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Euphausia similis G.O. Sars, 1885 
AphiaID: 221048

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Euphausiacea (Order) > Euphausiidae (Family) > Euphausia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Euphausia Dana, 1850
Sources  original description: Sars, G.O. (1883). Preliminary notices on the Schizopoda of H.M.S. Challenger Expedition Forh. Videnskabsselsk. Kristiania 7: 1-43 (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: NODC (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes [details]

additional source: BOLTOVSKOY D. (Ed.). 1999. South Atlantic Zooplankton 2 vol.. Backhuys Publishers. Leiden. 1706 pp. [details]

additional source: Hunt, B. P. V. and E. A. Pakhomov (2003) Mesozooplankton interactions with the shelf around the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands archipelago." Journal of Plankton Research 25(8): 885-904. [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: Boden, BP., Johnson, W., Brinton E., (2000). The Euphausiacea (Crustacea) of the North Pacific. Bulletin of the Scrips Institution of Oceanography of the Universuty of Californis, 6,8:287-400 [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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 Variety Euphausia similis var. armata
Environment marine
Distribution New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Subantarctic Isles [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Euphausid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  distribution: depth in m: <300; horizontal distribution: sub-Antarctic, circumpolar, north of Sub-Antarctic front between about 25-55°S, western North Pacific, northward into the Kuroshio Current [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:221048
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1998-08-31 15:22:18Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-03-02 17:11:18Z  checked  Siegel, Volker
2010-08-02 06:36:54Z  changed  Siegel, Volker
  
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  Citation: Siegel, V. (2013). Euphausia similis G.O. Sars, 1885. 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=221048 on 2013-05-23
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