Copepoda taxon details
Landrumius gigas (Scott A., 1909)
344608 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:344608)
accepted
Species
Brachycalanus gigas Scott A., 1909 · unaccepted
Landrumius thorsoni (Bjornberg, 1975) · unaccepted
Lophothrix gigas (Scott A., 1909) · unaccepted
Lophothrix thorsoni Björnberg T.K.S., 1975 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Brachycalanus gigas Scott A., 1909) Scott, A. (1909). The Copepoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part I. Free-swimming, littoral and semi-parasitic Copepoda. <em>Siboga Expeditie, Monograph, Leiden.</em> 29:1-323, pls. 1-69., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2191407#page/11/mode/1up
page(s): 81 [details]
page(s): 81 [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2021). World of Copepods Database. Landrumius gigas (Scott A., 1909). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=344608 on 2026-01-02
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(of Brachycalanus gigas Scott A., 1909) Scott, A. (1909). The Copepoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part I. Free-swimming, littoral and semi-parasitic Copepoda. <em>Siboga Expeditie, Monograph, Leiden.</em> 29:1-323, pls. 1-69., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2191407#page/11/mode/1up
page(s): 81 [details]
original description (of Lophothrix thorsoni Björnberg T.K.S., 1975) Björnberg, T.K.S. (1975). New species of marine bathypelagic copepods collected off South America. Ciência e Cultura, Sao Paulo 27(2):175-188, figs. 1-62. (ii-1975) [details] Available for editors
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context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Vyshkvartzeva, N.V. 2005. Three bathypelagic scolecitrichids new to the North Pacific, with comments on diagnostic features of Scolecitrichidae and Tharybidae and on the positions of Heteramalla, Rythabis and Parkius (Copepoda: Calanoida). Zoosystematica Rossica, Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg 13(2):157-180 (2004). [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): 81 [details]
original description (of Lophothrix thorsoni Björnberg T.K.S., 1975) Björnberg, T.K.S. (1975). New species of marine bathypelagic copepods collected off South America. Ciência e Cultura, Sao Paulo 27(2):175-188, figs. 1-62. (ii-1975) [details] Available for editors
[request]context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Vyshkvartzeva, N.V. 2005. Three bathypelagic scolecitrichids new to the North Pacific, with comments on diagnostic features of Scolecitrichidae and Tharybidae and on the positions of Heteramalla, Rythabis and Parkius (Copepoda: Calanoida). Zoosystematica Rossica, Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg 13(2):157-180 (2004). [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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Habitat Bathypelagic [details]
Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls/OOB/UPMC/CNRS) Note: Including taxonomic identification plates, remarks, geographic distribution, ecological information & reference list
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (5 records) (from synonym Lophothrix gigas (Scott A., 1909))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 150094) (from synonym Lophothrix thorsoni Björnberg T.K.S., 1975)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (5 records) (from synonym Lophothrix gigas (Scott A., 1909))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 150094) (from synonym Lophothrix thorsoni Björnberg T.K.S., 1975)