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CaRMS name detailsLimnocalanus macrurus Sars G.O., 1863
157674 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157674)
alternative representation
Species
marine, brackish,
Sars, G.O. (1863). Oversigt af de indenlandske Ferskvandcopepoder. [Overview of the domestic Freshwater Copepods.]. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiana.</em> 1862:212-262., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44339019 [details]
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Limnocalanus macrurus Sars G.O., 1863. Accessed through: Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157674 on 2026-01-19
Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2026). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Limnocalanus macrurus Sars G.O., 1863. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157674 on 2026-01-19
Date action by
original description
Sars, G.O. (1863). Oversigt af de indenlandske Ferskvandcopepoder. [Overview of the domestic Freshwater Copepods.]. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiana.</em> 1862:212-262., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44339019 [details]
basis of record 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 Chow-Fraser, P. & C.K. Wong. (1985). Herbivorous feeding of three large freshwater calanoid copepods, Limnocalanus macrurus Sars, Senecella calanoides Juday and Epischura lacustris Forbes. Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 22(5):3195-3198, figs. 1-2. (vi-1985) [details] Available for editors additional source Carter, J.C.H. (1969). Life cycles of Limnocalanus macrurus and Senecella calanoides, and seasonal abundance and vertical distribution of various planktonic copepods, in Parry Sound, Georgian Bay. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 26(10):2543-2560, figs. 1-9. (x-1969) [details] Available for editors additional source Bowers, J.A. & G.J. Warren. (1977). Predaceous feeding by Limnocalanus macrurus upon Diaptomus ashlandi. Journal of Great Lakes Research 3(3/4):234-236, figs. 1-2, tab. 1. [details] additional source Bowkiewicz, J. (1937). Limnocalanus macrurus G.O. Sars, nowy dla fauny gatunek widlonogów. Limnocalanus macrurus G.O. Sars, eine für Polen neue Copepoden Art. [Limnocalanus macrurus G.O. Sars, a new species of copepods for the fauna]. <em>Fragmenta Faunistica, Warsaw.</em> 3(5):27-32. (10-iii-1937, Polish with German summary.). [details] Available for editors additional source Carter, J.C.H. & K.A. Goudie. (1986). Diel vertical migrations and horizontal distributions of Limnocalanus macrurus and Senecella calanoides (Copepoda, Calanoida) in lakes of southern Ontario in relation to planktivorous fish. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 43(12):2508-2514. (xii.1986, French summary)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/f86-309 [details] Available for editors additional source Einsle, U. (1993). Crustacea: Copepoda: Calanoida und Cyclopoida. <em>In: Schwoerbel, J. & P. Zwick (eds.). Süsswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, Gustav Fischer Verlag.</em> 8(4-1):1-209. (German). [details] Available for editors additional source Conway, J.B. (1977). Seasonal and depth distribution of Limnocalanus macrurus at a site on western Lake Superior. <em>Journal of Great Lakes Research.</em> 3(1-2):15-19, figs. 1-3, tabs. 1-2. (x-1977)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/S0380-1330(77)72224-5 [details] additional source Dussart, B.H. & D. Defaye. (2001). Copepoda: Introduction to the Copepoda. (2nd edition)(revised and enlarged). <em>Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World. H.J.F. Dumont (ed.). SPB Academic Publishers, The Hague.</em> 16:1-344. [details] Available for editors additional source Franke, U. (1989). Katalog zur Sammlung limnischer Copepoden von Prof. Dr. Friedrich Kiefer (Mit einem Gesamtverzeichnis seiner Publikationen). [Catolog of the freshwater copepods of Dr. Friedrich Kiefer.]. <em>Carolinea Beiheft, Karlsrühe.