WoRMS name details
Cetochilus Roussel de Vauzeme, 1834
346943 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:346943)
unaccepted (synonym)
Genus
Cetochilus australis Roussel de Vauzème, 1834 (type by original designation)
- Species Cetochilus finmarchicus (Gunner, 1765) accepted as Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus, 1770) (synonym)
- Species Cetochilus helgolandicus Claus, 1863 accepted as Calanus helgolandicus (Claus, 1863) represented as Calanus helgolandicus helgolandicus (Claus, 1863) (synonym)
- Species Cetochilus longiremis Claus, 1863 accepted as Calanus gracilis Dana, 1849-1852 accepted as Neocalanus gracilis (Dana, 1849-1852) (synonym)
- Species Cetochilus minor Claus, 1863 accepted as Nannocalanus minor (Claus, 1863) (basionym)
- Species Cetochilus septentrionalis Goodsir, 1843 accepted as Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus, 1770) (synonym)
- Species Cetochilus australis Roussel de Vauzème, 1834 (uncertain > nomen dubium, the description and figures are inadequate to determine which calanidae genus it belongs to.)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Roussel de Vauzeme, A. (1834). Description de Cétochilus australis, nouveau genre de Crustacé branchiopode. [Description of Cetochilus australis, a new genus of branchiopod crustacean.]. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Série Zoologie et Biologie Animale, Paris.</em> (2)1:333-338, pl. 9 figs. 1B-9B. [details] 
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Cetochilus Roussel de Vauzeme, 1834. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=346943 on 2025-11-12
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Nomenclature
original description
Roussel de Vauzeme, A. (1834). Description de Cétochilus australis, nouveau genre de Crustacé branchiopode. [Description of Cetochilus australis, a new genus of branchiopod crustacean.]. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Série Zoologie et Biologie Animale, Paris.</em> (2)1:333-338, pl. 9 figs. 1B-9B. [details]
basis of record Claus, C. (1863). Die frei lebenden Copepoden mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Fauna Deutschlands, der Nordsee und des Mittelmeeres. [The free-living copepods with special consideration of the fauna of Germany, the North Sea and the Mediterranean.]. <em>Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig.</em> 230 pp., pls. 1-37., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11820384
page(s): 171 pl.26 [details]
basis of record Claus, C. (1863). Die frei lebenden Copepoden mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Fauna Deutschlands, der Nordsee und des Mittelmeeres. [The free-living copepods with special consideration of the fauna of Germany, the North Sea and the Mediterranean.]. <em>Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig.</em> 230 pp., pls. 1-37., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11820384
page(s): 171 pl.26 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Claus, C. (1866). Die Copepoden-Fauna von Nizza. Ein Beitrag zur Charakteristik der Formen und deren Abanderungen 'im Sinne Darwin's'. [The Copepod Fauna of Nice. A Contribution to the Characteristics of the Forms and their Variations 'in the Sense of Darwin']. <em>Schriften der Gesellschaft zur Beforderung der Gesammten Naturwissenschaften zu Marburg.</em> Supplemment 1: 1-34. Pls. 1-5.
page(s): 3 [details]
page(s): 3 [details]
Other
additional source
Goodsir, H.D.S. (1843). The Genus Cetochilus belonging to the Order Copepoda and the family Pontia of M. Edwards. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 35:336-339, pl.6. [details]
