WoRMS taxon details
Labidocera aestiva Wheeler, 1900
104728 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104728)
accepted
Species
Labidocera insolita Wilson C.B., 1950 · unaccepted (synonym according to Fleminger, 1965)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Wheeler, W.M. (1900). The free-swimming copepods of the Woods Hole region. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 1899 Document 459:157-192. (30-viii-1900 published as extract) and included in the Bulletin in 1901 19:157-192. [details] 
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence to Long Island Sound
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence to Long Island Sound [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Labidocera aestiva Wheeler, 1900. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104728 on 2025-06-26
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Nomenclature
original description
Wheeler, W.M. (1900). The free-swimming copepods of the Woods Hole region. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 1899 Document 459:157-192. (30-viii-1900 published as extract) and included in the Bulletin in 1901 19:157-192. [details] 
original description (of Labidocera insolita Wilson C.B., 1950) Wilson, C.B. (1950). Copepods gathered by the United States Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross' from 1887 to 1909, chiefly in the Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 100(14)(4):i-ix, 141-461, pls. 2-36. [details] Available for editors
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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]
original description (of Labidocera insolita Wilson C.B., 1950) Wilson, C.B. (1950). Copepods gathered by the United States Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross' from 1887 to 1909, chiefly in the Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 100(14)(4):i-ix, 141-461, pls. 2-36. [details] Available for editors

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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Other
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 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 Bundy, M.H. & G.A. Paffenhöfer. (1993). Innervation of copepod antennules investigated using laser scanning confocal microscopy. Marine Ecology Progress Series 102(1-2):1-14. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Alvarez-Silva, C. & S. Gómez-Aguirre. (1994). Labidocera aestiva and L. scotti in Tamiahua Lagoon, Veracruz, Mexico. In: Ferrari, F.D. & B.P. Bradley (eds.). Ecology and Morphology of Copepods. Developments in Hydrobiology 102, Hydrobiologia 292/293:265-269, fig.1, tab.1-2. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Blades, P.I. & M.J. Youngbluth. (1979). Mating behavior of Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda: Calanoida). Marine Biology, Berlin 5l(4):339-355, figs. l-16. (12-iv-1979) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Blades, P.I. & M.J. Youngbluth. (1981). Ultrastructure of the male reproductive system and spermatophore formation in Labidocera aestiva (Crust.: Copepoda). Zoomorphology 99:1-21, figs. 1-35, tab. 1. (xii-1981). [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Blades-Eckelbarger, P.I. & M.J. Youngbluth. (1982). The ultrastructure of spermatogenesis in Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda: Calanoida). Journal of Morphology 174(1):1-15, figs. 1-29. (x-1982) [details] Available for editors
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additional source Blades-Eckelbarger, P.I. & M.J. Youngbluth. (1984). The ultrastructure of oogenesis and yolk formation in Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda: Calanoida). Journal of Morphology 179(1):33-46, figs. 1-25. (i-1984) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Bucklin, A. & N.H. Marcus. (1981). Biochemical genetic differentiation of geographically separated populations of Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda, Calanoida). In: Vaupel Klein, J.C. von (ed.). First International Conference on Copepoda, Amsterdam, 24-28 August 1981. Collected Abstracts. [shelved as Vaupel Klein, 1981] :5. (Abstract.) [details]
additional source Bucklin, A. & N.H. Marcus. (1985). Genetic differentiation of populations of the planktonic copepod Labidocera aestiva. Marine Biology, Berlin 84(3):219-224, fig. 1, tabs. 1-4. (i-1985) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Carvalho, J. de Paiva. (1945). Copépodes de Caiobá e Baía de Guaratba. [Copepods from Caiobá and Guaratuba Bay.]. <em>Arquivos do Museu Paranaense, Paraná.</em> 4(3):83-116, figs. 1-29. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Conley, W.J. & J.T. Turner. (1985). Omnivory by the coastal marine copepods Centropages hamatus and Labidocera aestiva. Marine Ecology Progress Series 21(1-2):113-120, figs. 1-5, tabs. 1-5. (10-i-1985) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Faber, D.J. (1966). Free-swimming copepod nauplii of Narragansett Bay with a key to their identification. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 23(2):189-205, figs. 1-36, tab. 1. (ii-1966) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Gibson, V.R. & G.D. Grice. (1977). The developmental stages of Labidocera aestiva Wheeler, 1900 (Copepoda, Calanoida). Crustaceana, Leiden 32(1):7-20, figs. 1-114. (29-iii-1977) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Grice, G.D. & T.J. Lawson. (1976). Resting eggs in the marine calanoid copepod Labidocera aestiva Wheeler. Crustaceana, Leiden 30(1):9-12, pl. 1. (16-ii-1976) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Grice, G.D. & V.R. Gibson. (1975). Occurrence, viability and significance of resting eggs of the calanoid copepod Labidocera aestiva. Marine Biology, Berlin 31(4):335-337, tabs. 1-2. (29-viii-1975) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Marcus, N.H. & C.M. Fuller. (1986). Subitaneous and diapause eggs of Labidocera aestiva Wheeler (Copepoda: Calanoida): differences in fall velocity and density. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 99(3):247-256, fig. 1, tabs. 1-3. (viii.1986) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Marcus, N.H. & C.M. Fuller. (1989). Distribution and abundance of eggs of Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda: Calanoida) in the bottom sediments of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Marine Biology, Berlin 110(3):319-326, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-3. (ii.1989) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Marcus, N.H. (1979). On the population biology and nature of diapause of Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda: Calanoida). Biological Bulletin, Woods Hole 157(2):297-305, figs. 1-2, tab. 1. (x-1979) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Marcus, N.H. (1980). Photoperiodic control of diapause in the marine calanoid copepod Labidocera aestiva. Biological Bulletin, Woods Hole 159(2):311-3l8, fig. 1, tabs. 1-2. (x-1980) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Marcus, N.H. (1982). The reversibility of subitaneous and diapause egg production by the individual females of Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda: Calanoida). Biological Bulletin, Woods Hole 162(1):39-44, fig. 1, tab. 1. (ii-1982) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Marcus, N.H. (1982). Photoperiodic and temperature regulation of diapause in Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda: Calanoida). Biological Bulletin, Woods Hole 162(1):45-52, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-2. (ii-1982) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Marcus, N.H. (1984). Variation in the diapause response of Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda: Calanoida) from different latitudes and its importance in the evolutionary process. Biological Bulletin, Woods Hole 166(1):127-139, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-3. (ii-1984) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Marcus, N.H. (1987). Differences in the duration of egg diapause of Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda: Calanoida) from the Woods Hole, Massachusetts, region. Biological Bulletin, Woods Hole 173(1):169-177, figs. 1-3, tabs. 1-2. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Van Waveren, I. & N.H. Marcus. (1993). Morphology of recent copepod egg envelopes from Turkey Point, Gulf of Mexico, and their implications for acritarch affinity. Special Papers in Paleontology 48:111-124. [details] Available for editors
[request]
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 Turner, J.T. (1978). Scanning electron microscope investigations of feeding habits and mouthpart structure of three species of copeopds of the family Pontellidae. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 28(3):487-500. [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 Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [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

