BeRMS taxon details
Eurytemora americana Williams, 1906
104873 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104873)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Williams, L.W. (1906). Notes on marine Copepoda of Rhode Island. <em>American Naturalist.</em> 40(477):639-660, figs.1-23. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1086/278665 [details] 
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2021). World of Copepods database. Eurytemora americana Williams, 1906. Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010 onwards) Belgian Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104873 on 2026-07-21
VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010 onwards). Belgian Register of Marine Species. Eurytemora americana Williams, 1906. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104873 on 2026-07-21
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Williams, L.W. (1906). Notes on marine Copepoda of Rhode Island. <em>American Naturalist.</em> 40(477):639-660, figs.1-23. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1086/278665 [details]
context source (Introduced species) Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. <em>BioInvasions Records.</em> 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details] Available for editors
context source (Schelde) (2010). Bedreiging voor biodiversiteit. Indicatoren voor het Schelde-estuarium. <em>Opgemaakt in opdracht van Afdeling Maritieme Toegang, projectgroep EcoWaMorSe, Vlaams Nederlandse Scheldecommissie. VLIZ Information Sheets, 200. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ): Oostende.</em> 7 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 252-268 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Roff, J.C. (1978). A guide to the marine flora and fauna of the Bay of Fundy: Copepoda: Calanoida. Fisheries and Marine Service Technical Report 823. 27 p. [details] Available for editors
additional source Hoffmeyer, M.S. & E.R. Torres. (2001). Morphometric variables and individual volume of Eurytemora americana and Acartia tonsa females (Copepoda, calanoida) from the Bahía Blanca estuary, Argentina. Hydrobiologia, The Hague 459:73-82. (1.ix.2001), available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1012554423252 [details] Available for editors
additional source Hoffmeyer, M.S., B.W. Frost & M.B. Castro. (2000). Eurytemora americana Williams, 1906, not Eurytemora affinis (Poppe, 1880), inhabits the Bahía Blanca estuary, Argentina. Scientia Marina 64(1):111-113. (iii.2000), available online at https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.2000.64n1111 [details] Available for editors
additional source Lowndes, A.G. (1932). Eurytemora americana L.W. Williams: a new European record. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:541-549, figs. 1-11. (xii-1932), available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933208673607 [details] Available for editors
additional source Grice, G.D. (1971). The developmental stages of Eurytemora americana Williams, 1906, and Eurytemora herdmani Thompson & Scott, 1897 (Copepoda, Calanoida). Crustaceana, Leiden 20(2):145-158, figs. 1-153. (23-iii-1971), available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/156854069x00178 [details] Available for editors
additional source Heron, G.A. (1964). Seven species of Eurytemora (Copepoda) from northwestern North America. Crustaceana, Leiden 7(3):199-211, figs. 1-26. (7-ix-1964), available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/156854064x00155 [details] Available for editors
additional source Kos, M.S. (1977). Vidy roda Eurytemora (Copepoda, Calanoida) severnoi chasti Tikhogo Okeana: sistematika rasprostranenie izmenchivost'. [Species of the genus Eurytemora (Copepoda, Calanoida) in northern part of the Pacific Ocean: systematics, distribution, variability.]. <em>In: Brodsky, K.A. & N.V. Vyshkvartzeva (eds.). Morskoi Planktona (Sistematika i Faunistika). Marine Plankton (Systematics and Faunistics). Issledovaniya Fauny Morei.</em> 20(28):20-53, figs. 1-26. (25-iv-1977, Russian with English summary). [details] Available for editors
additional source Palmer, P. (1975). Bijdrage tot de studie van mariene Calanoïda: E. americana met dauereier in de Spuikom te Oostende. [Contribution to the study on marine Calanoida: E. americana with resting eggs in the Sluice Dock, Oostende.]. <em>B.Sc. Thesis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.</em> 100 pp. [details]
additional source Sukhikh, N., V. Castric, N. Polyakova, S. Souissi & V. Alekseev. (2016). Isolated populations of Eurytemora americana Williams (Crustacea, Copepoda) in the White Sea rock pools - postglacial relicts or anthropogenic invasion?. <em>Russian Journal of Bological Invasions,[Rossiskii Zhurnal Biologicheskikh Invazii].</em> 7(4):396-404. [3:118-128. ]., available online at https://doi.org/10.1134/S2075111716040093 [details] Available for editors
