Deep-Sea taxon details
Euphausia similis G.O. Sars, 1883
221048 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:221048)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Sars, G.O. (1884). Preliminary notices on the Schizopoda of H.M.S. Challenger Expedition. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania.</em> 1883 (7): 1-43., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43842640 [details] 
distribution depth in m: 300; horizontal distribution: sub-Antarctic, circumpolar, north of Sub-Antarctic front between about 25-55°S,...
distribution depth in m: <300; horizontal distribution: sub-Antarctic, circumpolar, north of Sub-Antarctic front between about 25-55°S, western North Pacific, northward into the Kuroshio Current [details]
Siegel, V.; De Grave, S. (Ed) (2025). World Euphausiacea Database. Euphausia similis G.O. Sars, 1883. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=221048 on 2026-09-04
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Euphausia similis G.O. Sars, 1883. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=221048 on 2026-09-04
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Sars, G.O. (1884). Preliminary notices on the Schizopoda of H.M.S. Challenger Expedition. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania.</em> 1883 (7): 1-43., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43842640 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record NODC. (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes. [details]
additional source Baker AdeC, Boden BP, Brinton E (1990) A Practical Guide to the Euphausiids of the World. London : Natural History Museum Publications, 1989 [details]
additional source Boden, BP., Johnson, W., Brinton E., (2000). The Euphausiacea (Crustacea) of the North Pacific. Bulletin of the Scrips Institution of Oceanography of the Universuty of Californis, 6,8:287-400 [details]
additional source Boltovskoy D. (Ed.). (1999). South Atlantic Zooplankton 2 vol. Backhuys Publishers. Leiden. 1706 pp. [details] Available for editors
additional source Brinton E, Ohman MD, Townsend AW, Knight MD, Bridgeman AL (2000) Euphausiids of the world ocean. ETI World Biodiversity database CD ROM Series. Springer Publ. Heidelberg [details]
additional source Hunt, B.P.V. & E.A. Pakhomov. (2003). Mesozooplankton interactions with the shelf around the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands archipelago. Journal of Plankton Research 25(8): 885-904., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/25.8.885 [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 Mauchline, J. and Fisher, L.R. (1969) The Biology of Euphausiids. Advances in Marine Biology 7: 1-454 [details]
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
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record NODC. (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes. [details]
additional source Baker AdeC, Boden BP, Brinton E (1990) A Practical Guide to the Euphausiids of the World. London : Natural History Museum Publications, 1989 [details]
additional source Boden, BP., Johnson, W., Brinton E., (2000). The Euphausiacea (Crustacea) of the North Pacific. Bulletin of the Scrips Institution of Oceanography of the Universuty of Californis, 6,8:287-400 [details]
additional source Boltovskoy D. (Ed.). (1999). South Atlantic Zooplankton 2 vol. Backhuys Publishers. Leiden. 1706 pp. [details] Available for editors
additional source Brinton E, Ohman MD, Townsend AW, Knight MD, Bridgeman AL (2000) Euphausiids of the world ocean. ETI World Biodiversity database CD ROM Series. Springer Publ. Heidelberg [details]
additional source Hunt, B.P.V. & E.A. Pakhomov. (2003). Mesozooplankton interactions with the shelf around the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands archipelago. Journal of Plankton Research 25(8): 885-904., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/25.8.885 [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 Mauchline, J. and Fisher, L.R. (1969) The Biology of Euphausiids. Advances in Marine Biology 7: 1-454 [details]
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
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
distribution depth in m: <300; horizontal distribution: sub-Antarctic, circumpolar, north of Sub-Antarctic front between about 25-55°S, western North Pacific, northward into the Kuroshio Current [details]Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