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

additional source Bundy, M.H. & G.A. Paffenhöfer. (1993). Innervation of copepod antennules investigated using laser scanning confocal microscopy. Marine Ecology Progress Series 102(1-2):1-14. [details] Available for editors

additional source Alvarez-Silva, C. & S. Gómez-Aguirre. (1994). Labidocera aestiva and L. scotti in Tamiahua Lagoon, Veracruz, Mexico. In: Ferrari, F.D. & B.P. Bradley (eds.). Ecology and Morphology of Copepods. Developments in Hydrobiology 102, Hydrobiologia 292/293:265-269, fig.1, tab.1-2. [details] Available for editors

additional source Blades, P.I. & M.J. Youngbluth. (1979). Mating behavior of Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda: Calanoida). Marine Biology, Berlin 5l(4):339-355, figs. l-16. (12-iv-1979) [details] Available for editors

additional source Blades, P.I. & M.J. Youngbluth. (1981). Ultrastructure of the male reproductive system and spermatophore formation in Labidocera aestiva (Crust.: Copepoda). Zoomorphology 99:1-21, figs. 1-35, tab. 1. (xii-1981). [details] Available for editors

additional source Blades-Eckelbarger, P.I. & M.J. Youngbluth. (1982). The ultrastructure of spermatogenesis in Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda: Calanoida). Journal of Morphology 174(1):1-15, figs. 1-29. (x-1982) [details] Available for editors

additional source Blades-Eckelbarger, P.I. & M.J. Youngbluth. (1984). The ultrastructure of oogenesis and yolk formation in Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda: Calanoida). Journal of Morphology 179(1):33-46, figs. 1-25. (i-1984) [details] Available for editors

additional source Bucklin, A. & N.H. Marcus. (1981). Biochemical genetic differentiation of geographically separated populations of Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda, Calanoida). In: Vaupel Klein, J.C. von (ed.). First International Conference on Copepoda, Amsterdam, 24-28 August 1981. Collected Abstracts. [shelved as Vaupel Klein, 1981] :5. (Abstract.) [details]
additional source Bucklin, A. & N.H. Marcus. (1985). Genetic differentiation of populations of the planktonic copepod Labidocera aestiva. Marine Biology, Berlin 84(3):219-224, fig. 1, tabs. 1-4. (i-1985) [details] Available for editors