additional source Moon, S.Y., J.H. Choi, J.N. Kim, S.K. Kim & B.A. Venmathi Maran. (2016). New extension range and complementary description of Eurytemora americana (Calanoida: Temoridae) in northern Korea. <em>Marine Biodiversity Records.</em> 9(76): 1-7. Aug 15 2016., available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s41200-016-0076-8 [details] Available for editors
additional source Ueda, H., S.O. Sakaguchi & M. Yamada. (2017). Occurrence of Eurytemora americana (Copepods, Calanoida) in a small inlet of Japan: temporary domination and disappearance of the invasive alien species. Plankton & Benthos Research, 12(3):171-178., available online at https://doi.org/10.3800/pbr.12.171 [details] Available for editors
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., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.158.i [details] Available for editors
additional source Berasategui, A.A., F. Biancalana, A. Fricke, M.D. Fernandez-Severini, R. Uibrig, M.S. Dutto, J. Marcovecchio, D. Calliari & M.S. Hoffmeyer. (2018). The impact of sewage effluents on the fecundity and survival of Eurytemora americana in a eutrophic estuary of Argentina. Estuarine Coastal And Shelf Science, 211:208-216., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2017.08.034 [details] Available for editors
additional source Fefilova, E.B., N. Sukhikh, E. Rasova, I. Velegzhaninov & E. Abramova. (2020). Novyye dannyye o rasprostranenii Eurytemora Giesbrecht (Copepoda: Calanoida) v rossiyskoy Arktike. [New data on expansion of Eurytemora Giesbrecht (Copepoda: Calanoida) in the Russian Arctic.]. <em>Doklady Rossiiskoy Akademii Nauk, Nauky o Zhizni / Reports of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Life Sciences.</em> 492:242-245. [In Russian; English abstract]., available online at https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496620030035 [details] Available for editors
additional source Berasategui, A.A., D.L. Calliari, M. Amodeo, C.V. Spetter, V. Guinder & F. Biancalana. (2024). Interannual changes in winter-spring zooplankton estuarine community forced by hydroclimatic variability- With special reference to bioindicator species Eurytemora americana. <em>Marine Environmental Research.</em> 186: 1-14. 105898 . Apr 2023., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.105898 [details] Available for editors
additional source Hoffmeyer, M.S., A.A. Berasategui, D. Beigt & M.C. Piccolo. (2009). Environmental regulation of the estuarine copepods Acartia tonsa and Eurytemora americana during coexistence period. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 89(2):355-361., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/11336/28626 [details] Available for editors
additional source Berasategui, A.A., M.S. Hoffmeyer, F. Biancalana, M. Fernandez Severini & M.C. Menendez. (2009). Temporal variation in abundance and fecundity of the invading copepod Eurytemora americana in Bahía Blanca Estuary during an unusual year. <em>Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.</em> 85:82-88., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2009.03.008 [details] Available for editors
additional source Strange, M.V., S.H. Jónasdóttir, & T.G. Nielsen. (2025). The autumn plankton community of an Arctic fjord: impact of temperature and salinity on the functional response of two copepod species 'to watch'. <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 47(3):1-15. MAY 2025., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbaf014 [details] Available for editors
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Fernández-Severini, M.D., M.S. Hoffmeyer, J.E. Marcovecchio & M.C. Menéndez. (2007). Heavy metals in Acartia tonsa and Eurytemora americana (Crustacea, Copepoda) in the Bahía Blanca Estuary. Abstract 90. Biocell 31(2):30. [Abstract.] [details]
additional source Avent, S.R. (1996). The distribution of Eurytemora americana (Crustacea, Copepoda) in a temperate, tidally-influenced estuary. Senior research thesis, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. [details]
additional source Berasategui, A.A., M.S. Hoffmeyer, M.S. Dutto & F. Biancalana. (2012). Seasonal variation in the egg morphology of the copepod Eurytemora americana and its relationship with reproductive strategy in a temperate estuary in Argentina. ICES Journal of Marine Science 69(3):380-388., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsr192 [details] Available for editors
additional source Soh, H.Y. & S.Y. Moon. (2014). Arthropoda, Maxillopoda, Copepoda, Calanoida : Marine Planktonic Copepods III. <em>Invertebrate Fauna of Korea, National Institute of Biological Resources.</em> 21(34):138 pp. Dec 2014. [details] Available for editors
