WoRMS taxon details
Clausocalanus furcatus (Brady, 1883)
104503 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104503)
accepted
Species
Drepanopus furcatus Brady, 1883 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Drepanopus furcatus Brady, 1883) Brady, G.S. (1883). Report on the Copepoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-76, Zoology.</em> 8 (part 23): 1-142, pl. 1-55., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39439478#page/1/mode/1up
page(s): 77 [details]
page(s): 77 [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Clausocalanus furcatus (Brady, 1883). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104503 on 2025-12-02
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Nomenclature
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(of Drepanopus furcatus Brady, 1883) Brady, G.S. (1883). Report on the Copepoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-76, Zoology.</em> 8 (part 23): 1-142, pl. 1-55., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39439478#page/1/mode/1up
page(s): 77 [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): 77 [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 (HKRMS) Lee, C.N.W. (2002). The ecology of planktonic copepods and hyperbenthic communities in the Cape d'Aguilar Marine Reserve, Hong Kong. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. [details]
context source (Bermuda) Sterrer, W. (1986). Marine fauna and flora of Bermuda: a systematic guide to the identification of marine organisms. <em>Wiley-Interscience Publication. Wiley.</em> 742 pp (Nemertini part). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Okemwa, E.N. (1992). A long-term sampling study of copepods across a tropical creek in Mombasa, Kenya. <em>East African Agriculture and Forestry Journal.</em> 57(4):199-215. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Alameda de la Mora, G. (1980). Sistemática y distribución de los copépodos (Crustacea) del Golfo de Tehuantepec (México). [Sistemática y distribución de los copépodos (Crustacea) del Golfo de Tehuantepec (México).]. <em>Tesis Profesional, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónomo de México, Mexico City.</em> 397 pp. + 126 pls. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bi, H.S. (2004). Population dynamics of Clausocalanus furcatus (Copepoda, Calanoida) in the northern Gulf of Mexico. <em>Ph.D. Thesis, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A.</em> 210 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bi, H.S. & M.C. Benfield. (2007). Egg production rates and stage-specific development times of Clausocalanus furcatus (Copepoda, Calanoida) in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Plankton Research 28(12):1199-1216. [For 2006.] [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Brodsky, K.A. (1962). K faune i raspredeleniyu veslonogikh rachkov Calanoida poverkhnostnykh vod severo-zapadnoi chasti Tikhogo okeana. [On the fauna and distribution of the calanoid copepods from the surface waters of the north-western Pacific Ocean.]. <em>Issledovaniya dal'nevost. Morei SSSR.</em> 8:91-166, figs. 1-60. (Russian). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Carli, A. (1963). Casi di anomalia del VE paio di arti natatori di alcuni Crostacei calanoidi. [Cases of anomaly of the VE pair of swimming limbs of some calanoid crustaceans.]. <em>Natura, Milan.</em> 54(3):85-89, figs. 1-14. (ix-1963). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Carli, A. & P. Cristafi. (1969). Le specie del genere Clausocalanus Giesbrecht 1888 (Copepoda: Calanoida) presenti nel Mar Ligure (Nota I). [The species of the genus Clausocalanus Giesbrecht 1888 (Copepoda: Calanoida) present in the Ligurian Sea (Note I).]. <em>Atti della Società Peloritana di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali.</em> 15(3-4):277-320, figs. 1-11, photographs 1-21, tab. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Cornils, A., B. Niehoff, C. Richter, T. Al-Najjar & S.B. Schnack-Schiel. (2007). Seasonal abundance and reproduction of clausocalanid copepods in the northern Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea). Journal of Plankton Research 29(1):57-70. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Cornils, A., S.B. Schnack-Schiel, M. Böer, M. Graeve, U. Struck, T. Al-Najjar & C. Richter. (2007). Feeding of Clausocalanids (Calanoida, Copepoda) on naturally occurring particles in the northern Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea). Marine Biology 151(4):1261-1274. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Frost, B.W. & A. Fleminger. (1968). A revision of the genus Clausocalanus (Copepoda: Calanoida) with remarks on distributional patterns in diagnostic characters. <em>Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Technical Series.