WoRMS taxon details
Neocalanus flemingeri Miller, 1988
353708 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:353708)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Miller, C.B. (1988). Neocalanus flemingeri, a new species of Calanidae (Copepoda: Calanoida) from the subarctic Pacific Ocean, with a comparative redecription of Neocalanus plumchrus (Marukawa) 1921. Progress in Oceanography 20(4):233-273, figs.1-25. [details] Available for editors
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Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Neocalanus flemingeri Miller, 1988. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=353708 on 2025-10-13
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Nomenclature
original description
Miller, C.B. (1988). Neocalanus flemingeri, a new species of Calanidae (Copepoda: Calanoida) from the subarctic Pacific Ocean, with a comparative redecription of Neocalanus plumchrus (Marukawa) 1921. Progress in Oceanography 20(4):233-273, figs.1-25. [details] Available for editors
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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 Roncalli, V., M.C. Cieslak, A.M. Castelfranco, R.R. Hopcroft, D.K. Hartline & P.H. Lenz. (2021). Post-diapause transcriptomic restarts: insight from a high-latitude copepod. <em>BMC Genomics.</em> 22:1-18., available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-021-07868-9 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Tsuda, A., H. Saito & H. Kasai. (2001). Geographical Variation of Body Size of Neocalanus cristatus, N. plumchrus and N. flemingeri in the Subarctic Pacific and Its Marginal Seas: Implications for the Origin of Large Form of N. flemingeri in the Oyashio Area. <em>Journal of Oceanography.</em> 57(3):341-352. [details] Available for editors
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additional source Roncalli, V., M.C. Cieslak, A.M. Castelfranco, D.K. Hartline & P.H. Lenz. (2022). Postponing development: dormancy in the earliest developmental stages of a high-latitude calanoid copepod. <em>Journal Of Plankton Research.</em> 44(5):1-13. Jul 2022., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbac039 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Saito, H. & Y. Kotani. (2000). Lipids of four boreal species of calanoid copepods: origin of monoene fats of marine animals at higher trophic levels in the grazing food chain in the subarctic ocean ecosystem. <em>Marine Chemistry.</em> 71(1-2):69-82., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-4203(00)00041-4 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Hartline, D.K., M.C. Cieslak, A.M. Castelfranco, B. Lieberman, V. Roncalli & P.H. Lenz. (2023). De novo transcriptomes of six calanoid copepods (Crustacea): a resource for the discovery of novel genes. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1):1-14. APR 2023., available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02130-1 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Sullaway, G.H., C. Cunningham, D.G. Kimmel, J.M. Nielsen, D. Pilcher, A.I. Pinchuk & P.J. Stabeno. (2025). Impacts of climate change on Bering Sea copepod phenology and reproductive strategy. <em>Marine Ecology Progress Series.</em> 755:45-61. Feb 2025., available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14796 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Roncalli, V., M.C. Cieslak, A.M. Castelfranco, R.R. Hopcroft, D.K. Hartline & P.H. Lenz. (2021). Correction to: Post-diapause transcriptomic restarts: insight from a high-latitude copepod. <em>BMC Genomics.</em> 22:1-5. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Miller, C.B. & M. Terazaki. (1989). The life histories of Neocalanus flemingeri and Neocalanus plumchrus in the Sea of Japan. Bulletin of Plankton Society of Japan 36(1):27-41. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Miller, C.B. & R.D. Nielsen. (1988). Development and growth of large, calanid copepods in the ocean subarctic Pacific, May 1984. Progress in Oceanography 20:275-292, figs.1-6. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Miller, C.B., J. Fulton & B.W. Frost. (1992). Size variation of Neocalanus plumchrus and Neocalanus flemingeri in a 20-yr sample series from the Gulf of Alaska. <em>Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 49(2):389-399. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Saito, H. & A. Tsuda. (2000). Egg production and early development of the subarctic copepods Neocalanus cristatus, N. plumchrus and N. flemingeri. Deep-sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers 47(11):2141-2158. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Shebanova, M.A. (2003). Raspredeleniye i vozrastnaya struktura Neocalanus plumchrus i N. flemingeri v vesenne-letniy period v Okhotskom more. [Distribution and age structure of Neocalanus plumchrus and N. flemingeri in the spring-summer period in the Sea of Okhotsk.]. <em>Izvestiya Tikhookeanskogo Nauchno-issledovatel'skogo Rybokhozyaistvennogo Tsentra (TINRO).</em> 135:178-189. [In Russian.]. [details]