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
context source (Introduced species) Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. <em>BioInvasions Records.</em> 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details] Available for editors
context source (Schelde) (2010). Bedreiging voor biodiversiteit. Indicatoren voor het Schelde-estuarium. <em>Opgemaakt in opdracht van Afdeling Maritieme Toegang, projectgroep EcoWaMorSe, Vlaams Nederlandse Scheldecommissie. VLIZ Information Sheets, 200. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ): Oostende.</em> 7 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 252-268 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Roff, J.C. (1978). A guide to the marine flora and fauna of the Bay of Fundy: Copepoda: Calanoida. Fisheries and Marine Service Technical Report 823. 27 p. [details] Available for editors
additional source Hoffmeyer, M.S. & E.R. Torres. (2001). Morphometric variables and individual volume of Eurytemora americana and Acartia tonsa females (Copepoda, calanoida) from the Bahía Blanca estuary, Argentina. Hydrobiologia, The Hague 459:73-82. (1.ix.2001), available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1012554423252 [details] Available for editors
additional source Hoffmeyer, M.S., B.W. Frost & M.B. Castro. (2000). Eurytemora americana Williams, 1906, not Eurytemora affinis (Poppe, 1880), inhabits the Bahía Blanca estuary, Argentina. Scientia Marina 64(1):111-113. (iii.2000), available online at https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.2000.64n1111 [details] Available for editors
additional source Lowndes, A.G. (1932). Eurytemora americana L.W. Williams: a new European record. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:541-549, figs. 1-11. (xii-1932), available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933208673607 [details] Available for editors
additional source Grice, G.D. (1971). The developmental stages of Eurytemora americana Williams, 1906, and Eurytemora herdmani Thompson & Scott, 1897 (Copepoda, Calanoida). Crustaceana, Leiden 20(2):145-158, figs. 1-153. (23-iii-1971), available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/156854069x00178 [details] Available for editors
additional source Heron, G.A. (1964). Seven species of Eurytemora (Copepoda) from northwestern North America. Crustaceana, Leiden 7(3):199-211, figs. 1-26. (7-ix-1964), available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/156854064x00155 [details] Available for editors
additional source Kos, M.S. (1977). Vidy roda Eurytemora (Copepoda, Calanoida) severnoi chasti Tikhogo Okeana: sistematika rasprostranenie izmenchivost'. [Species of the genus Eurytemora (Copepoda, Calanoida) in northern part of the Pacific Ocean: systematics, distribution, variability.]. <em>In: Brodsky, K.A. & N.V. Vyshkvartzeva (eds.). Morskoi Planktona (Sistematika i Faunistika). Marine Plankton (Systematics and Faunistics). Issledovaniya Fauny Morei.</em> 20(28):20-53, figs. 1-26. (25-iv-1977, Russian with English summary). [details] Available for editors
additional source Palmer, P. (1975). Bijdrage tot de studie van mariene Calanoïda: E. americana met dauereier in de Spuikom te Oostende. [Contribution to the study on marine Calanoida: E. americana with resting eggs in the Sluice Dock, Oostende.]. <em>B.Sc. Thesis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.</em> 100 pp. [details]
additional source Sukhikh, N., V. Castric, N. Polyakova, S. Souissi & V. Alekseev. (2016). Isolated populations of Eurytemora americana Williams (Crustacea, Copepoda) in the White Sea rock pools - postglacial relicts or anthropogenic invasion?. <em>Russian Journal of Bological Invasions,[Rossiskii Zhurnal Biologicheskikh Invazii].</em> 7(4):396-404. [3:118-128. ]., available online at https://doi.org/10.1134/S2075111716040093 [details] Available for editors
additional source Moon, S.Y., J.H. Choi, J.N. Kim, S.K. Kim & B.A. Venmathi Maran. (2016). New extension range and complementary description of Eurytemora americana (Calanoida: Temoridae) in northern Korea. <em>Marine Biodiversity Records.</em> 9(76): 1-7. Aug 15 2016., available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s41200-016-0076-8 [details] Available for editors
additional source Ueda, H., S.O. Sakaguchi & M. Yamada. (2017). Occurrence of Eurytemora americana (Copepods, Calanoida) in a small inlet of Japan: temporary domination and disappearance of the invasive alien species. Plankton & Benthos Research, 12(3):171-178., available online at https://doi.org/10.3800/pbr.12.171 [details] Available for editors
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., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.158.i [details] Available for editors
