WoRMS name details
Metridia longa (Lubbock, 1854)
104632 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104632)
alternative representation
Species
Calanus longus Lubbock, 1854 · unaccepted
Metridia armata Boeck, 1865 · unaccepted
- Subspecies Metridia longa longa (Lubbock, 1854)
- Subspecies Metridia longa spinulosa Linko, 1913
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Calanus longus Lubbock, 1854) Lubbock, J. (1854). On some arctic species of Calanidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2)14:125-129, pl. 5. (viii-1854) [details] 
Distribution Arctic to Long Island Sound
Distribution Arctic to Long Island Sound [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Metridia longa (Lubbock, 1854). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104632 on 2025-12-02
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Nomenclature
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(of Calanus longus Lubbock, 1854) Lubbock, J. (1854). On some arctic species of Calanidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2)14:125-129, pl. 5. (viii-1854) [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 [details] Available for editors [request]
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 Scott, T. (1899). Report on the marine and freshwater Crustacea from Franz-Josef Land, collected by Mr. William S. Bruce, of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology.</em> 27:60-126, pls. 3-9. (1-vii-1899). [details]
additional source Sars, G.O. (1900). Crustacea. <em>In: Nansen, F. (ed.). The Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893-1896., Scientific Results.</em> 1(5): 1-141, Plates 1-36., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17104697#page/9/mode/1up [details]
additional source Arcos, D.F. (1975). Copépodes calanoídeos de la Bahía de Concepción, Chile. Conocimiento sistemático y variación estacional. [Calanoid Copepods of the Concepcion Bay, Chile, Systematic study and seasonal variation.]. <em>Gayana, Zoología.</em> 32:3-31, figs. 1-7, pls. 1-9 with figs. 1-78, map. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bamstedt, U. & A. Ervik. (1984). Local variation in size and activity among Calanus finmarchicus and Metridia longa (Copepoda, Calanoida) overwintering on the west coast of Norway. <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 6(5):843-857, figs. 1-3, tabs. 1-9. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bamstedt, U. & K.S. Tande. (1988). Physiological responses of Calanus finmarchicus and Metridia longa (Copepoda: Calanoida) during the winter-spring transition. Marine Biology, Berlin 99(1):31-38, figs. 1-6, tabs. 1-4. (viii.1988) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bucklin, A., B.W. Frost & T.D. Kocher. (1995). Molecular systematics of six Calanus and three Metridia species (Calanoida: Copepoda). Marine Biology 121(4):655-664. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Geiger, S.R. (1966). Size variation in Metridia longa (Lubbock). In: Barnes, H. (ed.). Some contemporary studies in marine science. Allen & Unwin Ltd., New York :335-341, figs. 1-2, tab. 1. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Haq, S.M. (1967). Nutritional physiology of Metridia lucens and M. longa from the Gulf of Maine. <em>Limnology and Oceanography.</em> 12(1):40-51, figs. 1-3, tabs. 1-5. (i-1967). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hays, G.C. (1995). Ontogenetic and seasonal variation in the diel vertical migration of the copepods Metridia lucens and Metridia longa. Limnology and Oceanography 40(8):1461-1465. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lapota, D., T.E. Bowman & J.R. Losee. (1988). Observations on bioluminescence in the nauplius of Metridia longa (Copepoda, Calanoida) in the Norwegian Sea. Crustaceana, Leiden 54(3):314-320, fig. 1, tab. 1. (v.1988) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Linko, A.K. (1907). Untersuchungen über das Plankton des Barents Meeres. [Investigations on the plankton of the Barents Sea.]. <em>Wissenschaftlich praktische Murman Expedition, St. Petersburg.</em> :1-247, figs.1-21. [details]
additional source Markova, S.V., S. Golz, L.A. Frank, B. Kalthof & E.S. Vysotski. (2004). Cloning and expression of cDNA for a luciferase from the marine copepod Metridia longa: A novel secreted bioluminescent reporter enzyme. Journal of Biological Chemistry 279(5):3212-3217. [details]
additional source Sars, G.O. (1902). Copepoda Calanoida, Parts IX & X, Temoridae, Metridiidae, Heterorhabdidae. <em>An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum.</em> 4: 97-120, pls. 65-80. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Tande, K.S. & S. Gronvik. (1983). Ecological investigations on the zooplankton community of Balsfjorden, northern Norway: sex ratio and gonad maturation cycle in the copepod Metridia longa (Lubbock). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 71(1):43-54, figs. 1-6, tab. 1. (15-viii-1983) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Plourde, S. & P. Joly. (2008). Comparison of in situ egg production rate in Calanus finmarchicus and Metridia longa: discriminating between methodological and species-specific effects. <em>Marine Ecology Progress Series.</em> 353:165-175. Jan 2008., available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07181 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Stepanyuk, G.A., H. Xu, C.K. Wu, S.V. Markova, J. Lee, E.S. Vysotski & B.C. Wang. (2008). Expression, purification and characterization of the secreted luciferase of the copepod Metridia longa from Sf9 insect cells. <em>Protein Expression and Purification.