WoRMS taxon details
Meganyctiphanes norvegica (M. Sars, 1857)
AphiaID: 110690
AphiaID: 110690
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Euphausiacea (Order) > Euphausiidae (Family) > Meganyctiphanes (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Meganyctiphanes Holt & Tattersall, 1905 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Euphausia intermedia (Synonym) Euphausia lanei Holt & Tattersall, 1905 (Synonym) Meganyctiphanes calmani (Synonym) Nyctiphanes norvegicus G.O. Sars, 1883 (synonym) Thysanopoda norvegica (Synonym) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Euphausiacea, 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. 284 (look up in IMIS) [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: 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: Holt, E.W.L. & W.M. Tattersall (1905) Schizopodous Crustacea from the north-east Atlantic slope. - Rep. Sea Inland Fish. Ireland, 1902-1903, pt. 2, app. 4: 99-152, 11 pls [details] additional source: Mauchline, J. and Fisher, L.R. (1969) The Biology of Euphausiids. Advances in Marine Biology 7: 1-454 [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: 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: Mauchline, J.(1971) Euphausiacea Zooplanktonsheet 1,3,4, ICES [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Mauchline, J. (1984). Euphausiid, stomatopod and leptostracan crustaceans: keys and notes for the identification of the species. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 30. E.J. Brill; W. Backhuys: London, UK. ISBN 90-04-07471-6. vii, 91 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Arctic Ocean [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] FAO fishing area 18 [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Hudson Strait [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (31 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (97 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (67 nucleotides; 53 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Euphausid Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
distribution: depth in m: 100-400; horizontal distribution: boreal and arctic Atlantic, Mediterranean [details] Distribution: Arctic to Cape Hatteras [details] Habitat: Floating in open sea, found at depths of 0-500 m . [details] Reproduction: breeding centre in Gulf of Maine [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:110690 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Siegel, V. (2013). Meganyctiphanes norvegica (M. Sars, 1857). In: Siegel, V. (Ed) (2013). World Euphausiacea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=110690 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||||||||
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