Deep-Sea taxon details
Nannocalanus minor (Claus, 1863)
104469 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104469)
accepted
Species
Calanus minor (Claus, 1863) · unaccepted
Calanus valgus Brady, 1883 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Claus, C. (1863). Ueber einige Schizopoden und niedere Malakostraken Messina's. [On some Schizopods and lower Malacostracans of Messina.]. <em>Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 13: 422-454.
page(s): 172 [details]
page(s): 172 [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Nannocalanus minor (Claus, 1863). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104469 on 2026-01-29
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Nannocalanus minor (Claus, 1863). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104469 on 2026-01-29
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(of Calanus valgus Brady, 1883) Brady, G.S. (1883). Report on the Copepoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-76, Zoology.</em> 8 (part 23): 1-142, pl. 1-55., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39439478#page/1/mode/1up [details]
original description (of ) Claus, C. (1863). Ueber einige Schizopoden und niedere Malakostraken Messina's. [On some Schizopods and lower Malacostracans of Messina.]. <em>Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 13: 422-454.
page(s): 172 [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) Moore, H.B. (1949). The zooplankton of the upper waters of the Bermuda area of the North Atlantic. Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection 12(2):1-97, figs. 1-208. (i-1949) [details] Available for editors
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 Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
additional source Grice, G.D. & K. Hulsemann. (1967). Bathypelagic calanoid copepods of the western Indian Ocean. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 122(3583):1-67, figs. 1-319., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.122-3583.1 [details] Available for editors
additional source Ashjian, C.J. & K.F. Wishner. (1993). Temporal and spatial changes in body size and reproductive state of Nannocalanus minor (Copepoda) females across and along the Gulf Stream. <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 15(1):67-98., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/15.1.67 [details] Available for editors
additional source Alameda de la Mora, G. (1980). Sistemática y distribución de los copépodos (Crustacea) del Golfo de Tehuantepec (México). [Sistemática y distribución de los copépodos (Crustacea) del Golfo de Tehuantepec (México).]. <em>Tesis Profesional, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónomo de México, Mexico City.</em> 397 pp. + 126 pls. [details] Available for editors
additional source Andronov, V.N. (2001). On the taxonomy of the genus Nannocalanus Sars, 1925 (Crustacea, Copepoda: Calanidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 9(2):277-283. [details] Available for editors
additional source Andronov, V.N., N.A. Kazus, V.F. Grudina & S.G. Matviy. (2006). Nannocalanus minor (Claus, 1863) (Crustacea: Calanoida: Calanidae) from the Sicilian Channel of the Mediterranean Sea. Arthropoda Selecta 15(1):1-8. [details] Available for editors
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
additional source Bucklin, A., T.C. Lajeunesse, E. Curry, J. Wallinga & K. Garrison. (1996). Molecular diversity of the copepod Nannocalanus minor: genetic evidence of species and population structure in the North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Marine Research 54:285-310. [details] Available for editors
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
additional source Vervoort, W. (1963). Pelagic Copepoda. Part I. Copepoda Calanoida of the families Calanidae up to and including Euchaetidae. Atlantide Report No.7: Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa 1945-1946. 7:77-194, figs. 1-23. (30-xii-1963) [details] Available for editors
additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors
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
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).
page(s): 42-44 [details] Available for editors
additional source Hirai, J., S. Shimode & A. Tsuda. (2013). Evaluation of ITS2-28S as a molecular marker for identification of calanoid copepods in the subtropical western North Pacific. Journal of Plankton Research 35(3):644-656. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbt016 [details] Available for editors
additional source Schukat, A., L. Teuber, W. Hagen, N. Wasmund & H. Auel. (2013). Energetics and carbon budgets of dominant calanoid copepods in the northern Benguela upwelling system. <em>Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.</em> 442:1-9., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2013.01.024 [details] Available for editors
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
additional source Paulmier, G. (2014). Les copepodes Calanoida (Neocopepoda, Gymnoplea) dans les eaux normandes et bretonnes de la Manche et de l'Atlantiques. Sections of Amphascandria and Isokerandria. [Copepods Calanoida (Neocopepoda, Gymnoplea) in Normandy and Brittany waters of the English Channel and the Atlantic. 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
additional source Santhanam, P., K. Jothiraj, N. Jeyaraj, S. Jeyanthi, A.S. Devi & S. Ananth. (2015). Effect of monoalgal diet on the growth, survival and egg production in Nannocalanus minor (Copepoda: Calanoida). <em>Indian Journal Of Geo-Marine Sciences.</em> 44(10):1579-1584. [details] Available for editors
