WoRMS taxon details
Metridia lucens Boeck, 1865
AphiaID: 104633
AphiaID: 104633
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Maxillopoda (Class) > Copepoda (Subclass) > Neocopepoda (Infraclass) > Gymnoplea (Superorder) > Calanoida (Order) > Metridinidae (Family) > Metridia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Metridia Boeck, 1865 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Metridia armata Brady, 1878 Metridia hibernica (Brady & Robertson D., 1873) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
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] basis of record: Grice, G.D. & K. Hulsemann (1967). Bathypelagic calanoid copepods of the Western Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D. C. Vol. 122, No. 3583: 1-67. [details] additional source: Bradford-Grieve, J.M.; Wells, J.B. J.; Ho, J. (2009). Copepoda (Crustacea). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Roff, J.C. 1978. A guide to the marine flora and fauna of the Bay of Fundy: Copepoda: Calanoida. Fisheries and Marine Service Technical Report 823. 27 p. [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Ices Zooplankton sheet n° 32:Copepoda [details] from synonym: Walter, Chad. The world of Copepods. [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Metridia lucens orientalis Beklemishev, 1961 Subspecies Metridia lucens pacifica Beklemishev, 1961 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Barents Sea [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Cosmopolitan (World Oceans) [details] English Channel [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] German Bight [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Nansen Basin [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Storfjordrenna [details] Storfjords [details] Turkish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls) To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life (14 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (100 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (101 nucleotides; 89 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Copepod Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: Bioluminating species, which is rarely observed in copepod species. [details] Distribution: Labrador to Cape Cod [details] Habitat: upper and glacial epipelagic regions of the Gulf and estuary [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104633 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Kouwenberg, J.; Boxshall, G. (2013). Metridia lucens Boeck, 1865. In: Walter, T.C. & Boxshall, G. (2013). World of Copepods database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104633 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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