WoRMS taxon details
Calanus chilensis Brodsky, 1959
346212 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:346212)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Brodsky, K.A. (1959). O filogeneticheskikh otnosheniyakh nekotorykh vidov Calanus (Copepoda) severnogo i yuzhnogo polusharii. [On phylogenetic relations of some Calanus (Copepoda) species of northern and southern hemispheres. ]. <em>Zoologicheskii Zhurnal.</em> 33(10):1537-1553, figs. 1-5. (23-ix-1959, Russian with English summary.). [details] Available for editors 
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Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2026). World of Copepods Database. Calanus chilensis Brodsky, 1959. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=346212 on 2026-08-03
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Brodsky, K.A. (1959). O filogeneticheskikh otnosheniyakh nekotorykh vidov Calanus (Copepoda) severnogo i yuzhnogo polusharii. [On phylogenetic relations of some Calanus (Copepoda) species of northern and southern hemispheres. ]. <em>Zoologicheskii Zhurnal.</em> 33(10):1537-1553, figs. 1-5. (23-ix-1959, Russian with English summary.). [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]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 [request]
[request]Other
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 (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 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 Dippenaar, S.M. & P.A.S. Olivier. (1999). New morphological information of the parasitic copepod Kroyeria dispar Wilson, 1935 (Copepoda: Kroyeriidae) from the east coast of South Africa. <em>South African Journal of Zoology.</em> 34(3):125-129. (vii.1999)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/02541858.1999.11448497 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Brodsky, K.A. (1959). O bipolyarnom raspredelenii nekotorykh predstaviteley planktona (roda Calanus). [On the bipolar distribution of some members of the plankton (genus Calanus).]. <em>Journal of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition.</em> 6:35-39. [Russian]. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ruz, P.M., P. Hidalgo, R. Escribano, J.E. Keister, L. Yebra & B. Franco-Cisterna. (2018). Hypoxia effects on females and early stages of Calanus chilensis in the Humboldt Current ecosystem (23 degrees S). Journal Of Experimental Marine Biology And Ecology, 498:61-71., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2017.09.018 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Rivera, R., R. Escribano, C.E. González & M. Pérez‑Aragón. (2023). Modeling present and future distribution of plankton populations in a coastal upwelling zone: the copepod Calanus chilensis as a study case. <em>Scientific Reports.</em> 13:1-13., available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29541-9 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Contreras Muñoz, G. (2013). Efecto de la concentración de oxígeno disuelto (Normoxia-Hipoxia) sobre tasas fisiológicas del zooplancton en la zona norte y centro-sur de Chile. [Effect of dissolved oxygen concentration (normoxia-hypoxia) on zooplankton physiological rates in northern and south-central Chile.]. <em>Tesis Pregrado, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.</em> [In Spanish]., available online at https://repositorio.udec.cl/handle/11594/10415 [details]
additional source Brodsky, K.A. (1961). Comparison of Calanus species (Copepoda) from the southern and northern hemispheres. Contributions of the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute [Translation of part of Brodsky, K.A. 1959. Zool. Zh. 33:1537-1552.] 95:5-22, pls. 1-4, tab. 1. (Also as:Inf. Ser. Dep. scient. ind. Res. N.Z., 33). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Escribano, R. & L. Rodriguez. (1995). Seasonal size variation and growth of Calanus chilensis Brodsky in northern Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, Santiago de Chile 68(3):373-382. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Escribano, R., C. Irribarren & L. Rodriguez. (1996). Temperature and female size effects on egg production of Calanus chilensis: laboratory observations. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, Santiago de Chile 69(3):365-377. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Escribano, R., C. Irribarren & L. Rodriguez. (1997). Influence of food quantity and temperature on development and growth of the marine copepod Calanus chilensis from northern Chile. <em>Marine Biology.</em> 128(1)::281-288., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s002270050093 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Escribano, R., L. Rodriguez & C. Irribarren. (1998). Temperature-dependent development and growth of Calanus chilensis Brodsky from northern Chile. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 229(1):19-34. (31.x.1998), available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-0981(98)00038-0 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Engman, J.A. (1994). Phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Heterocope Sars 1863 (Copepoda: Calanoida): A molecular genetic, morphological, and distributional analysis. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 361 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Escribano, R. (1998). Population dynamics of Calanus chilensis in the Chilean Eastern Boundary Humboldt Current. <em>Fisheries Oceanography.</em> 7(3-4):245-251. (ix-xii.1998)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2419.1998.00078.x [details]