additional source Tsuda, A., H. Saito & H. Kasai. (1999). Life histories of Neocalanus flemingeri and Neocalanus plumchrus (Calanoida: Copepoda) in the western subarctic Pacific. Marine Biology, Berlin 135(3):533-544. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Tsuda, A., H. Saito & J. Kasai. (2001). Life history strategies of subarctic copepods Neocalanus flemingeri and N. plumchrus, especially concerning lipid accumulation patterns. <em>Plankton Biology and Ecology.</em> 48(1):52-58. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Slater, L.M. (2004). Development, growth, and egg production of Centropages abdominalis and Neocalanus flemingeri in the eastern subarctic Pacific. <em>M.Sc. Thesis, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A.</em> 62 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Bucklin, A., M. Guarnieri, R.S. Hill, A.M. Bentley & S. Kaartvedt. (1999). Taxonomic and systematic assessment of planktonic copepods using mitochondrial COI sequence variation and competitive, species-specific PCR. <em>Hydrobiologia, The Hague.</em> 401:239-254. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Dagg, M.J., H. Liu & A.C. Thomas. (2006). Effects of mesoscale phytoplankton variability on the copepods Neocalanus flemingeri and N. plumchrus in the coastal Gulf of Alaska. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 53(2):321-332. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Heinrich, A.K. (2005). Features of the distribution and development of the common copepods Neocalanus flemingeri and Neocalanus plumchrus in the northwestern part of the Bering Sea. <em>Oceanology, Okeanologiya.</em> 45(3):391-398. English; [Russian 45(3):417-424.]. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Heinrich, A.K. (1998). On the biology of common copepods Neocalanus plumchrus and N. flemingeri in the Bering Sea. <em>Oceanology, Okeanologiya.</em> 38(6):891-894. (xi-xii.1998; Russian.) [English :805-808]. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Heinrich, A.K. (1998). Copepods Neocalanus plumchrus and N. flemingeri in winter plankton in the Bering Sea. <em>Oceanology, Okeanologiya.</em> 38(3):397-400. (v-vi.1998; Russian.) [Engliush 356-359]. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Heinrich, A.K. (2000). Species characters of copepodite stages in Neocalanus flemingeri and N. plumchrus (Copepoda, Calanoida, Calanidae). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 79(9):1020-1026. (Russian) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Heinrich, A.K. (2002). Life histories of the common copepods Neocalanus flemingeri and Neocalanus plumchrus in the West Bering Sea. <em>Oceanology, Okeanologiia.</em> 42(1):77-82. (Englislh), 42(1): 85-90. (Russian). [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Heinrich, A.K. (2003). Struktura populyatsii i vertikal'noye raspredeleniye dvukh rasprostranennykh vidov veslonogikh rachkov v tsentral'noy chasti Yaponskogo morya. [Population structure and vertical distribution of two common copepod species in central part of the Sea of Japan.]. <em>Zoologicheskii Zhurnal.</em> 82(3): 332-337. (Russian). [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Kawamura, A. (2005). [The big unvarvished truth of copeopds considered as food for baleen wahels - 'swarms' of Neocalanus.]. <em>In: Nagasawa, K. (ed.). Introduction to Copepodology - World of tiny giants in water., Tokai University Press, Tokyo, 326pp.</em> :110-128. (In Japanese). [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Liu, H. & R.R. Hopcroft. (2006). Growth and development of Neocalanus flemingeri / plumchrus in the northern Gulf of Alaska: validation of the artificial cohort method in cold waters. <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 28(1):87-101. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Kobari, T. & T. Ikeda. (2001). Life cycle of Neocalanus flemingeri (Crustacea: Copepoda) in the Oyashio region, western subarctic Pacific, with notes on its regional variations. Marine Ecology Progress Series 209: 243-255. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Kobari, T., K. Tadokoro, A. Shiomoto & S. Hashimoto. (2003). Geographical variations in prosome length and body weight of Neocalanus copepods in the North Pacific. Journal of Oceanography 59(1):3-10. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Kobari, T., T. Ikeda, Y. Kanno, N. Shiga, S. Takagi & T. Azumaya. (2003). Interannual variations in abundance and body size in Neocalanus copepods in the central North Pacific. <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 25(5):483-494. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Roncalli, V., M.C. Cieslak, A.M. Castelfranco, R.R. Hopcroft, D.K. Hartline & P.H. Lenz. (2021). Post-diapause transcriptomic restarts: insight from a high-latitude copepod. <em>BMC Genomics.</em> 22:1-18., available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-021-07868-9 [details] Available for editors

