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Oithona atlantica Farran, 1908 
AphiaID: 106642

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Maxillopoda (Class) > Copepoda (Subclass) > Neocopepoda (Infraclass) > Podoplea (Superorder) > Cyclopoida (Order) > Oithonidae (Family) > Oithona (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Oithona Baird, 1843
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]

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]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Arctic Ocean [details]
Barents Sea [details]
Cosmopolitan (World Oceans) [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 18 [details]
FAO fishing area 67 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North East Pacific [details]
Storfjordrenna [details]
Storfjords [details]
Links Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls)
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Copepod Collection
To ITIS
Note  Closely related to Oithona longispina.
Sometimes confused with Oithona plumifera. [details]
Images 
Oithona similis and Oithona atlantica
Oithona similis and Oithona atlantica
added on 2007-01-30 - author: Slawomir, Kwasniewski
qualitystatus: checked by Walter, T. Chad on 2012-08-24 20:04:53

Oithona atlantica
Oithona atlantica
added on 2011-02-01 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Moira Galbraith ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106642
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Boxshall, Geoff
2008-04-16 14:29:44Z  changed  Kouwenberg, Juliana
  
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  Citation: Kouwenberg, J.; Boxshall, G. (2013). Oithona atlantica Farran, 1908. 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=106642 on 2013-05-22
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