MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Pseudocalanus Boeck, 1873

Copepoda taxon details

Pseudocalanus Boeck, 1873

Pseudocalanus sp. male

AphiaID

104165 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104165)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865) (type by original designation)

Parent

Clausocalanidae Giesbrecht, 1893

Original name

Pseudocalanus Boeck, 1873

Synonymised names

Clausia Boeck, 1865 · unaccepted (synonym)

Lucullus Giesbrecht, 1881 · unaccepted (synonym)

Streptocalanus Brady, 1918 · unaccepted

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Species Pseudocalanus acuspes (Giesbrecht, 1881)
Species Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865)
Species Pseudocalanus mimus Frost, 1989
Species Pseudocalanus minutus (Krøyer, 1845)
1. Subspecies Pseudocalanus minutus gracilis Farran & Vervoort, 1951 accepted as Pseudocalanus minutus (Krøyer, 1845)
2. Subspecies Pseudocalanus minutus elongatus (Boeck, 1865) represented as Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865)
Species Pseudocalanus moultoni Frost, 1989
Species Pseudocalanus newmani Frost, 1989
Species Pseudocalanus armatus Brady, 1878 accepted as Bradyidius armatus (Vanhöffen, 1897)
Species Pseudocalanus armatus Boeck, 1873 accepted as Aetideus armatus (Boeck, 1873)
Species Pseudocalanus gracilis Sars G.O., 1903 accepted as Pseudocalanus minutus (Krøyer, 1845)
Species Pseudocalanus pygmaeus Sars G.O., 1900 accepted as Microcalanus pygmaeus (Sars G.O., 1900)
Species Pseudocalanus clausii (Boeck, 1865) (uncertain > nomen dubium)
Species Pseudocalanus feildeni Norman, 1878 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, Giesbrecht (1893) was uncertain of the genus to which this belongs )
Species Pseudocalanus major Sars G.O., 1900 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Boeck, A. (1873). Nye Slaegter og Arter af Saltvands-Copepoder. [New Genera and Species of Saltwater Copepods. Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania. 1872:35-60. [meddelt i modet den: announced in the fashion for 1872]. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2024). World of Copepods Database. Pseudocalanus Boeck, 1873. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104165 on 2025-04-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Boxshall, Geoff

2005-03-30 12:51:50Z

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Cuvelier, Daphne

2010-07-31 00:31:30Z

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Walter, T. Chad

2015-09-03 06:24:32Z

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Walter, T. Chad

2021-04-06 21:27:26Z

changed

Walter, T. Chad

2024-08-08 12:04:41Z

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Walter, T. Chad

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original description Boeck, A. (1873). Nye Slaegter og Arter af Saltvands-Copepoder. [New Genera and Species of Saltwater Copepods. Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania. 1872:35-60. [meddelt i modet den: announced in the fashion for 1872]. [details]

original description (of Clausia Boeck, 1865) Boeck, A. (1865). Oversigt over de ved Norges Kyster jagttagne Copepoder henhorende til Calanidernes, Cyclopidernes og Harpactidernes Familier. [Overview of the Copepods hunted on the coast of Norway belonging to the families Calanoidae, Cyclopoidae and Harpacticodidae.]. Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania. 1864: 226-282 [for 1864 however published in 1865]. [details]

original description (of Lucullus Giesbrecht, 1881) Giesbrecht, W. (1881). Vorlaufige Mitteilung aus einer Arbeit uber die freilebenden Copepoden des Kieler Hafens. [Preliminary report from a work on the free-living copepods of the Kiel harbor.]. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 4(83):254-258. (16-v-1881). (look up in IMIS) [details]

original description (of Streptocalanus Brady, 1918) Brady, G.S. (1918). Copepoda. Scientific Reports of the Australian Antarctic Expedition. (C)5(3):1-48, pls. 1-15. (v-1918). [details]

basis of record Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 252-268 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]

additional source Robins, J.H. & I.A. McLaren. (1982). Unusual variations in nuclear DNA contents in the marine copepod Pseudocalanus. Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology. 24(5):529-540, figs. 1-5, tabs. 1-2. (French summary). [details] Available for editors

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additional source Corkett, C.J. & I.A. McLaren. (1978). The biology of Pseudocalanus. Advances in Marine Biology 15:1-231, figs. 1-42, tabs. 1-28. [details] Available for editors

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additional source McLaren, I.A. (1965). Some relationships between temperature and egg size, body size, development rate and fecundity, of the copepod Pseudocalanus. Limnology and Oceanography 10(4):528-538. [details] Available for editors

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additional source Aarbakke, O.N.S. (2013). Pseudocalanus (Copepoda: Calanoida) of the North Atlantic Ocean : species composition, environmental preferences and phylogeography. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway (UIT), Tromsø, Norway. 34 pp. [details] Available for editors

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additional source Woods, S.M. (1969). Polyteny and size variation in the copepod, Pseudocalanus, from two semi-landlocked fjords in Baffin Island. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 26:543-556. [details] Available for editors

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additional source ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32. [details]