WoRMS taxon details
Calanus simillimus Giesbrecht, 1902
342436 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342436)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Giesbrecht, W. (1902). Zoologie Copepoden. <em>In: Résultats du voyage du S.Y. Belgica en 1897-1898-1899. Rapports scientifiques publiés aux frais du Government Belge.</em> :1-49, pls. 1-13. [details] 
Depth range epi-mesopelagic
Depth range epi-mesopelagic [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Calanus simillimus Giesbrecht, 1902. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342436 on 2025-10-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Giesbrecht, W. (1902). Zoologie Copepoden. <em>In: Résultats du voyage du S.Y. Belgica en 1897-1898-1899. Rapports scientifiques publiés aux frais du Government Belge.</em> :1-49, pls. 1-13. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Brun, P., M.R. Payne & T. Kiørboe. (2017). A trait database for marine copepods. <em>Earth System Science Data.</em> 9(1):99-113., available online at https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-99-2017 [details] Available for editors 
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context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Mazzocchi, M.G., G. Zagami, A. Ianora, L. Guglielmo, N. Crescenti & J. Hure. (1995). Copepods. <em>In: Guglielmo, L. & A. Ianora (eds.). Atlas of Marine Zooplankton, Straits of Magellan. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, New York.</em> 279 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Miralto, A., A. Ianora, L. Guglielmo, G. Zagami & I. Buttino. (1998). Egg production and hatching success in the peri-Antarctic copepod Calanus simillimus. Journal of Plankton Research 20(12):2369-2378. xii.1998) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ward, P. & R.S. Shreeve. (1998). Egg hatching time of Antarctic copepods. Polar Biology 19:142-144. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ward, P., R.S. Shreeve & G.C. Cripps. (1996). Rhincalanus gigas and Calanus simillimus: lipid storage patterns of two species of copepod in the seasonally ice-free zone of the Southern Ocean. <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 18(8):1439-1454. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ramírez, F.C. & M.E. Sabatini. (2000). The occurrence of Calanidae species in waters off Argentina. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 439(1-3):21-42., available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004193401931 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lee, B.D. (1966). Distribution and abundance of pelagic copepods in the Drake Passage and off the coast of Argentina, with special reference to hydrology of these areas. Ph.D. Thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1-250, pls. 1-56. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Mazzocchi, M.G., G. Zagami, A. Ianora, L. Guglielmo, N. Crescenti & J. Hure. (1995). Copepods. <em>In: Guglielmo, L. & A. Ianora (eds.). Atlas of Marine Zooplankton, Straits of Magellan. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, New York.</em> 279 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Miralto, A., A. Ianora, L. Guglielmo, G. Zagami & I. Buttino. (1998). Egg production and hatching success in the peri-Antarctic copepod Calanus simillimus. Journal of Plankton Research 20(12):2369-2378. xii.1998) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ward, P. & R.S. Shreeve. (1998). Egg hatching time of Antarctic copepods. Polar Biology 19:142-144. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ward, P., R.S. Shreeve & G.C. Cripps. (1996). Rhincalanus gigas and Calanus simillimus: lipid storage patterns of two species of copepod in the seasonally ice-free zone of the Southern Ocean. <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 18(8):1439-1454. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ramírez, F.C. & M.E. Sabatini. (2000). The occurrence of Calanidae species in waters off Argentina. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 439(1-3):21-42., available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004193401931 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lee, B.D. (1966). Distribution and abundance of pelagic copepods in the Drake Passage and off the coast of Argentina, with special reference to hydrology of these areas. Ph.D. Thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1-250, pls. 1-56. [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From regional or thematic species database
Depth range epi-mesopelagic [details]Morphology very similar to to Calanus propinquus [details]
Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls/OOB/UPMC/CNRS) Note: Including taxonomic identification plates, remarks, geographic distribution, ecological information & reference list
To Barcode of Life (27 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Calanus simillimus)
To GenBank (71 nucleotides; 74 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (4 records)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (27 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Calanus simillimus)
To GenBank (71 nucleotides; 74 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (4 records)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