additional source Giraldo, A., R. Escribano & V. Marin. (2002). Spatial distribution of Calanus chilensis off Mejillones Peninsula (northern Chile): ecological consequences upon coastal upwelling. <em>Marine Ecology Progress Series.</em> 230:225-234., available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps230225 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Giraldo, A., R. Escribano & V. Marín. (2006). A field test of temperature effects on ecophysiological responses of copepodid Calanus chilensis during coastal upwelling in northern Chile. <em>Continental Shelf Research.</em> 26(11):1307-1315., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2006.04.005 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Gonzalez, A. & V.H. Marin. (1998). Distribution and life cycle of Calanus chilensis and Centropages brachiatus (Copepoda) in Chilean coastal water: a GSI approach. Marine Ecology Progress Series 165:109-117., available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps165109 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Marín, V.H., S. Espinoza & A. Fleminger. (1994). Morphometric study of Calanus chilensis males along the Chilean coast. In: Ferrari, F.D. & B.P. Bradley (eds.). Ecology and Morphology of Copepods. Developments in Hydrobiology 102, Hydrobiologia 292/293:75-80, fig.1-4, tab.1-5., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1347-4_10 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Torres, C.G. & R. Escribano. (2003). Growth and development of Calanus chilensis nauplii reared under laboratory conditions: Testing the effects of temperature and food resources. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 294(1): 81-99, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-0981(03)00261-2 [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 Hidalgo, P. & R. Escribano. (2007). Coupling of life cycles of the copepods Calanus chilensis and Centropages brachiatus to upwelling induced variability in the central-southern region of Chile. <em>Progress in Oceanography.</em> 75(3):501-517., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2007.08.028 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hidalgo, P. & R. Escribano. (2008). The life cycles of two coexisting copepods, Calanus chilensis and Centropages brachiatus, in the upwelling zone off northern Chile (23°S). Marine Biology 155(4):429-442., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-008-1041-9 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hirche, H.J., K. Barz, P. Ayon J. Schulz. (2014). High resolution vertical distribution of the copepod Calanus chilensis in relation to the shallow oxygen minimum zone off northern Peru using LOKI, a new plankton imaging system. Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 88:63-73. JUN 2014, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2014.03.001 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ruz, P.M., P. Hidalgo, S. Yañez, R. Escribano & J.E. Keister. (2015). Egg production and hatching success of Calanus chilensis and Acartia tonsa in the northern Chile upwelling zone (23 degrees S), Humboldt Current System. <em>Journal Of Marine Systems.</em> 148:200-212., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2015.03.007 [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 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 Dippenaar, S.M. & P.A.S. Olivier. (1999). New morphological information of the parasitic copepod Kroyeria dispar Wilson, 1935 (Copepoda: Kroyeriidae) from the east coast of South Africa. <em>South African Journal of Zoology.</em> 34(3):125-129. (vii.1999)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/02541858.1999.11448497 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Brodsky, K.A. (1959). O bipolyarnom raspredelenii nekotorykh predstaviteley planktona (roda Calanus). [On the bipolar distribution of some members of the plankton (genus Calanus).]. <em>Journal of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition.</em> 6:35-39. [Russian]. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ruz, P.M., P. Hidalgo, R. Escribano, J.E. Keister, L. Yebra & B. Franco-Cisterna. (2018). Hypoxia effects on females and early stages of Calanus chilensis in the Humboldt Current ecosystem (23 degrees S). Journal Of Experimental Marine Biology And Ecology, 498:61-71., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2017.09.018 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Rivera, R., R. Escribano, C.E. González & M. Pérez‑Aragón. (2023). Modeling present and future distribution of plankton populations in a coastal upwelling zone: the copepod Calanus chilensis as a study case. <em>Scientific Reports.</em> 13:1-13., available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29541-9 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Contreras Muñoz, G. (2013). Efecto de la concentración de oxígeno disuelto (Normoxia-Hipoxia) sobre tasas fisiológicas del zooplancton en la zona norte y centro-sur de Chile. [Effect of dissolved oxygen concentration (normoxia-hypoxia) on zooplankton physiological rates in northern and south-central Chile.]. <em>Tesis Pregrado, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.</em> [In Spanish]., available online at https://repositorio.udec.cl/handle/11594/10415 [details]
