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Oithona similis Claus, 1866 
AphiaID: 106656

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: Bromley, J.E.C., and J.S. Bleakney. 1984. Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report 24119. 366 p.  [details]

additional source: Brunel, P., L. Bosse, and G. Lamarche. 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. [details]

additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details]

additional source: Murphy, J.A. and R.E. Cohen. 1978. A guide to the developmental stages of common coastal, Georges Bank and Gulf of Maine copepods. National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Center. Woods Hole Laboratory, Massachusetts. Woods Hole laboratory r [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: Suárez-Morales, E., J. W. Fleeger, and P. A. Montagna. 2009. Free-Living Copepoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 841–869 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Statio [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Bulgarian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Cosmopolitan (World Oceans) [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Georgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Romanian Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Russian Exclusive economic Zone [Black Sea part] [details]
Turkish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Ukrainian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls)
To GenBank
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Arctic to Cape Cod [details]

Habitat: upper and glacial epipelagic regions of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Image 
Oithona similis and Oithona atlantica
Oithona similis and Oithona atlantica
added on 2007-01-30 - author: Slawomir, Kwasniewski
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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. (2009). Oithona similis Claus, 1866. In: Walter, T.C., Boxshall, G. (Eds) (2009). World Copepoda database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106656 on 2010-09-02
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