</em> 12:1-235, pls. 1-6, charts 1-16. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source González, J.G. & T.E. Bowman. (1965). Planktonic copepods from Bahía Fosforescente, Puerto Rico, and adjacent waters. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 117(3513):241-303. (24-viii-1965) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Li, S.J. & J.C. Fang. (1990). Larval stages of marine planktonic copepods of China. China Ocean Press, Beijing 141 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Mazzocchi, M.G. & G.A. Paffenhöfer. (1998). First observations on the biology of Clausocalanus furcatus (Copepoda, Calanoida). Journal of Plankton Research 20(2):331-342. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Mazzocchi, M.G. & G.A. Paffenhöfer. (1999). Swimming and feeding behaviour of the planktonic copepod Clausocalanus furcatus. Journal of Plankton Research 21(8):1501-1518. [details] Available for editors [request]
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 Scott, T. (1894). Report on Entomostraca from the Gulf of Guinea, collected by John Rattray, B.Sc. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Series 2, Zoology.</em> 6(1):1-161, pls. 1-15., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8598493 [details]
additional source Uttieri, M. (2006). Swimming behaviour and prey capture in the calanoid copepod Clausocalanus furcatus. <em>Ph.D. Thesis, Open University of London, London, U.K. [ sponsoring establishment, Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn' of Naples.</em> 163 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Vervoort, W. (1963). Pelagic Copepoda. Part I. Copepoda Calanoida of the families Calanidae up to and including Euchaetidae. Atlantide Report No.7: Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa 1945-1946. 7:77-194, figs. 1-23. (30-xii-1963) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Uttieri, M., G.A. Paffenhöfer & M.G. Mazzocchi. (2008). Prey capture in Clausocalanus furcatus (Copepoda: Calanoida). The role of swimming behaviour. <em>Marine Biology, Berlin.</em> 153(5):925-935., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-007-0864-0 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Uttieri, M., E.R. Brown, G.A. Boxshall & M.G. Mazzocchi. (2008). Morphology of antennular sensors in Clausocalanus furcatus (Copepoda: Calanoida). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 88(3):535-541. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bucklin, A. & B.W. Frost (2009). Morphological and molecular phylogenetic analysis of evolutionary lineages within Clausocalanus (Copepoda: Calanoida). Journal of Crustacean Biology. 29(1):111-120. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Uttieri, M., L. Sabia, D. Cianelli, J.R. Strickler & E. Zambianchi. (2010). Lagrangian modelling of swimming behaviour and encounter success in co-occurring copepods: Clausocalanus furcatus vs. Oithona plumifera. <em>Journal of Marine Systems.</em> 81(1-2):112-121. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Suárez-Morales, E., J.W. Fleeger & P.A. Montagna. (2009). Free-living Copepoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>In: Felder, D. L. & D.K. Camp [Eds]. Gulf of Mexico: origin, waters, and biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, 1393 pp.</em> Chapter pagination: 841-869. [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 Prusova, I.Y., S.L. Smith & E. Popova. 2012. Calanoid copepods of the Arabian Sea region. Sultan Qaboos University, Academic Publication Board, Muscat, Oman 240 pp., 240 figs. (2011). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bianco, G., V. Botte, L. Dubroca, M.R. d'Alcala & M.G. Mazzocchi. (2013). Unexpected regularity in swimming behavior of Clausocalanus furcatus revealed by a Telecentric 3D computer vision system. <em>PLOS ONE.</em> 8(6):1-11., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067640 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32. [details]
additional source Scott, A. (1909). The Copepoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part I. Free-swimming, littoral and semi-parasitic Copepoda. <em>Siboga Expeditie, Monograph, Leiden.</em> 29:1-323, pls. 1-69., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2191407#page/11/mode/1up
page(s): 32 [details]
additional source Mulyadi. (2004). Calanoid copepods in Indonesian waters. The pelagic calanoid copeods of the families Acartiidae, Aetideidae, Augaptilidae, Calanidae, Calocalnidae, Candaciidea, Centropagidae, Clausocalanidae, Eucalanidae, Euchaetidae, Heterorhabdidae, Pseudodiaptomidae, Scolecithridae, and Tortanidae in Indonesian waters. <em>Research Center for Biology, Indonesia Institute of Sciences, Bogor, Indonesia.</em> 193 pp. Jan 2004. [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (HKRMS) Lee, C.N.W. (2002). The ecology of planktonic copepods and hyperbenthic communities in the Cape d'Aguilar Marine Reserve, Hong Kong. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. [details]
