WoRMS taxon details
Euphausia superba Dana, 1850
AphiaID: 236217
AphiaID: 236217
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Euphausia antarctica Sars, 1883 (Synonym) Euphausia australis (Synonym) Euphausia glacialis (Synonym) Euphausia murrayi Sars, 1883 (Synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Siegel V, De Broyer C, Clarke A, Koubbi P, Pakhomov E, Scott F, Vanden Berghe W and Danis B (Editors). The SCAR-MarBIN Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS): Euphausiacea, [date accessed]. World Wide Web electronic publication., available online at http://www.scarmarbin.be/ramseuphausiacea.php [details] additional source: Fisher W. & Hureau J-C. (1985). FAO species identification sheets for fishery purposes. Southern Ocean (Fishing areas 48,58 and 88) (CCAMLR Convention Area). FAO, Rome, 233-471. [details] additional source: BOLTOVSKOY D. (Ed.). 1999. South Atlantic Zooplankton 2 vol.. Backhuys Publishers. Leiden. 1706 pp. [details] additional source: Mauchline, J. and Fisher, L.R. (1969) The Biology of Euphausiids. Advances in Marine Biology 7: 1-454 [details] additional source: John DD (1936) The southern species of the genus Euphausia. Discovery Reports 14: 193-324 [details] additional source: Mackintosh, N. A. (1973). "Distribution of post-larval krill in the Antarctic." Discovery Reports 36: 95-156. [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] original description (from synonym): 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] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
| |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Antarctic Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life (493 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (79 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Species fact sheets To GenBank (7645 nucleotides; 878 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Euphausid Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Distribution: depth in m: in summer usually 0 - 200 m, in winter down to 350 m; sometimes recorded as deep as 600 m; horizontal distribution: Antarctic, circumpolar south of Polar Front [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Images |
| |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:236217 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
| |||||||||||||||||||
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Citation: Siegel, V. (2013). Euphausia superba Dana, 1850. 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=236217 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License |
