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Euphausia pacifica Hansen, 1911 
AphiaID: 237851

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  basis of record: Mauchline, J. and Fisher, L.R. (1969) The Biology of Euphausiids. Advances in Marine Biology 7: 1-454 [details]

basis of record: Baker AdeC, Boden BP, Brinton E (1990) A Practical Guide to the Euphausiids of the World. London : Natural History Museum Publications, 1989 [details]

basis of record: 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]

basis of record: 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]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Pacific krill  [details]
Environment marine
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details]
FAO fishing area 67 [details]
North East Pacific [details]
North Pacific [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (39 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (38 nucleotides; 47 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Euphausid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  distribution: depth in m: 0-1000; horizontal distribution: widespread in boreal north Pacific waters [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
Image 
Euphausia pacifica
Euphausia pacifica
added on 2011-02-01 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Moira Galbraith ()
qualitystatus: checked by Siegel, Volker on 2012-11-08 11:12:36
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:237851
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2007-02-19 08:57:16Z  created  Siegel, Volker
2010-08-02 06:36:54Z  changed  Siegel, Volker
  
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  Citation: Siegel, V. (2013). Euphausia pacifica Hansen, 1911. 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=237851 on 2013-06-19
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