context source (Bermuda) Sterrer, W. (1986). Marine fauna and flora of Bermuda: a systematic guide to the identification of marine organisms. <em>Wiley-Interscience Publication. Wiley.</em> 742 pp (Nemertini part). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Okemwa, E.N. (1992). A long-term sampling study of copepods across a tropical creek in Mombasa, Kenya. <em>East African Agriculture and Forestry Journal.</em> 57(4):199-215. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Alameda de la Mora, G. (1980). Sistemática y distribución de los copépodos (Crustacea) del Golfo de Tehuantepec (México). [Sistemática y distribución de los copépodos (Crustacea) del Golfo de Tehuantepec (México).]. <em>Tesis Profesional, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónomo de México, Mexico City.</em> 397 pp. + 126 pls. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bi, H.S. (2004). Population dynamics of Clausocalanus furcatus (Copepoda, Calanoida) in the northern Gulf of Mexico. <em>Ph.D. Thesis, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A.</em> 210 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bi, H.S. & M.C. Benfield. (2007). Egg production rates and stage-specific development times of Clausocalanus furcatus (Copepoda, Calanoida) in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Plankton Research 28(12):1199-1216. [For 2006.] [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Brodsky, K.A. (1962). K faune i raspredeleniyu veslonogikh rachkov Calanoida poverkhnostnykh vod severo-zapadnoi chasti Tikhogo okeana. [On the fauna and distribution of the calanoid copepods from the surface waters of the north-western Pacific Ocean.]. <em>Issledovaniya dal'nevost. Morei SSSR.</em> 8:91-166, figs. 1-60. (Russian). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Carli, A. (1963). Casi di anomalia del VE paio di arti natatori di alcuni Crostacei calanoidi. [Cases of anomaly of the VE pair of swimming limbs of some calanoid crustaceans.]. <em>Natura, Milan.</em> 54(3):85-89, figs. 1-14. (ix-1963). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Carli, A. & P. Cristafi. (1969). Le specie del genere Clausocalanus Giesbrecht 1888 (Copepoda: Calanoida) presenti nel Mar Ligure (Nota I). [The species of the genus Clausocalanus Giesbrecht 1888 (Copepoda: Calanoida) present in the Ligurian Sea (Note I).]. <em>Atti della Società Peloritana di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali.</em> 15(3-4):277-320, figs. 1-11, photographs 1-21, tab. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Cornils, A., B. Niehoff, C. Richter, T. Al-Najjar & S.B. Schnack-Schiel. (2007). Seasonal abundance and reproduction of clausocalanid copepods in the northern Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea). Journal of Plankton Research 29(1):57-70. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Cornils, A., S.B. Schnack-Schiel, M. Böer, M. Graeve, U. Struck, T. Al-Najjar & C. Richter. (2007). Feeding of Clausocalanids (Calanoida, Copepoda) on naturally occurring particles in the northern Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea). Marine Biology 151(4):1261-1274. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Frost, B.W. & A. Fleminger. (1968). A revision of the genus Clausocalanus (Copepoda: Calanoida) with remarks on distributional patterns in diagnostic characters. <em>Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Technical Series.</em> 12:1-235, pls. 1-6, charts 1-16. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source González, J.G. & T.E. Bowman. (1965). Planktonic copepods from Bahía Fosforescente, Puerto Rico, and adjacent waters. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 117(3513):241-303. (24-viii-1965) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Li, S.J. & J.C. Fang. (1990). Larval stages of marine planktonic copepods of China. China Ocean Press, Beijing 141 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Mazzocchi, M.G. & G.A. Paffenhöfer. (1998). First observations on the biology of Clausocalanus furcatus (Copepoda, Calanoida). Journal of Plankton Research 20(2):331-342. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Mazzocchi, M.G. & G.A. Paffenhöfer. (1999). Swimming and feeding behaviour of the planktonic copepod Clausocalanus furcatus. Journal of Plankton Research 21(8):1501-1518. [details] Available for editors
[request]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 Scott, T. (1894). Report on Entomostraca from the Gulf of Guinea, collected by John Rattray, B.Sc. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Series 2, Zoology.</em> 6(1):1-161, pls. 1-15., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8598493 [details]