additional source Tsuda, A., H. Saito & H. Kasai. (2001). Geographical Variation of Body Size of Neocalanus cristatus, N. plumchrus and N. flemingeri in the Subarctic Pacific and Its Marginal Seas: Implications for the Origin of Large Form of N. flemingeri in the Oyashio Area. <em>Journal of Oceanography.</em> 57(3):341-352. [details] Available for editors

additional source Roncalli, V., M.C. Cieslak, A.M. Castelfranco, D.K. Hartline & P.H. Lenz. (2022). Postponing development: dormancy in the earliest developmental stages of a high-latitude calanoid copepod. <em>Journal Of Plankton Research.</em> 44(5):1-13. Jul 2022., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbac039 [details] Available for editors

additional source Saito, H. & Y. Kotani. (2000). Lipids of four boreal species of calanoid copepods: origin of monoene fats of marine animals at higher trophic levels in the grazing food chain in the subarctic ocean ecosystem. <em>Marine Chemistry.</em> 71(1-2):69-82., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-4203(00)00041-4 [details] Available for editors

additional source Hartline, D.K., M.C. Cieslak, A.M. Castelfranco, B. Lieberman, V. Roncalli & P.H. Lenz. (2023). De novo transcriptomes of six calanoid copepods (Crustacea): a resource for the discovery of novel genes. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1):1-14. APR 2023., available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02130-1 [details] Available for editors

additional source Sullaway, G.H., C. Cunningham, D.G. Kimmel, J.M. Nielsen, D. Pilcher, A.I. Pinchuk & P.J. Stabeno. (2025). Impacts of climate change on Bering Sea copepod phenology and reproductive strategy. <em>Marine Ecology Progress Series.</em> 755:45-61. Feb 2025., available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14796 [details] Available for editors

additional source Roncalli, V., M.C. Cieslak, A.M. Castelfranco, R.R. Hopcroft, D.K. Hartline & P.H. Lenz. (2021). Correction to: Post-diapause transcriptomic restarts: insight from a high-latitude copepod. <em>BMC Genomics.</em> 22:1-5. [details] Available for editors

additional source Miller, C.B. & M. Terazaki. (1989). The life histories of Neocalanus flemingeri and Neocalanus plumchrus in the Sea of Japan. Bulletin of Plankton Society of Japan 36(1):27-41. [details] Available for editors

additional source Miller, C.B. & R.D. Nielsen. (1988). Development and growth of large, calanid copepods in the ocean subarctic Pacific, May 1984. Progress in Oceanography 20:275-292, figs.1-6. [details] Available for editors

additional source Miller, C.B., J. Fulton & B.W. Frost. (1992). Size variation of Neocalanus plumchrus and Neocalanus flemingeri in a 20-yr sample series from the Gulf of Alaska. <em>Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 49(2):389-399. [details] Available for editors

additional source Saito, H. & A. Tsuda. (2000). Egg production and early development of the subarctic copepods Neocalanus cristatus, N. plumchrus and N. flemingeri. Deep-sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers 47(11):2141-2158. [details] Available for editors

additional source Shebanova, M.A. (2003). Raspredeleniye i vozrastnaya struktura Neocalanus plumchrus i N. flemingeri v vesenne-letniy period v Okhotskom more. [Distribution and age structure of Neocalanus plumchrus and N. flemingeri in the spring-summer period in the Sea of Okhotsk.]. <em>Izvestiya Tikhookeanskogo Nauchno-issledovatel'skogo Rybokhozyaistvennogo Tsentra (TINRO).</em> 135:178-189. [In Russian.]. [details]
additional source Tsuda, A., H. Saito & H. Kasai. (1999). Life histories of Neocalanus flemingeri and Neocalanus plumchrus (Calanoida: Copepoda) in the western subarctic Pacific. Marine Biology, Berlin 135(3):533-544. [details] Available for editors

additional source Tsuda, A., H. Saito & J. Kasai. (2001). Life history strategies of subarctic copepods Neocalanus flemingeri and N. plumchrus, especially concerning lipid accumulation patterns. <em>Plankton Biology and Ecology.</em> 48(1):52-58. [details] Available for editors