</em> 5:1-433, figs. 1-2. note: Catalog vial number(s): 3418, 3660, 4368, 4369, 4810, 4834, 4863, 4864 [details] Available for editors additional source Gannon, J.E. & A.M. Beeton. (1972). The decline of the large zooplankter, Limnocalanus macrurus Sars (Copepoda, Calanoida), in Lake Erie. In: Proceedings of the XIV Conference on Great Lakes Research :27-38, figs. 1-4. [details] Available for editors additional source Herrick, C.L. (1895). Part I. Copepoda of Minnesota. <em>In: Herrick, C.L. & C.H. Turner (eds.). Second report of the State Zoologist including a synopsis of the Entomostraca of Minnesota. Geological Natural History Survery of Minnesota (Zoological Series.).</em> 2:41-138, 81 plates. [details] additional source Guerne, J. de & J. Richard. (1889). Révision des Calanides d'eau douce. [Revision of freshwater Calanidae.]. <em>Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 2:1-129 , figs. 1-60, pls. 1-4. [details] additional source Hirche, H.J., I. Fetzer, M. Graeve & G. Kattner. (2003). Limnocalanus macrurus in the Kara Sea (Arctic Ocean): an opportunistic copepod as evident from distribution and lipid patterns. Polar Biology 26(11):720-726. [details] Available for editors additional source Kane, D.D., J.E. Gannon & D.A. Culver. (2004). The status of Limnocalanus macrurus (Copepoda: Calanoida: Centropagidae) in Lake Erie. Journal of Great Lakes Research 30(1):22-30. [details] Available for editors additional source Kiefer, F. (1978). Freilebende Copepoda. [Free-living Copepoda]. <em>In: Kiefer, F. & G. Fryer (eds.) Das Zooplankton der Binnengewässer, 2. Teil.; In: Elster, H.J. & W. Ohle (eds) Die Binnengewässer Einzeldarstellungen aus del Limnologie und ihren Nachbargebietien.</em> 26(2):1-343, figs. 1-22, pls. 1-96, tabs. 1-12, Beilage. [details] Available for editors additional source Marsh, C.D. (1893). On the Cyclopidae and Calanidae of central Wisconsin. <em>Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.</em> 9:189-224, pls. 3-6. [Read before the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, June 1892]. [details] additional source Marsh, C.D. (1895). On the Cyclopidae and Calanidae of Lake St. Clair, Lake Michigan, and certain of the inland lakes of Michigan. <em>Bulletin of the Michigan Fish Commission, Lansing.</em> 5:1-24, pls. 1-9. (completed volume in 1897). [details] additional source Latimer, D.L., A.S. Brooks & A.M. Beeton. (1975). Toxicity of 30-minute exposures of residual chlorine to the copepods Limnocalanus macrurus and Cyclops bicuspidatus thomasi. <em>Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada.</em> 32(12):2495-2501, tabs. 1-3. (xii-1975)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/f75-287 [details] Available for editors additional source Likhareva, E.I. (1985). Svyaz' Limnocalanus macrurus Sars s abioticheskimi faktorami i vozmozhnosti yego introduktsii v vodoyemy severo-zapada SSSR.. [Relation of Limnocalanus macrurus Sars to abiotic factors and potentialities for its introduction into water bodies of the USSR north-west.]. <em>Sbornik Nauchnykh Trudov Gosudarstvennyi Nauchno-Issledovatel'skii Institut Ozernogo i Rechnogo Rybnogo Khozyaistva.</em> 232: 62-70, figs. (Russian with English summary). [details] additional source Likhareva, E.I. (1988). Zhiznenny tsikl Limnocalanus macrurus Sars (Copepoda, Calanoida) v ekosistemakh ozernogo tipa i opredelyayushchie ego faktory. [The life cycle of Limnocalanus macrurus Sars (Copeoda, Calanoida) in lake ecosystems and influencing factors.]. <em>Sbornik Nauchnykh Trudov Gosudarstvennyi Nauchno-Issledovatel'skii Institut Ozernogo i Rechnogo Rybnogo Khozyaistva.</em> 283:121-128, 164, figs. (Russian). [details] additional source Marsh, C.D. (1933). Synopsis of the calanoid crustaceans, exclusive of the Diaptomidae, found in fresh and brackish waters, chiefly of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 82(18)(2959):1-58, pls. 1-24. (30-vi-1933) [details] Available for editors additional source Monchenko, V.I. (1957). Do morfologii V para grudnikh kintsivoku Eurytemora Giesbrecht (Copepoda). [The morphology of thoracic legs V in Eurytemora giesbrechtii (Copepoda).]. <em>Trudy Instituta Zoologii, Kyyiv (Kiev).</em> 14:44-48, fig. 1. (Ukrainian with Russian summary.). [details] Available for editors additional source Patalas, J. & K. Patalas. (1978). Spatial variation in size and reproductive cycle of Limnocalanus macrurus in a deep, subantarctic lake, Great Slave Lake. Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 20(1):150-158, figs. 1-12, tab. 1. (ix-1978) [details] Available for editors additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source Sars, G.O. (1902). Copepoda Calanoida, Parts VII & VIII, Centropagidae, Diaptomidae. <em>An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum.</em> 4:73-96, pls. 49-64. [details] additional source Roff, J.C. (1972). Aspects of the reproductive biology of the planktonic copepod Limnocalanus macrurus Sars, 1863. Crustaceana, Leiden 22(2):155-160, figs. 1-3, pl. 1. (9-iii-1972) [details] Available for editors additional source Roff, J.C. & J.C.H. Carter. (1972). Life cycle and seasonal abundance of the copepod Limnocalanus macrurus Sars in a high arctic lake. <em>Limnology and Oceanography.</em> 17(3):363-370, figs. 1-4, tab. 1. [details] Available for editors additional source Rigler, F.H. & R.R. Langford. (1967). Cogeneric occurrence of species of Diaptomus in southern Ontario lakes. Canadian Journal of Zoology 45:81-90, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-4. (i-1967) [details] Available for editors additional source Schacht, F.W. (1898). The North American Centropagidae belonging to the genera Osphranticum, Limnocalanus, and Epischura. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History 5(4):225-270. [details] additional source Smith, K.E. (1977). The taxonomy and distribution of Ontario copepod Crustacea (Calanoida and Cyclopoida) with keys to the species. <em>M.Sc. Thesis, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.</em> 121 pp. [details] Available for editors additional source Aispure, G. (2002). Dynamics of Limnocalanus macrurus in the Gulf of Riga. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia. [details] additional source Van Hove, P., K.M. Swadling, J.A.E. Gibson, C. Belzile & F. Vincent-Warwick. (2001). Farthest north lake and fjord populations of calanoid copepods Limnocalanus macrurus and Drepanopus bungei in the Canadian high Arctic. Polar Biology 24(5):303-307. [details] Available for editors additional source Vanderploeg, H.A., J.F. Cavaletto, J.R. Liebig & W.S. Gardner. (1998). Limnocalanus macrurus (Copepoda: Calanoida) retains a marine arctic lipid and life cycle strategy in Lake Michigan. Journal of Plankton Research 20(8):1581-1597. [details] Available for editors additional source Veshnovets, V.V. (1989). Stroenie rotovykh kolechoboste i kharakteristika sposoba pitaniya Limnocalanus macrurus Sars (Copepoda, Calanoida). [The structure of the mouthparts and characteristics of the feeding method of Limnocalanus macrurus Sars (Copepoda, Calanoida).]. <em>In: Operativ. inf. mater. k 3 simp. 'Trofich. svyazi i produktiv. vov soobshchestv', Chita, 25-28 sent. 1989. -Chita.</em> :16-17. (Russian.) (Vide:Ref. Zh., Biol./04D 1989(12):33, no. 280). [details] additional source Warren, G.J. (1985). Predaceous feeding habits of Limnocalanus macrurus. <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 7(4):537-552, figs. 1-10. [details] Available for editors additional source Wierzbicka, M. (1953). Limnocalanus macrurus G.O. Sars w jeziorach pólnocno-wschodniej Polski. [Limnocalanus macrurus G.O. Sars in the lakes of north-eastern Poland.]. <em>Fragmenta Faunistica Musei Zoologici Polonici, Warsaw.</em> 6(20):525-540, fig. 1, tabs. 1-3. (16-vii-1953). [details] Available for editors additional source Wong, C.K. & P. Chow-Fraser. (1985). The food of three large freshwater calanoid copepods: Limnocalanus macrurus Sars, Epischura lacustris Forbes, and Senecella calanoides Juday. Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 22(5):3190-3194, figs. 1-3. (vi-1985) [details] Available for editors additional source Yashnova, M.K. (1929). O nakhoozdenii Limnocalanus macrurus v del'te reki Severnoi Dviny. Über das Vorkommen von Limnocalanus macrurus im Delta der Dwina. [On the location of Limnocalanus macrurus in the delta of the Northern Dvina River.]. <em>Russiskii Gidrobiologicheskii Zhurnal, Saratov.