WoRMS taxon details
Candacia armata Boeck, 1873
104474 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104474)
accepted
Species
Candace armata Boeck, 1873 · unaccepted
Candace pectinata Brady, 1878 · unaccepted
Candacia pectinata Brady, 1878 · unaccepted (listed as synonym by Grice, 1963)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Boeck, A. (1873). Nye Slaegter og Arter af Saltvands-Copepoder. [New Genera and Species of Saltwater Copepods. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania.</em> 1872:35-60. [meddelt i modet den: announced in the fashion for 1872].
page(s): 39 [details]
page(s): 39 [details]
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence to Chesapeake Bay
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence to Chesapeake Bay [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2026). World of Copepods Database. Candacia armata Boeck, 1873. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104474 on 2026-01-17
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Nomenclature
original description
Boeck, A. (1873). Nye Slaegter og Arter af Saltvands-Copepoder. [New Genera and Species of Saltwater Copepods. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania.</em> 1872:35-60. [meddelt i modet den: announced in the fashion for 1872].
page(s): 39 [details]
original description (of Candacia pectinata Brady, 1878) Brady, G.S. (1878). A monograph of the free and semi-parasitic Copepoda of the British Islands. <em>Ray Society, London.</em> 1:1-148, pls. 1-33. (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Candace pectinata Brady, 1878) Brady, G.S. (1878). A monograph of the free and semi-parasitic Copepoda of the British Islands. <em>Ray Society, London.</em> 1:1-148, pls. 1-33. (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Candace armata Boeck, 1873) Boeck, A. (1873). Nye Slaegter og Arter af Saltvands-Copepoder. [New Genera and Species of Saltwater Copepods. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania.</em> 1872:35-60. [meddelt i modet den: announced in the fashion for 1872]. [details]
basis of record Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 252-268 (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 39 [details]
original description (of Candacia pectinata Brady, 1878) Brady, G.S. (1878). A monograph of the free and semi-parasitic Copepoda of the British Islands. <em>Ray Society, London.</em> 1:1-148, pls. 1-33. (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Candace pectinata Brady, 1878) Brady, G.S. (1878). A monograph of the free and semi-parasitic Copepoda of the British Islands. <em>Ray Society, London.</em> 1:1-148, pls. 1-33. (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Candace armata Boeck, 1873) Boeck, A. (1873). Nye Slaegter og Arter af Saltvands-Copepoder. [New Genera and Species of Saltwater Copepods. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania.</em> 1872:35-60. [meddelt i modet den: announced in the fashion for 1872]. [details]
basis of record Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 252-268 (look up in IMIS) [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]
context source (BeRMS 2020) Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2015): Zooplankton monitoring in the Belgian Part of the North Sea between 2009 and 2010. [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Roff, J.C. (1978). A guide to the marine flora and fauna of the Bay of Fundy: Copepoda: Calanoida. Fisheries and Marine Service Technical Report 823. 27 p. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bernard, M. (1964). Le développement nauplien de deux Copépodes carnivores: Euchaeta marina (Prestandr.) et Candacia armata (Boeck) et observations sur le cycle de l'astaxanthine au cours de l'ontogenèse. [The nauplius development of two carnivorous copepods: Euchaeta marina (Prestandr.) and Candacia armata (Boeck) and observations on the astaxanthin cycle during ontogeny.]. <em>Pelagos.</em> 2(1):51-70, figs. 1-3, pls. 1-2. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bernard, M. (1964). Observations sur la ponte et développement larvaire en aquarium d'un Copépode pélagique prédateur: Candacia armata Boeck. [Observations on the spawning and larval development in aquarium of a predatory pelagic copepod: Candacia armata Boeck.]. <em>Rapports et Procès-Verbaux des Réunions de la Commission Internationale pour l'Exploration Scientifique de la Mer Mediterranée, Monaco.</em> 18:345-348. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Corten, A. (1983). Predation on herring larvae by the copepod Candacia armata. <em>ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) Council Meeting.</em> 1983/H:20:1-3, 1 tab., 1 fig. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Linko, A.K. (1907). Untersuchungen über das Plankton des Barents Meeres. [Investigations on the plankton of the Barents Sea.]. <em>Wissenschaftlich praktische Murman Expedition, St. Petersburg.</em> :1-247, figs.1-21. [details]
additional source Nival, S. & P. Nival. (1978). Étude préliminaire, au Microscope électronique balayage, du rôle des appendices céphaliques dans la nutrition chez deux copépodes pélagiques, Temora stylifera Dana et Candacia armata Boeck. [Preliminary study, using a scanning electron microscope, of the role of cephalic appendages in nutrition in two pelagic copepods, Temora stylifera Dana and Candacia armata Boeck.]. <em>Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale.</em> 119:83-94, fig. 1, pl. 1. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pesta, O. (1928). Krebstiere oder Crustacea. I: Ruderfüsser oder Copepoda (1. Calanoida, 2. Cyclopoida) (3. Ordnung) [Crustaceans or Crustacea. I: Copepods (1. Calanoida, 2. Cyclopoida) (3rd order).]. <em>In: Dahl, F. (ed.). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der Angrenzenden Meeresteile nach Ihren Merkmalen und nach Ihrer Lebensweise. Fischer, Jena.</em> 9:1-136, figs. 1-115. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sars, G.O. (1902). Copepoda Calanoida, Parts XI & XII, Heterorhabdidae (continued), Arietellidae, Pseudocyclopidae, Candaciidae, Pontellidae. <em>An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum.</em> 4: 121-171 pls. 81-96. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Sars, G.O. (1902). Copepoda Calanoida, Parts IX & X, Temoridae, Metridiidae, Heterorhabdidae. <em>An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum.</em> 4: 97-120, pls. 65-80. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Sazhina, L.I. (1985). Naupliusy massovykh vidov pelagickeskikh kopepod Mirovogo okeana. [Nauplii of mass species pelagic copeopds of the world ocean.]. <em>Naukova Dumka, Kiev.</em> 238 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32. [details]
