WoRMS taxon details
Scottocalanus securifrons (Scott T., 1894)
104833 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104833)
accepted
Species
Lophothrix securifrons (Scott T., 1894) · unaccepted
Scolecithrix cuneifrons Willey, 1918 · unaccepted
Scolecithrix securifrons Scott T., 1894 · unaccepted
Scottocalanus acutus Sars G.O., 1905 · unaccepted
Scottocalanus cuneifrons Willey, 1918 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Scolecithrix securifrons Scott T., 1894) 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] 
Distribution Greenland to Antarctic, also Pacific & Indian Ocean; "off Nova Scotia"
Distribution Greenland to Antarctic, also Pacific & Indian Ocean; "off Nova Scotia" [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Scottocalanus securifrons (Scott T., 1894). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104833 on 2025-08-22
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Scolecithrix securifrons Scott T., 1894) 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]
original description (of Scottocalanus acutus Sars G.O., 1905) Sars, G.O. (1905). Liste préliminaire des Calanoides recueillis pendant les campagnes de S.A.S. le Prince Albert de Monaco, avec diagnoses des genres et des espéces nouvelles. (2 e partie). [Preliminary list of Calanoides collected during the campaigns of H.S.H. Prince Albert of Monaco, with diagnoses of the new genera and species. (Part 2).]. <em>Bulletin du Musée Océanographique de Monaco.</em> 40:1-24. [details]
original description (of Scolecithrix cuneifrons Willey, 1918) Willey, A. (1918). Report on the Copepoda obtained in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and adjacent waters, 1915. <em>Canadian Fisheries Expedition, 1914-1915 Atlantic Waters of Canada, Ottawa, J. De Labroqueirie Taché.</em> :173-220, figs. 1-28. [details]
original description (of Scottocalanus cuneifrons Willey, 1918) Willey, A. (1918). Report on the Copepoda obtained in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and adjacent waters, 1915. <em>Canadian Fisheries Expedition, 1914-1915 Atlantic Waters of Canada, Ottawa, J. De Labroqueirie Taché.</em> :173-220, figs. 1-28. [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]
original description (of Scottocalanus acutus Sars G.O., 1905) Sars, G.O. (1905). Liste préliminaire des Calanoides recueillis pendant les campagnes de S.A.S. le Prince Albert de Monaco, avec diagnoses des genres et des espéces nouvelles. (2 e partie). [Preliminary list of Calanoides collected during the campaigns of H.S.H. Prince Albert of Monaco, with diagnoses of the new genera and species. (Part 2).]. <em>Bulletin du Musée Océanographique de Monaco.</em> 40:1-24. [details]
original description (of Scolecithrix cuneifrons Willey, 1918) Willey, A. (1918). Report on the Copepoda obtained in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and adjacent waters, 1915. <em>Canadian Fisheries Expedition, 1914-1915 Atlantic Waters of Canada, Ottawa, J. De Labroqueirie Taché.</em> :173-220, figs. 1-28. [details]
original description (of Scottocalanus cuneifrons Willey, 1918) Willey, A. (1918). Report on the Copepoda obtained in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and adjacent waters, 1915. <em>Canadian Fisheries Expedition, 1914-1915 Atlantic Waters of Canada, Ottawa, J. De Labroqueirie Taché.</em> :173-220, figs. 1-28. [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 (Bermuda) Wilson, C. B. (1936). Plankton of the Bermuda Oceanographic Expeditions IV. Notes on Copepoda . Zoologica Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society , New York, 21(7): 89-93 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Gopalakrishnan, T.C. (1974). A review of the copepod Scottocalanus securifrons (T. Scott) and a note on its synonym Scolecithrix cuneifrons Willey (Calanoida: Scolecithricidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 87(26):273-282, figs. 1-3. (22-x-1974) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Mulyadi. (1998). Calanoid copepods of the genus Scottocalanus from the Flores Sea, Indonesia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Singapore 46(2):381-398. (30.xii.1998) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Nishida, S. & S. Ohtsuka. (1997). Ultrastructure of the mouthpart sensory setae in mesopelagic copepods of the family Scolecitrichidae. <em>Plankton Biology and Ecology.</em> 44(1/2):81-90. (viii.1997). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Vervoort, W. (1965). Pelagic Copepoda. Part II. Copepoda Calanoida of the families Phaennidae up to and including Acartiidae, containing the description of a new species of Aetideidae. Atlantide Report, Danish Expedition to Coasts of Tropical West Africa 1945-1946 8:9-216. [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 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 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 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): 104 [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 (Bermuda) Wilson, C. B. (1936). Plankton of the Bermuda Oceanographic Expeditions IV. Notes on Copepoda . Zoologica Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society , New York, 21(7): 89-93 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Gopalakrishnan, T.C. (1974). A review of the copepod Scottocalanus securifrons (T. Scott) and a note on its synonym Scolecithrix cuneifrons Willey (Calanoida: Scolecithricidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 87(26):273-282, figs. 1-3. (22-x-1974) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Mulyadi. (1998). Calanoid copepods of the genus Scottocalanus from the Flores Sea, Indonesia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Singapore 46(2):381-398. (30.xii.1998) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Nishida, S. & S. Ohtsuka. (1997). Ultrastructure of the mouthpart sensory setae in mesopelagic copepods of the family Scolecitrichidae. <em>Plankton Biology and Ecology.</em> 44(1/2):81-90. (viii.1997). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Vervoort, W. (1965). Pelagic Copepoda. Part II. Copepoda Calanoida of the families Phaennidae up to and including Acartiidae, containing the description of a new species of Aetideidae. Atlantide Report, Danish Expedition to Coasts of Tropical West Africa 1945-1946 8:9-216. [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 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 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 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): 104 [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
Distribution Greenland to Antarctic, also Pacific & Indian Ocean; "off Nova Scotia" [details]
Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls/OOB/UPMC/CNRS) Note: Including taxonomic identification plates, remarks, geographic distribution, ecological information & reference list
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Lophothrix securifrons (Scott T., 1894))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Scottocalanus securifrons)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (23 records)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Lophothrix securifrons (Scott T., 1894))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Scottocalanus securifrons)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (23 records)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