</em> 8:304-308, fig. 1, tab. 1. (xi/xii-1929, Russian with German summary). [details] additional source Goudie, K.A. (1985). The diurnal vertical and horizontal distributions and diel vertical migrations of the calanoid copepods Senecella calanoides Juday and Limnocalanus macrurus Sars in a number of lakes of central Ontario and western Quebec. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. [details] additional source Arbaciauskas, K. & D. Kalytyte. (2010). Occurrence and interannual abundance variation of glacial relict calanoids Limnocalanus macrurus and Eurytemora lacustris in Lithuanian lakes. Ledynmecio reliktiniu irklakoju veziagyviu Limnocalanus macrurus ir Eurytemora lacustris paplitimas ir tarpmetine gausumo variacija Lietuvos ezeruose. Acta Zoologica Lituanica 20(1):1392-1657. [In English; abstract in Lithuanian.] [details] Available for editors additional source Healey, M.C., & W.L. Woodall. (1973). Limnological surveys of seven lakes near Yellowknife, West Territories. <em>West Territories - Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Technical Report.</em> 407: 1-34. [details] Available for editors additional source Dahlgren, K., B.R. Olsen, C. Troedsson & U. Båmstedt. (2012). Seasonal variation in wax ester concentration and gut content in a Baltic Sea copepod Limnocalanus macrurus (Sars 1863). <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 34(4):286-297. [details] Available for editors additional source Apollon, S. & J.E. Saros. (2013). The freshwater copepod Limnocalanus macrurus in the canadian arctic archipelago: numbers, weights, and respiration observed from September 1961-July 1962. Arctic 66(1):37-42. [details] Available for editors additional source Fürst, M. (1981). Results of introduction of new fish food organisms into Swedish lakes. <em>Reports of the Institute of Freshwater Research, Drottningholm.</em> 59: 33-47. [details] Available for editors additional source Doubek, J.P. & J.T. Lehman. (2014). Historical trophic position of Limnocalanus macrurus in Lake Michigan. <em>Journal Of Great Lakes Research.</em> 40(4):1027-1032., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2014.09.003 [details] Available for editors additional source Rudstam, L.G., K.T. Holeck, K.L. Bowen, J.M. Watkins, B.C. Weide & F.J. Luckey. (2015). Lake Ontario zooplankton in 2003 and 2008: Community changes and vertical redistribution. <em>Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management.</em> 18(1):43-62., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14634988.2014.965121 [details] Available for editors additional source Livdane, L., I. Putnis, G. Rubene, D. Elferts & A. Ikauniece. (2016). Baltic herring prey selectively on older copepodites of Eurytemora affinis and Limnocalanus macrurus in the Gulf of Riga. Oceanologia, 58(1):46-53., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2015.09.001 [details] additional source Drits, A.V., A.F. Pasternak, A.B. Nikishina, T.N. Semenova, V.M. Sergeeva, A.A. Polukhin & M.V. Flint. (2016). The dominant copepods Senecella siberica and Limnocalanus macrurus in the Ob Estuary: ecology in a high-gradient environment. Polar Biology, 39(9):1527-1538., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-015-1878-6 [details] Available for editors additional source Mäkinen, K., M. Elfving, J. Hänninen, L. Laaksonen, M. Rajasilta, I. Vuorinen & J.P. Suomela. (2017). Fatty acid composition and lipid content in the copepod Limnocalanus macrurus during summer in the southern Bothnian Sea. <em>Helgoland Marine Research.</em> 7:1-12., available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s10152-017-0491-1 [details] Available for editors additional source Einberg, H., R. Klais, G. Rubene, G. Kornilovs, I. Putnis & H. Ojaveer. (2019). Multidecadal dynamics of the Arctic copepod Limnocalanus macrurus in relation to environmental variability in the Baltic Sea. <em>ICES Journal Of Marine Science.</em> 76(7):2427-2436. 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Stable Isotope Analysis of Planktonic Lower Food Webs of Lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan and Superior. <em>Limnological Review.</em> 24(4):506-519., available online at https://doi.org/10.3390/limnolrev24040029 [details] Available for editors  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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