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Epischura lacustris Forbes S.A., 1882
157669 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157669)
accepted
Species
Forbes, S.A. (1882). On some Entomostraca of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters. American Naturalist 16:537-543, 640-650, figs. (vii-1882) [details] 
Distribution Saguenay Fjord; lower St. Lawrence estuary
Distribution Saguenay Fjord; lower St. Lawrence estuary [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Epischura lacustris Forbes S.A., 1882. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157669 on 2025-06-10
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Forbes, S.A. (1882). On some Entomostraca of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters. American Naturalist 16:537-543, 640-650, figs. (vii-1882) [details]
basis of record 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
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basis of record 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
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additional source
Chow-Fraser, P. & C.K. Wong. (1985). Herbivorous feeding of three large freshwater calanoid copepods, Limnocalanus macrurus Sars, Senecella calanoides Juday and Epischura lacustris Forbes. Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 22(5):3195-3198, figs. 1-2. (vi-1985) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Chow-Fraser, P. & C.K. Wong. (1986). Dietary change during development in the freshwater calanoid copepod Epischura lacustris Forbes. <em>Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 43(5):938-944. (French summary)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/f86-116 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Dussart, B.H. & D. Defaye. (2001). Copepoda: Introduction to the Copepoda. (2nd edition)(revised and enlarged). <em>Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World. H.J.F. Dumont (ed.). SPB Academic Publishers, The Hague.</em> 16:1-344. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Forbes, S.A. (1891). On some Lake Superior Entomostraca. <em>Annual Report of the U.S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, 1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.</em> appendix 8:701-718, pls. 1-4. (24-viii-1891) [for 1890]. [details]
additional source Herrick, C.L. (1895). Part I. Copepoda of Minnesota. <em>In: Herrick, C.L. & C.H. Turner (eds.). Second report of the State Zoologist including a synopsis of the Entomostraca of Minnesota. Geological Natural History Survery of Minnesota (Zoological Series.).</em> 2:41-138, 81 plates. [details]
additional source Guerne, J. de & J. Richard. (1889). Révision des Calanides d'eau douce. [Revision of freshwater Calanidae.]. <em>Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 2:1-129 , figs. 1-60, pls. 1-4. [details]
additional source Marsh, C.D. (1893). On the Cyclopidae and Calanidae of central Wisconsin. <em>Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.</em> 9:189-224, pls. 3-6. [Read before the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, June 1892]. [details]
additional source Marsh, C.D. (1895). On the Cyclopidae and Calanidae of Lake St. Clair, Lake Michigan, and certain of the inland lakes of Michigan. <em>Bulletin of the Michigan Fish Commission, Lansing.</em> 5:1-24, pls. 1-9. (completed volume in 1897). [details]
additional source Marsh, C.D. (1900). On some points in the structure of the larva of Epischura lacustris Forbes. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 12:544-549, pls. 12-13. [details]
additional source Main, R.A. (1962). The life history and food relations of Epischura lacustris Forbes (Copepoda: Calanoida). Ph.D. Thesis, University of Michigan [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Marsh, C.D. (1933). Synopsis of the calanoid crustaceans, exclusive of the Diaptomidae, found in fresh and brackish waters, chiefly of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 82(18)(2959):1-58, pls. 1-24. (30-vi-1933) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sierszen, M.E. & T.M. Frost. (1993). Response of predatory zooplankton populations to the experimental acidification of Little Rock Lake, Wisconsin. <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 15(5):553-562., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/15.5.553 [details]
additional source Rigler, F.H. & R.R. Langford. (1967). Cogeneric occurrence of species of Diaptomus in southern Ontario lakes. Canadian Journal of Zoology 45:81-90, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-4. (i-1967) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Schacht, F.W. (1898). The North American Centropagidae belonging to the genera Osphranticum, Limnocalanus, and Epischura. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History 5(4):225-270. [details]
additional source Schulze, P.C. (1989). The effects of food resources and conspecifics on the foraging, survivorship, and reproduction of the omnivorous copepod, Epischura lacustris. Ph.D. Thesis, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A. [details]
additional source Schulze, P.C. & C.L. Folt. (1990). Food resources, survivorship, and reproduction of the omnivorous calanoid copepod Epischura lacustris. Ecology 71(6):2224-2240. [details]