</em> 61(2):142-148., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pep.2008.05.013 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Daase, M., K. Eiane, D.L. Aksnes & D. Vogedes. (2008). Vertical distribution of Calanus spp. and Metridia longa at four Arctic locations. <em>Marine Biology Research.</em> 4(3):193-207. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ershova, E.A. & K.N. Kosobokova. (2012). Morfologiya polovoy sistemy i reproduktivnaya biologiya arkticheskogo kalanoidnogo veslonogogo rachka Metridia longa. [Morphology of genital system and reproductive biology of the arctic calanoid copepod Metridia longa. ]. <em>Zoologicheskii Zhurnal.</em> 91(2):138-147. (Russian). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Markova, S.V., L.P. Burakova & E.S. Vysotski. (2012). High-active truncated luciferase of copepod Metridia longa. Biochemical & Biophysical Research Communications 417(1):98-103. [details]
additional source Vestheim, H., S. Brucet & S. Kaartvedt. (2013). Vertical distribution, feeding and vulnerability to tactile predation in Metridia longa (Copepoda, Calanoida). Marine Biology Research 9(10):949-957. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2013.793806 [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 Ershova, E.A. & K.N. Kosobokova. (2012). Morphology of genital system and reproductive biology of the arctic calanoid copepod Metridia longa. <em>Biology Bulletin.</em> 39(8): 676–683. (English), Zoologischeskii Zhurnal 91(2):138-147. (Russian). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Yurikova D.A., K.N. Kosobokova & A.V. Savchenko. (2023). Investigation of the reproductive system in calanoid copepods: A new approach using 3D reconstructions from serial semi-thin crosssections in Calanus glacialis and Metridia longa. <em>Arthropod Structure & Development.</em> 73(12-14):1-9. 101249., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2023.101249 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Schmid, M. (2017). The race for lipids : ontogeny of the fine-scale vertical co-distribution of arctic calanoid copepods and their phytoplankton food as elucidated by artificial intelligence coupled with an imaging profiler. <em>Thèse de Doctorat, Université Laval, Montréal, Québec, Canada.</em> 131 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lightfoot, M. (2023). Light sensitivity of the Arctic copepod Metridia longa during Midnight Sun and Polar Night. <em>M.Sc. Thesis, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA.</em> 67 pp., available online at https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/33254 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32. [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 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 Scott, T. (1899). Report on the marine and freshwater Crustacea from Franz-Josef Land, collected by Mr. William S. Bruce, of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology.</em> 27:60-126, pls. 3-9. (1-vii-1899). [details]
additional source Sars, G.O. (1900). Crustacea. <em>In: Nansen, F. (ed.). The Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893-1896., Scientific Results.</em> 1(5): 1-141, Plates 1-36., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17104697#page/9/mode/1up [details]
additional source Arcos, D.F. (1975). Copépodes calanoídeos de la Bahía de Concepción, Chile. Conocimiento sistemático y variación estacional. [Calanoid Copepods of the Concepcion Bay, Chile, Systematic study and seasonal variation.]. <em>Gayana, Zoología.</em> 32:3-31, figs. 1-7, pls. 1-9 with figs. 1-78, map. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bamstedt, U. & A. Ervik. (1984). Local variation in size and activity among Calanus finmarchicus and Metridia longa (Copepoda, Calanoida) overwintering on the west coast of Norway. <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 6(5):843-857, figs. 1-3, tabs. 1-9. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bamstedt, U. & K.S. Tande. (1988). Physiological responses of Calanus finmarchicus and Metridia longa (Copepoda: Calanoida) during the winter-spring transition. Marine Biology, Berlin 99(1):31-38, figs. 1-6, tabs. 1-4. (viii.1988) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bucklin, A., B.W. Frost & T.D. Kocher. (1995). Molecular systematics of six Calanus and three Metridia species (Calanoida: Copepoda). Marine Biology 121(4):655-664. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Geiger, S.R. (1966). Size variation in Metridia longa (Lubbock). In: Barnes, H. (ed.). Some contemporary studies in marine science. Allen & Unwin Ltd., New York :335-341, figs. 1-2, tab. 1. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Haq, S.M. (1967). Nutritional physiology of Metridia lucens and M. longa from the Gulf of Maine. <em>Limnology and Oceanography.</em> 12(1):40-51, figs. 1-3, tabs. 1-5. (i-1967). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Hays, G.C. (1995). Ontogenetic and seasonal variation in the diel vertical migration of the copepods Metridia lucens and Metridia longa. Limnology and Oceanography 40(8):1461-1465. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lapota, D., T.E. Bowman & J.R. Losee. (1988). Observations on bioluminescence in the nauplius of Metridia longa (Copepoda, Calanoida) in the Norwegian Sea. Crustaceana, Leiden 54(3):314-320, fig. 1, tab. 1. (v.1988) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Linko, A.K. (1907). Untersuchungen über das Plankton des Barents Meeres. [Investigations on the plankton of the Barents Sea.]. <em>Wissenschaftlich praktische Murman Expedition, St. Petersburg.</em> :1-247, figs.1-21. [details]