additional source Carvalho, J. de Paiva. (1945). Copépodes de Caiobá e Baía de Guaratba. [Copepods from Caiobá and Guaratuba Bay.]. <em>Arquivos do Museu Paranaense, Paraná.</em> 4(3):83-116, figs. 1-29. [details] Available for editors

additional source Conley, W.J. & J.T. Turner. (1985). Omnivory by the coastal marine copepods Centropages hamatus and Labidocera aestiva. Marine Ecology Progress Series 21(1-2):113-120, figs. 1-5, tabs. 1-5. (10-i-1985) [details] Available for editors

additional source Faber, D.J. (1966). Free-swimming copepod nauplii of Narragansett Bay with a key to their identification. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 23(2):189-205, figs. 1-36, tab. 1. (ii-1966) [details] Available for editors

additional source Gibson, V.R. & G.D. Grice. (1977). The developmental stages of Labidocera aestiva Wheeler, 1900 (Copepoda, Calanoida). Crustaceana, Leiden 32(1):7-20, figs. 1-114. (29-iii-1977) [details] Available for editors

additional source Grice, G.D. & T.J. Lawson. (1976). Resting eggs in the marine calanoid copepod Labidocera aestiva Wheeler. Crustaceana, Leiden 30(1):9-12, pl. 1. (16-ii-1976) [details] Available for editors

additional source Grice, G.D. & V.R. Gibson. (1975). Occurrence, viability and significance of resting eggs of the calanoid copepod Labidocera aestiva. Marine Biology, Berlin 31(4):335-337, tabs. 1-2. (29-viii-1975) [details] Available for editors

additional source Marcus, N.H. & C.M. Fuller. (1986). Subitaneous and diapause eggs of Labidocera aestiva Wheeler (Copepoda: Calanoida): differences in fall velocity and density. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 99(3):247-256, fig. 1, tabs. 1-3. (viii.1986) [details] Available for editors

additional source Marcus, N.H. & C.M. Fuller. (1989). Distribution and abundance of eggs of Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda: Calanoida) in the bottom sediments of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Marine Biology, Berlin 110(3):319-326, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-3. (ii.1989) [details] Available for editors

additional source Marcus, N.H. (1979). On the population biology and nature of diapause of Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda: Calanoida). Biological Bulletin, Woods Hole 157(2):297-305, figs. 1-2, tab. 1. (x-1979) [details] Available for editors

additional source Marcus, N.H. (1980). Photoperiodic control of diapause in the marine calanoid copepod Labidocera aestiva. Biological Bulletin, Woods Hole 159(2):311-3l8, fig. 1, tabs. 1-2. (x-1980) [details] Available for editors

additional source Marcus, N.H. (1982). The reversibility of subitaneous and diapause egg production by the individual females of Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda: Calanoida). Biological Bulletin, Woods Hole 162(1):39-44, fig. 1, tab. 1. (ii-1982) [details] Available for editors

additional source Marcus, N.H. (1982). Photoperiodic and temperature regulation of diapause in Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda: Calanoida). Biological Bulletin, Woods Hole 162(1):45-52, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-2. (ii-1982) [details] Available for editors

additional source Marcus, N.H. (1984). Variation in the diapause response of Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda: Calanoida) from different latitudes and its importance in the evolutionary process. Biological Bulletin, Woods Hole 166(1):127-139, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-3. (ii-1984) [details] Available for editors

additional source Marcus, N.H. (1987). Differences in the duration of egg diapause of Labidocera aestiva (Copepoda: Calanoida) from the Woods Hole, Massachusetts, region. Biological Bulletin, Woods Hole 173(1):169-177, figs. 1-3, tabs. 1-2. [details] Available for editors

additional source Van Waveren, I. & N.H. Marcus. (1993). Morphology of recent copepod egg envelopes from Turkey Point, Gulf of Mexico, and their implications for acritarch affinity. Special Papers in Paleontology 48:111-124. [details] Available for editors

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

additional source Turner, J.T. (1978). Scanning electron microscope investigations of feeding habits and mouthpart structure of three species of copeopds of the family Pontellidae. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 28(3):487-500. [details] Available for editors

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

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]





Unreviewed
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence to Long Island Sound [details]Habitat upper and glacial epipelagic regions 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 (33 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Labidocera aestiva)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Labidocera insolita Wilson C.B., 1950)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (72 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 073617)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Labidocera aestiva)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Labidocera insolita Wilson C.B., 1950)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (72 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 073617)
To ITIS