additional source Uttieri, M. (2006). Swimming behaviour and prey capture in the calanoid copepod Clausocalanus furcatus. <em>Ph.D. Thesis, Open University of London, London, U.K. [ sponsoring establishment, Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn' of Naples.</em> 163 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Vervoort, W. (1963). Pelagic Copepoda. Part I. Copepoda Calanoida of the families Calanidae up to and including Euchaetidae. Atlantide Report No.7: Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa 1945-1946. 7:77-194, figs. 1-23. (30-xii-1963) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Uttieri, M., G.A. Paffenhöfer & M.G. Mazzocchi. (2008). Prey capture in Clausocalanus furcatus (Copepoda: Calanoida). The role of swimming behaviour. <em>Marine Biology, Berlin.</em> 153(5):925-935., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-007-0864-0 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Uttieri, M., E.R. Brown, G.A. Boxshall & M.G. Mazzocchi. (2008). Morphology of antennular sensors in Clausocalanus furcatus (Copepoda: Calanoida). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 88(3):535-541. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bucklin, A. & B.W. Frost (2009). Morphological and molecular phylogenetic analysis of evolutionary lineages within Clausocalanus (Copepoda: Calanoida). Journal of Crustacean Biology. 29(1):111-120. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Uttieri, M., L. Sabia, D. Cianelli, J.R. Strickler & E. Zambianchi. (2010). Lagrangian modelling of swimming behaviour and encounter success in co-occurring copepods: Clausocalanus furcatus vs. Oithona plumifera. <em>Journal of Marine Systems.</em> 81(1-2):112-121. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Suárez-Morales, E., J.W. Fleeger & P.A. Montagna. (2009). Free-living Copepoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>In: Felder, D. L. & D.K. Camp [Eds]. Gulf of Mexico: origin, waters, and biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, 1393 pp.</em> Chapter pagination: 841-869. [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 Prusova, I.Y., S.L. Smith & E. Popova. 2012. Calanoid copepods of the Arabian Sea region. Sultan Qaboos University, Academic Publication Board, Muscat, Oman 240 pp., 240 figs. (2011). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bianco, G., V. Botte, L. Dubroca, M.R. d'Alcala & M.G. Mazzocchi. (2013). Unexpected regularity in swimming behavior of Clausocalanus furcatus revealed by a Telecentric 3D computer vision system. <em>PLOS ONE.</em> 8(6):1-11., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067640 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32. [details]
additional source Scott, A. (1909). The Copepoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part I. Free-swimming, littoral and semi-parasitic Copepoda. <em>Siboga Expeditie, Monograph, Leiden.</em> 29:1-323, pls. 1-69., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2191407#page/11/mode/1up
page(s): 32 [details]
additional source Mulyadi. (2004). Calanoid copepods in Indonesian waters. The pelagic calanoid copeods of the families Acartiidae, Aetideidae, Augaptilidae, Calanidae, Calocalnidae, Candaciidea, Centropagidae, Clausocalanidae, Eucalanidae, Euchaetidae, Heterorhabdidae, Pseudodiaptomidae, Scolecithridae, and Tortanidae in Indonesian waters. <em>Research Center for Biology, Indonesia Institute of Sciences, Bogor, Indonesia.</em> 193 pp. Jan 2004. [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Habitat Epipelagic [details]
Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls/OOB/UPMC/CNRS) Note: Including taxonomic identification plates, remarks, geographic distribution, ecological information & reference list
To Barcode of Life (29 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Drepanopus furcatus Brady, 1883)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (63 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Clausocalanus furcatus)
To GenBank (72 nucleotides; 43 proteins) (from synonym Drepanopus furcatus Brady, 1883)
To GenBank (72 nucleotides; 43 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (47 records)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (29 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Drepanopus furcatus Brady, 1883)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (63 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Clausocalanus furcatus)
To GenBank (72 nucleotides; 43 proteins) (from synonym Drepanopus furcatus Brady, 1883)
To GenBank (72 nucleotides; 43 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (47 records)
To ITIS
