WoRMS name details
Rhincalanus cornutus (Dana, 1849-1852)
104542 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104542)
alternative representation
Species
Calanus cornutus Dana, 1849-1852 · unaccepted
Eucalanus cornutus Sars G.O., 1912 · unaccepted (Cited only once, at several...)
Cited only once, at several stations in the North Atlantic (p. 654), without doubt for Rhincalanus cornutus
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Calanus cornutus Dana, 1849-1852) Dana, J.D. (1849 - 1852). Conspectus crustaceorum, quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes, e classe Reipublicae foederatae duce, lexit et descripsit Jacobus D. Dana. Pars II. <em>Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 2: 9-61. [Vol. II,. from May 1848-May 1852]. no figures or plates just verbal., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4481593#page/17/mode/1up [details] 
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2026). World of Copepods Database. Rhincalanus cornutus (Dana, 1849-1852). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104542 on 2026-04-24
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Nomenclature
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(of Calanus cornutus Dana, 1849-1852) Dana, J.D. (1849 - 1852). Conspectus crustaceorum, quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes, e classe Reipublicae foederatae duce, lexit et descripsit Jacobus D. Dana. Pars II. <em>Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 2: 9-61. [Vol. II,. from May 1848-May 1852]. no figures or plates just verbal., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4481593#page/17/mode/1up [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]
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, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.203698 [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (PeRMS) Ayón, P., M.I. Criales-Hernández, R. Schwamborn & H.J. Hirche. (2008). Zooplankton research off Peru: A review. <em>Progress in Oceanography.</em> 79(2-4):238-255., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2008.10.020 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Baessa de Aguiar, O. (1990). Contribuiçao para o conhecimento dos copépodes marinhos da costa ocidental de Africa, entre Sao Tomé e Cabo Frio. III. [Contribution to the knowledge of marine copepods on the west coast of Africa, between Sao Tome and Cabo Frio. III. <em>Garcia de Orta, Série de Zoologia, Lisbon.</em> 15(2):179-189. [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 Chen, Q.C. & S.Z. Zhang. (1965). The planktonic copepods of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea. I. Calanoida. Hai Yang K'o Hsueh Chi K'an, Studia Marina Sinica 7(1):20-131, pls. 1-53. (In Chinese; English summary.) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Chiba, T. (1956). Studies on the development and the systematics of Copepoda. Journal of the Shimonoseki College of Fisheries 6(1):1-90. (xi-1956). (In Japanese, English summary.) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Koga, F. (1984). Morphology, ecology, classification and specialization of copepods nauplius. Bulletin of the Nansei Regional Fisheries Research Laboratory 16:95-229, figs. 1-62, tabs. 1-3. (1-1984, Japanese with English summary). [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 Mulyadi. (1998). Taxonomoy reexamination of the Family Eucalanidae (Copepoda, Calanoida), with notes on its distribution in Indonesian waters. <em>Berkala Penelitian Hayati, Journal of Biologiacl Researches.</em> 4:1-22. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Revis, N. & E.N. Okemwa. (1988). Additional records of species of copepods and their distribution in the coastal and inshore waters of Kenya. <em>Kenya Journal of Sciences, Series B.</em> 9(1-2):123-127. [details]
additional source Rader, B.W. (1970). Rhincalanus cornutus (Copepoda): trunk skeletomusculature. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 89(1):75-99., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3224619 [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 Schmaus, P.H. & K. Lehnhofer. (1927). Copepoda 4: Rhincalanus Dana 1852 der Deutschen Tiefsee Expedition. Systematik und Verbreitung der Gattung. [Copepoda 4: Rhincalanus Dana 1852 of the German Deep Sea Expedition. Systematics and distribution of the genus.]. <em>Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition 'Valdivia'.</em> 23: 355-400, figs. 1-29, tabs. a-c. [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 Gómez-Caballero, I.O. (1982). Los copépodos planctónicos del mar peruano. [The planktonic copepods of Peruvian seas.] Boletín de Lima 23:53-70. [In Spanish.] [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 Cass, C.J., S.G. Wakeham & K.L. Daly. (2011). Lipid composition of tropical and subtropical copepod species of the genus Rhincalanus (Copepoda: Eucalanidae): a novel fatty acid and alcohol signature. Marine Ecology Progress Series 439:127-138., available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps09324 [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 Teuber, L., A. Schukat, W. Hagen & H. Auel (2014). Trophic interactions and life strategies of epi- to bathypelagic calanoid copepods in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. <i>Journal Of Plankton Research</i>. 36(4):1109-1123. JUL-AUG 2014, available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbu030 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Soh, H.Y. & S.Y. Moon. (2014). Arthropoda, Maxillopoda, Copepoda, Calanoida : Marine Planktonic Copepods III. <em>Invertebrate Fauna of Korea, National Institute of Biological Resources.</em> 21(34):138 pp. Dec 2014. [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): 23 [details]
