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Acartia forcipata Thompson I.C. & Scott A., In Thompson, Scott & Herdman, 1898 
AphiaID: 157663

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Maxillopoda (Class) > Copepoda (Subclass) > Neocopepoda (Infraclass) > Gymnoplea (Superorder) > Calanoida (Order) > Acartiidae (Family) > Acartia (Genus)
Status alternate representation
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Acartia (Acartia) forcipata Thompson I.C. & Scott A., 1897
Rank Species
Parent Acartia Dana, 1846
Sources  original description: Thompson, I.C. & A. Scott. 1898. Notes on new and other Copepoda. In: Herdman, W.A., I.C. Thompson & A. Scott (eds.). On the plankton collected continuously during two traverses of the North Atlantic in the summer of 1897; with descriptions of new species of Copepoda; and an appendix on dredging in Puget Sound. Proceedi 12:71-82, pls. 5-7. [details]

basis of record: 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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region); lower St. Lawrence estuary [details]

Habitat: upper region epipelagic of the Gulf and estuary [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157663
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-05-24 07:32:08Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-06-27 08:45:14Z  changed  Kouwenberg, Juliana
  
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  Citation: Kouwenberg, J. (2013). Acartia forcipata Thompson I.C. & Scott A., In Thompson, Scott & Herdman, 1898. 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=157663 on 2013-05-24
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