WoRMS taxon details
Euphausia similis G.O. Sars, 1883
221048 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:221048)
accepted
Species
Euphausia similis var. armata Hansen, 1911 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Euphausia similis var. crassirostris Hansen, 1910 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Variety Euphausia similis var. armata Hansen, 1911 accepted as Euphausia similis G.O. Sars, 1883 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Euphausia similis var. crassirostris Hansen, 1910 accepted as Euphausia similis G.O. Sars, 1883 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Sars, G.O. (1884). Preliminary notices on the Schizopoda of H.M.S. Challenger Expedition. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania.</em> 1883 (7): 1-43., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43842640 [details] 
distribution depth in m: 300; horizontal distribution: sub-Antarctic, circumpolar, north of Sub-Antarctic front between about 25-55°S,...
distribution depth in m: <300; horizontal distribution: sub-Antarctic, circumpolar, north of Sub-Antarctic front between about 25-55°S, western North Pacific, northward into the Kuroshio Current [details]
Siegel, V.; De Grave, S. (Ed) (2026). World Euphausiacea Database. Euphausia similis G.O. Sars, 1883. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=221048 on 2026-09-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Sars, G.O. (1884). Preliminary notices on the Schizopoda of H.M.S. Challenger Expedition. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania.</em> 1883 (7): 1-43., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43842640 [details]
original description (of Euphausia similis var. crassirostris Hansen, 1910) Hansen, H.J. (1910). The Schizopoda of the Siboga Expedition. -. <em>Siboga Exped., 37: 1-123, pls. 1-16.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10421 [details]
original description (of Euphausia similis var. armata Hansen, 1911) Hansen, H.J. (1911). The genera and species of the order Euphausiacea, with account of remarkable variation. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique.</em> 210: 1-54. [details]
basis of record NODC. (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes. [details]
original description (of Euphausia similis var. crassirostris Hansen, 1910) Hansen, H.J. (1910). The Schizopoda of the Siboga Expedition. -. <em>Siboga Exped., 37: 1-123, pls. 1-16.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10421 [details]
original description (of Euphausia similis var. armata Hansen, 1911) Hansen, H.J. (1911). The genera and species of the order Euphausiacea, with account of remarkable variation. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique.</em> 210: 1-54. [details]
basis of record NODC. (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes. [details]
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 Baker AdeC, Boden BP, Brinton E (1990) A Practical Guide to the Euphausiids of the World. London : Natural History Museum Publications, 1989 [details]
additional source Boden, BP., Johnson, W., Brinton E., (2000). The Euphausiacea (Crustacea) of the North Pacific. Bulletin of the Scrips Institution of Oceanography of the Universuty of Californis, 6,8:287-400 [details]
additional source Boltovskoy D. (Ed.). (1999). South Atlantic Zooplankton 2 vol. Backhuys Publishers. Leiden. 1706 pp. [details] Available for editors
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additional source Brinton E, Ohman MD, Townsend AW, Knight MD, Bridgeman AL (2000) Euphausiids of the world ocean. ETI World Biodiversity database CD ROM Series. Springer Publ. Heidelberg [details]
additional source Hunt, B.P.V. & E.A. Pakhomov. (2003). Mesozooplankton interactions with the shelf around the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands archipelago. Journal of Plankton Research 25(8): 885-904., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/25.8.885 [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 Mauchline, J. and Fisher, L.R. (1969) The Biology of Euphausiids. Advances in Marine Biology 7: 1-454 [details]
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 Baker AdeC, Boden BP, Brinton E (1990) A Practical Guide to the Euphausiids of the World. London : Natural History Museum Publications, 1989 [details]
additional source Boden, BP., Johnson, W., Brinton E., (2000). The Euphausiacea (Crustacea) of the North Pacific. Bulletin of the Scrips Institution of Oceanography of the Universuty of Californis, 6,8:287-400 [details]
additional source Boltovskoy D. (Ed.). (1999). South Atlantic Zooplankton 2 vol. Backhuys Publishers. Leiden. 1706 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Brinton E, Ohman MD, Townsend AW, Knight MD, Bridgeman AL (2000) Euphausiids of the world ocean. ETI World Biodiversity database CD ROM Series. Springer Publ. Heidelberg [details]
additional source Hunt, B.P.V. & E.A. Pakhomov. (2003). Mesozooplankton interactions with the shelf around the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands archipelago. Journal of Plankton Research 25(8): 885-904., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/25.8.885 [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 Mauchline, J. and Fisher, L.R. (1969) The Biology of Euphausiids. Advances in Marine Biology 7: 1-454 [details]
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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
distribution depth in m: <300; horizontal distribution: sub-Antarctic, circumpolar, north of Sub-Antarctic front between about 25-55°S, western North Pacific, northward into the Kuroshio Current [details]Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