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32. [details]
additional source Salinas Cadena, M.E. (2007). Abundancia, distribución y variación temporal de copépodos marinos (Calanoideos, harpacticoideos, cyclopoideos, poecilostomatoideos y monstrilloideos), en aguas costeras de la Bahía de Santa Elena: La Libertad durante octubre 2004/octubre 2005. [Abundance, distribution and temporal variation of marine copepods (Calanoids, Harpacticoids, Cyclopoids, Poecilostomatoids and Monstrelloids) in coastal waters of Santa Elena Bay: La Libertad during October 2004/October 2005.]. <em>Tesis de Biología Marina, Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, La Libertad, Ecuador.</em> 261 pp. [In Spanish; English abstract]., available online at https://repositorio.upse.edu.ec/handle/46000/829 [details] Available for editors
additional source Bucklin, A. (1998). Molecular analysis of biogeographic patterns and processes: the copepod Nanocalanus minor in the N. Atlantic Ocean. <em>In: Pierrot-Bults, A.C. & S. van der Spoel (eds.). Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pelagic Biogeography (ICoPB II), UNESCO, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 9 July-14 July 1995, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Workshop Report, 387 pp. No. 142:65-77.</em> 142:78-85. [details] Available for editors
additional source Jothiraj, K., P. Raju, P. Santhanam, S. Ananth, S.D. Kumar, N. Jeyaraj, A.S. Devi & N. Krishnaveni. (2021). Mass Culture of Marine Copepod Nannocalanus minor. <em>Indian Journal of Natural Sciences.</em> 12 (65) :29713 - 29721., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7953-5_8 [details] Available for editors
additional source Jothiraj, K. & P. Santhanam. (2019). Optimisation of the Culture Conditions of Nannocalanus minor (Copepoda: Calanoida). <em>In: Santhanam, P., A. Begum & P. Pachiappan (eds.). Basic and Applied Zooplankton Biology, Springer Nature Singapore, 442 pp.</em> :225-246., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7953-5_8 [details] Available for editors
additional source Cobo, R., P. Hidalgo, P. Fierro-González & P. Ruz-Moreno. (2024). Diel vertical migration of Nannocalanus minor and Eucalanus inermis (Copepoda: Calanoidea) associated with the oxygen minimum zone in northern Chile. <em>Latin American Journal Of Aquatic Research.</em> 52(2):220-232., available online at https://doi.org/10.3856/vol52-issue2-fulltext-3074 [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
original description (of ) Claus, C. (1863). Ueber einige Schizopoden und niedere Malakostraken Messina's. [On some Schizopods and lower Malacostracans of Messina.]. <em>Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 13: 422-454.
page(s): 172 [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) Moore, H.B. (1949). The zooplankton of the upper waters of the Bermuda area of the North Atlantic. Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection 12(2):1-97, figs. 1-208. (i-1949) [details] Available for editors
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 Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
additional source Grice, G.D. & K. Hulsemann. (1967). Bathypelagic calanoid copepods of the western Indian Ocean. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 122(3583):1-67, figs. 1-319., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.122-3583.1 [details] Available for editors
additional source Ashjian, C.J. & K.F. Wishner. (1993). Temporal and spatial changes in body size and reproductive state of Nannocalanus minor (Copepoda) females across and along the Gulf Stream. <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 15(1):67-98., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/15.1.67 [details] Available for editors
additional source Alameda de la Mora, G. (1980). Sistemática y distribución de los copépodos (Crustacea) del Golfo de Tehuantepec (México). [Sistemática y distribución de los copépodos (Crustacea) del Golfo de Tehuantepec (México).]. <em>Tesis Profesional, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónomo de México, Mexico City.</em> 397 pp. + 126 pls. [details] Available for editors
additional source Andronov, V.N. (2001). On the taxonomy of the genus Nannocalanus Sars, 1925 (Crustacea, Copepoda: Calanidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 9(2):277-283. [details] Available for editors
additional source Andronov, V.N., N.A. Kazus, V.F. Grudina & S.G. Matviy. (2006). Nannocalanus minor (Claus, 1863) (Crustacea: Calanoida: Calanidae) from the Sicilian Channel of the Mediterranean Sea. Arthropoda Selecta 15(1):1-8. [details] Available for editors
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
additional source Bucklin, A., T.C. Lajeunesse, E. Curry, J. Wallinga & K. Garrison. (1996). Molecular diversity of the copepod Nannocalanus minor: genetic evidence of species and population structure in the North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Marine Research 54:285-310. [details] Available for editors
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
additional source Vervoort, W. (1963). Pelagic Copepoda. Part I. Copepoda Calanoida of the families Calanidae up to and including Euchaetidae. Atlantide Report No.7: Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa 1945-1946. 7:77-194, figs. 1-23. (30-xii-1963) [details] Available for editors
additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors
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
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).