additional source Markova, S.V., S. Golz, L.A. Frank, B. Kalthof & E.S. Vysotski. (2004). Cloning and expression of cDNA for a luciferase from the marine copepod Metridia longa: A novel secreted bioluminescent reporter enzyme. Journal of Biological Chemistry 279(5):3212-3217. [details]
additional source Sars, G.O. (1902). Copepoda Calanoida, Parts IX & X, Temoridae, Metridiidae, Heterorhabdidae. <em>An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum.</em> 4: 97-120, pls. 65-80. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Tande, K.S. & S. Gronvik. (1983). Ecological investigations on the zooplankton community of Balsfjorden, northern Norway: sex ratio and gonad maturation cycle in the copepod Metridia longa (Lubbock). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 71(1):43-54, figs. 1-6, tab. 1. (15-viii-1983) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Plourde, S. & P. Joly. (2008). Comparison of in situ egg production rate in Calanus finmarchicus and Metridia longa: discriminating between methodological and species-specific effects. <em>Marine Ecology Progress Series.</em> 353:165-175. Jan 2008., available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07181 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Stepanyuk, G.A., H. Xu, C.K. Wu, S.V. Markova, J. Lee, E.S. Vysotski & B.C. Wang. (2008). Expression, purification and characterization of the secreted luciferase of the copepod Metridia longa from Sf9 insect cells. <em>Protein Expression and Purification.</em> 61(2):142-148., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pep.2008.05.013 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Daase, M., K. Eiane, D.L. Aksnes & D. Vogedes. (2008). Vertical distribution of Calanus spp. and Metridia longa at four Arctic locations. <em>Marine Biology Research.</em> 4(3):193-207. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ershova, E.A. & K.N. Kosobokova. (2012). Morfologiya polovoy sistemy i reproduktivnaya biologiya arkticheskogo kalanoidnogo veslonogogo rachka Metridia longa. [Morphology of genital system and reproductive biology of the arctic calanoid copepod Metridia longa. ]. <em>Zoologicheskii Zhurnal.</em> 91(2):138-147. (Russian). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Markova, S.V., L.P. Burakova & E.S. Vysotski. (2012). High-active truncated luciferase of copepod Metridia longa. Biochemical & Biophysical Research Communications 417(1):98-103. [details]
additional source Vestheim, H., S. Brucet & S. Kaartvedt. (2013). Vertical distribution, feeding and vulnerability to tactile predation in Metridia longa (Copepoda, Calanoida). Marine Biology Research 9(10):949-957. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2013.793806 [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 Ershova, E.A. & K.N. Kosobokova. (2012). Morphology of genital system and reproductive biology of the arctic calanoid copepod Metridia longa. <em>Biology Bulletin.</em> 39(8): 676–683. (English), Zoologischeskii Zhurnal 91(2):138-147. (Russian). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Yurikova D.A., K.N. Kosobokova & A.V. Savchenko. (2023). Investigation of the reproductive system in calanoid copepods: A new approach using 3D reconstructions from serial semi-thin crosssections in Calanus glacialis and Metridia longa. <em>Arthropod Structure & Development.</em> 73(12-14):1-9. 101249., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2023.101249 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Schmid, M. (2017). The race for lipids : ontogeny of the fine-scale vertical co-distribution of arctic calanoid copepods and their phytoplankton food as elucidated by artificial intelligence coupled with an imaging profiler. <em>Thèse de Doctorat, Université Laval, Montréal, Québec, Canada.</em> 131 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lightfoot, M. (2023). Light sensitivity of the Arctic copepod Metridia longa during Midnight Sun and Polar Night. <em>M.Sc. Thesis, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA.</em> 67 pp., available online at https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/33254 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution Arctic to Long Island Sound [details]Habitat upper region of the mesopelagic and glacial 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 (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (111 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Calanus longus Lubbock, 1854)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (57 publications) (from synonym Metridia armata Boeck, 1865)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Metridia longa)
To GenBank (285 nucleotides; 13 proteins) (from synonym Calanus longus Lubbock, 1854)
To GenBank (285 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (54 records)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (111 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Calanus longus Lubbock, 1854)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (57 publications) (from synonym Metridia armata Boeck, 1865)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Metridia longa)
To GenBank (285 nucleotides; 13 proteins) (from synonym Calanus longus Lubbock, 1854)
To GenBank (285 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (54 records)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