additional source Smith, K.E. (1977). The taxonomy and distribution of Ontario copepod Crustacea (Calanoida and Cyclopoida) with keys to the species. <em>M.Sc. Thesis, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.</em> 121 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Wong, C.K. (1981). Predatory feeding behavior of Epischura lacustris (Copepoda, Calanoida) and prey defense. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 38(3):275-279, figs. 1-4, tabs. 1-2. (iii-1982, French summary.) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Wong, C.K. & P. Chow-Fraser. (1985). The food of three large freshwater calanoid copepods: Limnocalanus macrurus Sars, Epischura lacustris Forbes, and Senecella calanoides Juday. Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 22(5):3190-3194, figs. 1-3. (vi-1985) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pinel-Alloul, B. & A. Patoine. (2000). Comparative Impact of Natural Fires and Forest Logging on Zooplankton Communities of Boreal Lakes. <em>Sustainable Forest Management Network Final Report.</em> 39 pp., available online at https://doi.org/10.7939/R30F4V [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Chow-Fraser, P. & C.K. Wong. (1986). Dietary change during development in the freshwater calanoid copepod Epischura lacustris Forbes. <em>Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 43(5):938-944. (French summary)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/f86-116 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Dussart, B.H. & D. Defaye. (2001). Copepoda: Introduction to the Copepoda. (2nd edition)(revised and enlarged). <em>Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World. H.J.F. Dumont (ed.). SPB Academic Publishers, The Hague.</em> 16:1-344. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Forbes, S.A. (1891). On some Lake Superior Entomostraca. <em>Annual Report of the U.S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, 1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.</em> appendix 8:701-718, pls. 1-4. (24-viii-1891) [for 1890]. [details]
additional source Herrick, C.L. (1895). Part I. Copepoda of Minnesota. <em>In: Herrick, C.L. & C.H. Turner (eds.). Second report of the State Zoologist including a synopsis of the Entomostraca of Minnesota. Geological Natural History Survery of Minnesota (Zoological Series.).</em> 2:41-138, 81 plates. [details]
additional source Guerne, J. de & J. Richard. (1889). Révision des Calanides d'eau douce. [Revision of freshwater Calanidae.]. <em>Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 2:1-129 , figs. 1-60, pls. 1-4. [details]
additional source Marsh, C.D. (1893). On the Cyclopidae and Calanidae of central Wisconsin. <em>Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.</em> 9:189-224, pls. 3-6. [Read before the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, June 1892]. [details]
additional source Marsh, C.D. (1895). On the Cyclopidae and Calanidae of Lake St. Clair, Lake Michigan, and certain of the inland lakes of Michigan. <em>Bulletin of the Michigan Fish Commission, Lansing.</em> 5:1-24, pls. 1-9. (completed volume in 1897). [details]
additional source Marsh, C.D. (1900). On some points in the structure of the larva of Epischura lacustris Forbes. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 12:544-549, pls. 12-13. [details]
additional source Main, R.A. (1962). The life history and food relations of Epischura lacustris Forbes (Copepoda: Calanoida). Ph.D. Thesis, University of Michigan [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Marsh, C.D. (1933). Synopsis of the calanoid crustaceans, exclusive of the Diaptomidae, found in fresh and brackish waters, chiefly of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 82(18)(2959):1-58, pls. 1-24. (30-vi-1933) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sierszen, M.E. & T.M. Frost. (1993). Response of predatory zooplankton populations to the experimental acidification of Little Rock Lake, Wisconsin. <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 15(5):553-562., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/15.5.553 [details]
additional source Rigler, F.H. & R.R. Langford. (1967). Cogeneric occurrence of species of Diaptomus in southern Ontario lakes. Canadian Journal of Zoology 45:81-90, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-4. (i-1967) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Schacht, F.W. (1898). The North American Centropagidae belonging to the genera Osphranticum, Limnocalanus, and Epischura. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History 5(4):225-270. [details]
additional source Schulze, P.C. (1989). The effects of food resources and conspecifics on the foraging, survivorship, and reproduction of the omnivorous copepod, Epischura lacustris. Ph.D. Thesis, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A. [details]
additional source Schulze, P.C. & C.L. Folt. (1990). Food resources, survivorship, and reproduction of the omnivorous calanoid copepod Epischura lacustris. Ecology 71(6):2224-2240. [details]
additional source Smith, K.E. (1977). The taxonomy and distribution of Ontario copepod Crustacea (Calanoida and Cyclopoida) with keys to the species. <em>M.Sc. Thesis, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.</em> 121 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Wong, C.K. (1981). Predatory feeding behavior of Epischura lacustris (Copepoda, Calanoida) and prey defense. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 38(3):275-279, figs. 1-4, tabs. 1-2. (iii-1982, French summary.) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Wong, C.K. & P. Chow-Fraser. (1985). The food of three large freshwater calanoid copepods: Limnocalanus macrurus Sars, Epischura lacustris Forbes, and Senecella calanoides Juday. Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 22(5):3190-3194, figs. 1-3. (vi-1985) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pinel-Alloul, B. & A. Patoine. (2000). Comparative Impact of Natural Fires and Forest Logging on Zooplankton Communities of Boreal Lakes. <em>Sustainable Forest Management Network Final Report.</em> 39 pp., available online at https://doi.org/10.7939/R30F4V [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