additional source Salinas Cadena, M.E. (2007). Abundancia, distribución y variación temporal de copépodos marinos (Calanoideos, harpacticoideos, cyclopoideos, poecilostomatoideos y monstrilloideos), en aguas costeras de la Bahía de Santa Elena: La Libertad durante octubre 2004/octubre 2005. [Abundance, distribution and temporal variation of marine copepods (Calanoids, Harpacticoids, Cyclopoids, Poecilostomatoids and Monstrelloids) in coastal waters of Santa Elena Bay: La Libertad during October 2004/October 2005.]. <em>Tesis de Biología Marina, Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, La Libertad, Ecuador.</em> 261 pp. [In Spanish; English abstract]., available online at https://repositorio.upse.edu.ec/handle/46000/829 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Shoaib, F.M. & Q.B. Kazmi. (2021). Pelagic copepods collected by the northern Arabian Sea Naseer Cruise 1. <em>Lambert Academic Publishing, Dodo Books Indian Ocean Ltd.</em> 242 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
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, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.203698 [details] Available for editors
[request]context source (PeRMS) Ayón, P., M.I. Criales-Hernández, R. Schwamborn & H.J. Hirche. (2008). Zooplankton research off Peru: A review. <em>Progress in Oceanography.</em> 79(2-4):238-255., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2008.10.020 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Baessa de Aguiar, O. (1990). Contribuiçao para o conhecimento dos copépodes marinhos da costa ocidental de Africa, entre Sao Tomé e Cabo Frio. III. [Contribution to the knowledge of marine copepods on the west coast of Africa, between Sao Tome and Cabo Frio. III. <em>Garcia de Orta, Série de Zoologia, Lisbon.</em> 15(2):179-189. [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 Chen, Q.C. & S.Z. Zhang. (1965). The planktonic copepods of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea. I. Calanoida. Hai Yang K'o Hsueh Chi K'an, Studia Marina Sinica 7(1):20-131, pls. 1-53. (In Chinese; English summary.) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Chiba, T. (1956). Studies on the development and the systematics of Copepoda. Journal of the Shimonoseki College of Fisheries 6(1):1-90. (xi-1956). (In Japanese, English summary.) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Koga, F. (1984). Morphology, ecology, classification and specialization of copepods nauplius. Bulletin of the Nansei Regional Fisheries Research Laboratory 16:95-229, figs. 1-62, tabs. 1-3. (1-1984, Japanese with English summary). [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 Mulyadi. (1998). Taxonomoy reexamination of the Family Eucalanidae (Copepoda, Calanoida), with notes on its distribution in Indonesian waters. <em>Berkala Penelitian Hayati, Journal of Biologiacl Researches.</em> 4:1-22. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Revis, N. & E.N. Okemwa. (1988). Additional records of species of copepods and their distribution in the coastal and inshore waters of Kenya. <em>Kenya Journal of Sciences, Series B.</em> 9(1-2):123-127. [details]
additional source Rader, B.W. (1970). Rhincalanus cornutus (Copepoda): trunk skeletomusculature. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 89(1):75-99., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3224619 [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 Schmaus, P.H. & K. Lehnhofer. (1927). Copepoda 4: Rhincalanus Dana 1852 der Deutschen Tiefsee Expedition. Systematik und Verbreitung der Gattung. [Copepoda 4: Rhincalanus Dana 1852 of the German Deep Sea Expedition. Systematics and distribution of the genus.]. <em>Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition 'Valdivia'.</em> 23: 355-400, figs. 1-29, tabs. a-c. [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 Gómez-Caballero, I.O. (1982). Los copépodos planctónicos del mar peruano. [The planktonic copepods of Peruvian seas.] Boletín de Lima 23:53-70. [In Spanish.] [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 Cass, C.J., S.G. Wakeham & K.L. Daly. (2011). Lipid composition of tropical and subtropical copepod species of the genus Rhincalanus (Copepoda: Eucalanidae): a novel fatty acid and alcohol signature. Marine Ecology Progress Series 439:127-138., available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps09324 [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 Teuber, L., A. Schukat, W. Hagen & H. Auel (2014). Trophic interactions and life strategies of epi- to bathypelagic calanoid copepods in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. <i>Journal Of Plankton Research</i>. 36(4):1109-1123. JUL-AUG 2014, available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbu030 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Soh, H.Y. & S.Y. Moon. (2014). Arthropoda, Maxillopoda, Copepoda, Calanoida : Marine Planktonic Copepods III. <em>Invertebrate Fauna of Korea, National Institute of Biological Resources.</em> 21(34):138 pp. Dec 2014. [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): 23 [details]
additional source Salinas Cadena, M.E. (2007). Abundancia, distribución y variación temporal de copépodos marinos (Calanoideos, harpacticoideos, cyclopoideos, poecilostomatoideos y monstrilloideos), en aguas costeras de la Bahía de Santa Elena: La Libertad durante octubre 2004/octubre 2005. [Abundance, distribution and temporal variation of marine copepods (Calanoids, Harpacticoids, Cyclopoids, Poecilostomatoids and Monstrelloids) in coastal waters of Santa Elena Bay: La Libertad during October 2004/October 2005.]. <em>Tesis de Biología Marina, Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, La Libertad, Ecuador.</em> 261 pp. [In Spanish; English abstract]., available online at https://repositorio.upse.edu.ec/handle/46000/829 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Shoaib, F.M. & Q.B. Kazmi. (2021). Pelagic copepods collected by the northern Arabian Sea Naseer Cruise 1. <em>Lambert Academic Publishing, Dodo Books Indian Ocean Ltd.</em> 242 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]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 Known from seamounts and knolls [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 (54 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Rhincalanus cornutus)
To GenBank (42 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (69 records)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (54 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Rhincalanus cornutus)
To GenBank (42 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (69 records)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