additional source Berasategui, A.A., F. Biancalana, A. Fricke, M.D. Fernandez-Severini, R. Uibrig, M.S. Dutto, J. Marcovecchio, D. Calliari & M.S. Hoffmeyer. (2018). The impact of sewage effluents on the fecundity and survival of Eurytemora americana in a eutrophic estuary of Argentina. Estuarine Coastal And Shelf Science, 211:208-216., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2017.08.034 [details] Available for editors
additional source Fefilova, E.B., N. Sukhikh, E. Rasova, I. Velegzhaninov & E. Abramova. (2020). Novyye dannyye o rasprostranenii Eurytemora Giesbrecht (Copepoda: Calanoida) v rossiyskoy Arktike. [New data on expansion of Eurytemora Giesbrecht (Copepoda: Calanoida) in the Russian Arctic.]. <em>Doklady Rossiiskoy Akademii Nauk, Nauky o Zhizni / Reports of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Life Sciences.</em> 492:242-245. [In Russian; English abstract]., available online at https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496620030035 [details] Available for editors
additional source Berasategui, A.A., D.L. Calliari, M. Amodeo, C.V. Spetter, V. Guinder & F. Biancalana. (2024). Interannual changes in winter-spring zooplankton estuarine community forced by hydroclimatic variability- With special reference to bioindicator species Eurytemora americana. <em>Marine Environmental Research.</em> 186: 1-14. 105898 . Apr 2023., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.105898 [details] Available for editors
additional source Hoffmeyer, M.S., A.A. Berasategui, D. Beigt & M.C. Piccolo. (2009). Environmental regulation of the estuarine copepods Acartia tonsa and Eurytemora americana during coexistence period. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 89(2):355-361., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/11336/28626 [details] Available for editors
additional source Berasategui, A.A., M.S. Hoffmeyer, F. Biancalana, M. Fernandez Severini & M.C. Menendez. (2009). Temporal variation in abundance and fecundity of the invading copepod Eurytemora americana in Bahía Blanca Estuary during an unusual year. <em>Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.</em> 85:82-88., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2009.03.008 [details] Available for editors
additional source Strange, M.V., S.H. Jónasdóttir, & T.G. Nielsen. (2025). The autumn plankton community of an Arctic fjord: impact of temperature and salinity on the functional response of two copepod species 'to watch'. <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 47(3):1-15. MAY 2025., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbaf014 [details] Available for editors
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Fernández-Severini, M.D., M.S. Hoffmeyer, J.E. Marcovecchio & M.C. Menéndez. (2007). Heavy metals in Acartia tonsa and Eurytemora americana (Crustacea, Copepoda) in the Bahía Blanca Estuary. Abstract 90. Biocell 31(2):30. [Abstract.] [details]
additional source Avent, S.R. (1996). The distribution of Eurytemora americana (Crustacea, Copepoda) in a temperate, tidally-influenced estuary. Senior research thesis, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. [details]
additional source Berasategui, A.A., M.S. Hoffmeyer, M.S. Dutto & F. Biancalana. (2012). Seasonal variation in the egg morphology of the copepod Eurytemora americana and its relationship with reproductive strategy in a temperate estuary in Argentina. ICES Journal of Marine Science 69(3):380-388., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsr192 [details] Available for editors
additional source Soh, H.Y. & S.Y. Moon. (2014). Arthropoda, Maxillopoda, Copepoda, Calanoida : Marine Planktonic Copepods III. <em>Invertebrate Fauna of Korea, National Institute of Biological Resources.</em> 21(34):138 pp. Dec 2014. [details] Available for editors
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
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | Amerikaans brakwaterroeipootkreeftje | [details] |
Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls/OOB/UPMC/CNRS) Note: Including taxonomic identification plates, remarks, geographic distribution, ecological information & reference list
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eurytemora americana)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To Information system on Aquatic Non-Indigenous and Cryptogenic Species (AquaNIS)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (9 records)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eurytemora americana)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To Information system on Aquatic Non-Indigenous and Cryptogenic Species (AquaNIS)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (9 records)
To ITIS