additional source Wilson, C.B. (1932). The copepods of the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 158:1-635, figs. 1-316, pls. 1-41. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Paulmier, G. (2016). Les Copépodes (Crustacea, Calanoida) des eaux côtières et estuariennes de la Bretagne et de la Normandie. Section des Heterarthrandria. [Copepoda (Crustacea, Calanoida) from coastal and estuaries waters of the Brittany and Normandy, Section Heterarthrandria.]. <em>Bulletin de la Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux.</em> 151, n.ser. 44(2/3):317-335. [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (BeRMS 2020) Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2015): Zooplankton monitoring in the Belgian Part of the North Sea between 2009 and 2010. [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Roff, J.C. (1978). A guide to the marine flora and fauna of the Bay of Fundy: Copepoda: Calanoida. Fisheries and Marine Service Technical Report 823. 27 p. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bernard, M. (1964). Le développement nauplien de deux Copépodes carnivores: Euchaeta marina (Prestandr.) et Candacia armata (Boeck) et observations sur le cycle de l'astaxanthine au cours de l'ontogenèse. [The nauplius development of two carnivorous copepods: Euchaeta marina (Prestandr.) and Candacia armata (Boeck) and observations on the astaxanthin cycle during ontogeny.]. <em>Pelagos.</em> 2(1):51-70, figs. 1-3, pls. 1-2. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bernard, M. (1964). Observations sur la ponte et développement larvaire en aquarium d'un Copépode pélagique prédateur: Candacia armata Boeck. [Observations on the spawning and larval development in aquarium of a predatory pelagic copepod: Candacia armata Boeck.]. <em>Rapports et Procès-Verbaux des Réunions de la Commission Internationale pour l'Exploration Scientifique de la Mer Mediterranée, Monaco.</em> 18:345-348. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Corten, A. (1983). Predation on herring larvae by the copepod Candacia armata. <em>ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) Council Meeting.</em> 1983/H:20:1-3, 1 tab., 1 fig. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Linko, A.K. (1907). Untersuchungen über das Plankton des Barents Meeres. [Investigations on the plankton of the Barents Sea.]. <em>Wissenschaftlich praktische Murman Expedition, St. Petersburg.</em> :1-247, figs.1-21. [details]
additional source Nival, S. & P. Nival. (1978). Étude préliminaire, au Microscope électronique balayage, du rôle des appendices céphaliques dans la nutrition chez deux copépodes pélagiques, Temora stylifera Dana et Candacia armata Boeck. [Preliminary study, using a scanning electron microscope, of the role of cephalic appendages in nutrition in two pelagic copepods, Temora stylifera Dana and Candacia armata Boeck.]. <em>Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale.</em> 119:83-94, fig. 1, pl. 1. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pesta, O. (1928). Krebstiere oder Crustacea. I: Ruderfüsser oder Copepoda (1. Calanoida, 2. Cyclopoida) (3. Ordnung) [Crustaceans or Crustacea. I: Copepods (1. Calanoida, 2. Cyclopoida) (3rd order).]. <em>In: Dahl, F. (ed.). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der Angrenzenden Meeresteile nach Ihren Merkmalen und nach Ihrer Lebensweise. Fischer, Jena.</em> 9:1-136, figs. 1-115. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sars, G.O. (1902). Copepoda Calanoida, Parts XI & XII, Heterorhabdidae (continued), Arietellidae, Pseudocyclopidae, Candaciidae, Pontellidae. <em>An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum.</em> 4: 121-171 pls. 81-96. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Sars, G.O. (1902). Copepoda Calanoida, Parts IX & X, Temoridae, Metridiidae, Heterorhabdidae. <em>An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum.</em> 4: 97-120, pls. 65-80. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Sazhina, L.I. (1985). Naupliusy massovykh vidov pelagickeskikh kopepod Mirovogo okeana. [Nauplii of mass species pelagic copeopds of the world ocean.]. <em>Naukova Dumka, Kiev.</em> 238 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32. [details]
additional source Wilson, C.B. (1932). The copepods of the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 158:1-635, figs. 1-316, pls. 1-41. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Paulmier, G. (2016). Les Copépodes (Crustacea, Calanoida) des eaux côtières et estuariennes de la Bretagne et de la Normandie. Section des Heterarthrandria. [Copepoda (Crustacea, Calanoida) from coastal and estuaries waters of the Brittany and Normandy, Section Heterarthrandria.]. <em>Bulletin de la Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux.</em> 151, n.ser. 44(2/3):317-335. [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence to Chesapeake Bay [details]Habitat upper epipelagic of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls/OOB/UPMC/CNRS) Note: Including taxonomic identification plates, remarks, geographic distribution, ecological information & reference list
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications) (from synonym Candacia pectinata Brady, 1878)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (42 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Candacia armata)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (11 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records) (from synonym Candacia pectinata Brady, 1878)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications) (from synonym Candacia pectinata Brady, 1878)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (42 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Candacia armata)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (11 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records) (from synonym Candacia pectinata Brady, 1878)
To ITIS
