WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Euphausia superba Dana 1850

Euphausia superba Dana 1850
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

Added by Database Management Team

Rank

Species

Parent

Euphausia Dana, 1850

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]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
English	Antarctic krill	[details]

Environment

marine

Distribution

Antarctic Ocean [details]
Denmark [details]
Finland [details]
France [details]
Germany [details]
Iceland [details]
Italy [details]
Japan [details]
Netherlands [details]
Norway [details]
Russia [details]
Spain [details]
Sweden [details]
United Kingdom [details]

Links

To GenBank
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Barcode of Life (54 barcodes)
To ITIS

Note

distribution: depth in m: 0 - 200; horizontal distribution: Antarctic, circumpolar south of Polar Front [details]

Images

Euphausia superba
added on 2007-01-09 - author: Volker Siegel
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Euphausia superba
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Euphausia superba
added on 2007-05-25 - author: Martin Rauschert
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Krill (Euphausia superba)
added on 2007-05-27 - author: Martin Rauschert
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Amazing Diversity. Marine life of Antarctica - From the surface to the abyssal plain.
added on 2008-08-17 - author: Torben Riehl, Nils Brenke, Hauke Flores, Michael Schroedl and Rebeca Zapata Guardiola (

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Euphausia superba
added on 2008-11-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Hansen (1908, plaat 1)
added on 2009-08-19 - author: H. J. Hansen
scan provided by VLIZ - www.wetenschatten.be
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Edit
history

Date	action	by
2007-01-08 09:37:03 GMT	created	Charbonneau, Danny

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Citation: WoRMS (2009). Euphausia superba Dana 1850. In: Siegel, V. (Ed) (2009). World Euphausiacea database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=236217 on 2010-02-09

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