additional source Slater, L.M. (2004). Development, growth, and egg production of Centropages abdominalis and Neocalanus flemingeri in the eastern subarctic Pacific. <em>M.Sc. Thesis, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A.</em> 62 pp. [details] Available for editors

additional source Bucklin, A., M. Guarnieri, R.S. Hill, A.M. Bentley & S. Kaartvedt. (1999). Taxonomic and systematic assessment of planktonic copepods using mitochondrial COI sequence variation and competitive, species-specific PCR. <em>Hydrobiologia, The Hague.</em> 401:239-254. [details] Available for editors

additional source Dagg, M.J., H. Liu & A.C. Thomas. (2006). Effects of mesoscale phytoplankton variability on the copepods Neocalanus flemingeri and N. plumchrus in the coastal Gulf of Alaska. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 53(2):321-332. [details] Available for editors

additional source Heinrich, A.K. (2005). Features of the distribution and development of the common copepods Neocalanus flemingeri and Neocalanus plumchrus in the northwestern part of the Bering Sea. <em>Oceanology, Okeanologiya.</em> 45(3):391-398. English; [Russian 45(3):417-424.]. [details] Available for editors

additional source Heinrich, A.K. (1998). On the biology of common copepods Neocalanus plumchrus and N. flemingeri in the Bering Sea. <em>Oceanology, Okeanologiya.</em> 38(6):891-894. (xi-xii.1998; Russian.) [English :805-808]. [details] Available for editors

additional source Heinrich, A.K. (1998). Copepods Neocalanus plumchrus and N. flemingeri in winter plankton in the Bering Sea. <em>Oceanology, Okeanologiya.</em> 38(3):397-400. (v-vi.1998; Russian.) [Engliush 356-359]. [details] Available for editors

additional source Heinrich, A.K. (2000). Species characters of copepodite stages in Neocalanus flemingeri and N. plumchrus (Copepoda, Calanoida, Calanidae). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 79(9):1020-1026. (Russian) [details] Available for editors

additional source Heinrich, A.K. (2002). Life histories of the common copepods Neocalanus flemingeri and Neocalanus plumchrus in the West Bering Sea. <em>Oceanology, Okeanologiia.</em> 42(1):77-82. (Englislh), 42(1): 85-90. (Russian). [details] Available for editors

additional source Heinrich, A.K. (2003). Struktura populyatsii i vertikal'noye raspredeleniye dvukh rasprostranennykh vidov veslonogikh rachkov v tsentral'noy chasti Yaponskogo morya. [Population structure and vertical distribution of two common copepod species in central part of the Sea of Japan.]. <em>Zoologicheskii Zhurnal.</em> 82(3): 332-337. (Russian). [details] Available for editors

additional source Kawamura, A. (2005). [The big unvarvished truth of copeopds considered as food for baleen wahels - 'swarms' of Neocalanus.]. <em>In: Nagasawa, K. (ed.). Introduction to Copepodology - World of tiny giants in water., Tokai University Press, Tokyo, 326pp.</em> :110-128. (In Japanese). [details] Available for editors

additional source Liu, H. & R.R. Hopcroft. (2006). Growth and development of Neocalanus flemingeri / plumchrus in the northern Gulf of Alaska: validation of the artificial cohort method in cold waters. <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 28(1):87-101. [details] Available for editors

additional source Kobari, T. & T. Ikeda. (2001). Life cycle of Neocalanus flemingeri (Crustacea: Copepoda) in the Oyashio region, western subarctic Pacific, with notes on its regional variations. Marine Ecology Progress Series 209: 243-255. [details] Available for editors

additional source Kobari, T., K. Tadokoro, A. Shiomoto & S. Hashimoto. (2003). Geographical variations in prosome length and body weight of Neocalanus copepods in the North Pacific. Journal of Oceanography 59(1):3-10. [details] Available for editors

additional source Kobari, T., T. Ikeda, Y. Kanno, N. Shiga, S. Takagi & T. Azumaya. (2003). Interannual variations in abundance and body size in Neocalanus copepods in the central North Pacific. <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 25(5):483-494. [details] Available for editors






Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls/OOB/UPMC/CNRS) Note: Including taxonomic identification plates, remarks, geographic distribution, ecological information & reference list
To Barcode of Life (62 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Neocalanus flemingeri)
To GenBank (224 nucleotides; 153 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (5 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 235200)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (62 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Neocalanus flemingeri)
To GenBank (224 nucleotides; 153 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (5 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 235200)
To ITIS