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Euphausia gibba G. O. Sars, 1883 
AphiaID: 237855

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: 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]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine
Fossil range recent only
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Euphausid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  distribution: depth in m: 0-600; horizontal distribution: limited to the subtropical South Pacific [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
Image 
Euphausia gibba group
Euphausia gibba group
added on 2011-03-30 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada ()
qualitystatus: checked by Siegel, Volker on 2012-11-26 08:37:48
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:237855
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2007-02-19 09:48:14Z  created  Siegel, Volker
2010-08-02 06:36:54Z  changed  Siegel, Volker
  
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  Citation: Siegel, V. (2013). Euphausia gibba G. O. Sars, 1883. 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=237855 on 2013-05-22
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