea region. Sultan Qaboos University, Academic Publication Board, Muscat, Oman 240 pp., 240 figs. (2011). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lee, B.D. (1966). Distribution and abundance of pelagic copepods in the Drake Passage and off the coast of Argentina, with special reference to hydrology of these areas. Ph.D. Thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1-250, pls. 1-56. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Paulmier, G. (2014). Copepods Calanoida (Neocopepoda, Gymnoplea) in Normandy and Brittany waters of the English Channel and the Atlantic. Sections of Amphascandria and Isokerandria. Les copepodes Calanoida (Neocopepoda, Gymnoplea) dans les eaux normandes et bretonnes de la Manche et de l'Atlantiques. Sections of Amphascandria and Isokerandria. <em>Bulletin de la Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux.</em> 149, n. ser.42(1):1-22. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Wilson, C.B. (1932). The copepods of the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 158:1-635, figs. 1-316, pls. 1-41. [details] Available for editors
[request]new combination reference Geletin, Y.V. (1976). Formirovanie abdomena v ontogeneze u kopepod rodov Eucalanus i Rhincalanus (Calanoida, Eucalanidae) i movaya siste. [The ontogenetic abdomen formation in copepods of genera Eucalanus and Rhincalanus (Calanoida, Eucalanidae) and new system of these copepods.]. <em>In: Brodsky, K.A. & N.V. Vyshkvartzeva (eds.). Explorations of the Fauna of the Seas XVIII (XXVI). Functional Morphology, Growth and Development of Invertebrates of Sea Plankton. Issledovaniya Fauny Morei [SHELVED UNDER BRODSKY & VYSHKVARZEVA].</em> 18(26):75-93, figs. 1-4. (17-xii-1976, Russian with English summary). [details] Available for editors
[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
[request]
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Habitat Epipelagic [details]Habitat Mesopelagic [details]
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls/OOB/UPMC/CNRS) Note: Including taxonomic identification plates, remarks, geographic distribution, ecological information & reference list
Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls/OOB/UPMC/CNRS) Note: Including taxonomic identification plates, remarks, geographic distribution, ecological information & reference list (from synonym Eucalanus spinifer Scott T., 1894)
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Eucalanus atlanticus Wolfenden, 1904)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Eucalanus spinifer Scott T., 1894)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (90 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eucalanus elongatus)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eucalanus spinifer) (from synonym Eucalanus spinifer Scott T., 1894)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Calanus elongatus Dana, 1849-1852)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Eucalanus spinifer Scott T., 1894)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Eucalanus elongatus hyalinus Claus, 1866)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (72 records)
To ITIS
Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls/OOB/UPMC/CNRS) Note: Including taxonomic identification plates, remarks, geographic distribution, ecological information & reference list (from synonym Eucalanus spinifer Scott T., 1894)
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Eucalanus atlanticus Wolfenden, 1904)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Eucalanus spinifer Scott T., 1894)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (90 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eucalanus elongatus)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eucalanus spinifer) (from synonym Eucalanus spinifer Scott T., 1894)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Calanus elongatus Dana, 1849-1852)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Eucalanus spinifer Scott T., 1894)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Eucalanus elongatus hyalinus Claus, 1866)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (72 records)
To ITIS