page(s): 42-44 [details] Available for editors
additional source Hirai, J., S. Shimode & A. Tsuda. (2013). Evaluation of ITS2-28S as a molecular marker for identification of calanoid copepods in the subtropical western North Pacific. Journal of Plankton Research 35(3):644-656. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbt016 [details] Available for editors
additional source Schukat, A., L. Teuber, W. Hagen, N. Wasmund & H. Auel. (2013). Energetics and carbon budgets of dominant calanoid copepods in the northern Benguela upwelling system. <em>Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.</em> 442:1-9., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2013.01.024 [details] Available for editors
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
additional source Paulmier, G. (2014). Les copepodes Calanoida (Neocopepoda, Gymnoplea) dans les eaux normandes et bretonnes de la Manche et de l'Atlantiques. Sections of Amphascandria and Isokerandria. [Copepods Calanoida (Neocopepoda, Gymnoplea) in Normandy and Brittany waters of the English Channel and the Atlantic. 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
additional source Santhanam, P., K. Jothiraj, N. Jeyaraj, S. Jeyanthi, A.S. Devi & S. Ananth. (2015). Effect of monoalgal diet on the growth, survival and egg production in Nannocalanus minor (Copepoda: Calanoida). <em>Indian Journal Of Geo-Marine Sciences.</em> 44(10):1579-1584. [details] Available for editors
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32. [details]
additional source Salinas Cadena, M.E. (2007). Abundancia, distribución y variación temporal de copépodos marinos (Calanoideos, harpacticoideos, cyclopoideos, poecilostomatoideos y monstrilloideos), en aguas costeras de la Bahía de Santa Elena: La Libertad durante octubre 2004/octubre 2005. [Abundance, distribution and temporal variation of marine copepods (Calanoids, Harpacticoids, Cyclopoids, Poecilostomatoids and Monstrelloids) in coastal waters of Santa Elena Bay: La Libertad during October 2004/October 2005.]. <em>Tesis de Biología Marina, Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, La Libertad, Ecuador.</em> 261 pp. [In Spanish; English abstract]., available online at https://repositorio.upse.edu.ec/handle/46000/829 [details] Available for editors
additional source Bucklin, A. (1998). Molecular analysis of biogeographic patterns and processes: the copepod Nanocalanus minor in the N. Atlantic Ocean. <em>In: Pierrot-Bults, A.C. & S. van der Spoel (eds.). Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pelagic Biogeography (ICoPB II), UNESCO, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 9 July-14 July 1995, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Workshop Report, 387 pp. No. 142:65-77.</em> 142:78-85. [details] Available for editors
additional source Jothiraj, K., P. Raju, P. Santhanam, S. Ananth, S.D. Kumar, N. Jeyaraj, A.S. Devi & N. Krishnaveni. (2021). Mass Culture of Marine Copepod Nannocalanus minor. <em>Indian Journal of Natural Sciences.</em> 12 (65) :29713 - 29721., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7953-5_8 [details] Available for editors
additional source Jothiraj, K. & P. Santhanam. (2019). Optimisation of the Culture Conditions of Nannocalanus minor (Copepoda: Calanoida). <em>In: Santhanam, P., A. Begum & P. Pachiappan (eds.). Basic and Applied Zooplankton Biology, Springer Nature Singapore, 442 pp.</em> :225-246., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7953-5_8 [details] Available for editors
additional source Cobo, R., P. Hidalgo, P. Fierro-González & P. Ruz-Moreno. (2024). Diel vertical migration of Nannocalanus minor and Eucalanus inermis (Copepoda: Calanoidea) associated with the oxygen minimum zone in northern Chile. <em>Latin American Journal Of Aquatic Research.</em> 52(2):220-232., available online at https://doi.org/10.3856/vol52-issue2-fulltext-3074 [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
Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls/OOB/UPMC/CNRS) Note: Including taxonomic identification plates, remarks, geographic distribution, ecological information & reference list
To Barcode of Life (64 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Calanus valgus Brady, 1883)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (64 publications) (from synonym Calanus minor (Claus, 1863))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Nannocalanus minor)
To GenBank (74 nucleotides; 47 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Calanus minor (Claus, 1863))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Calanus valgus Brady, 1883)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (10 records) (from synonym Calanus minor (Claus, 1863))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (71 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 101446)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (64 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Calanus valgus Brady, 1883)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (64 publications) (from synonym Calanus minor (Claus, 1863))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Nannocalanus minor)
To GenBank (74 nucleotides; 47 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Calanus minor (Claus, 1863))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Calanus valgus Brady, 1883)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (10 records) (from synonym Calanus minor (Claus, 1863))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (71 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 101446)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
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