additional source Brodsky, K.A. (1961). Comparison of Calanus species (Copepoda) from the southern and northern hemispheres. Contributions of the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute [Translation of part of Brodsky, K.A. 1959. Zool. Zh. 33:1537-1552.] 95:5-22, pls. 1-4, tab. 1. (Also as:Inf. Ser. Dep. scient. ind. Res. N.Z., 33). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Escribano, R. & L. Rodriguez. (1995). Seasonal size variation and growth of Calanus chilensis Brodsky in northern Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, Santiago de Chile 68(3):373-382. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Escribano, R., C. Irribarren & L. Rodriguez. (1996). Temperature and female size effects on egg production of Calanus chilensis: laboratory observations. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, Santiago de Chile 69(3):365-377. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Escribano, R., C. Irribarren & L. Rodriguez. (1997). Influence of food quantity and temperature on development and growth of the marine copepod Calanus chilensis from northern Chile. <em>Marine Biology.</em> 128(1)::281-288., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s002270050093 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Escribano, R., L. Rodriguez & C. Irribarren. (1998). Temperature-dependent development and growth of Calanus chilensis Brodsky from northern Chile. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 229(1):19-34. (31.x.1998), available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-0981(98)00038-0 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Engman, J.A. (1994). Phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Heterocope Sars 1863 (Copepoda: Calanoida): A molecular genetic, morphological, and distributional analysis. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 361 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Escribano, R. (1998). Population dynamics of Calanus chilensis in the Chilean Eastern Boundary Humboldt Current. <em>Fisheries Oceanography.</em> 7(3-4):245-251. (ix-xii.1998)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2419.1998.00078.x [details]
additional source Giraldo, A., R. Escribano & V. Marin. (2002). Spatial distribution of Calanus chilensis off Mejillones Peninsula (northern Chile): ecological consequences upon coastal upwelling. <em>Marine Ecology Progress Series.</em> 230:225-234., available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps230225 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Giraldo, A., R. Escribano & V. Marín. (2006). A field test of temperature effects on ecophysiological responses of copepodid Calanus chilensis during coastal upwelling in northern Chile. <em>Continental Shelf Research.</em> 26(11):1307-1315., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2006.04.005 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Gonzalez, A. & V.H. Marin. (1998). Distribution and life cycle of Calanus chilensis and Centropages brachiatus (Copepoda) in Chilean coastal water: a GSI approach. Marine Ecology Progress Series 165:109-117., available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps165109 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Marín, V.H., S. Espinoza & A. Fleminger. (1994). Morphometric study of Calanus chilensis males along the Chilean coast. In: Ferrari, F.D. & B.P. Bradley (eds.). Ecology and Morphology of Copepods. Developments in Hydrobiology 102, Hydrobiologia 292/293:75-80, fig.1-4, tab.1-5., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1347-4_10 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Torres, C.G. & R. Escribano. (2003). Growth and development of Calanus chilensis nauplii reared under laboratory conditions: Testing the effects of temperature and food resources. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 294(1): 81-99, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-0981(03)00261-2 [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 Hidalgo, P. & R. Escribano. (2007). Coupling of life cycles of the copepods Calanus chilensis and Centropages brachiatus to upwelling induced variability in the central-southern region of Chile. <em>Progress in Oceanography.</em> 75(3):501-517., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2007.08.028 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Hidalgo, P. & R. Escribano. (2008). The life cycles of two coexisting copepods, Calanus chilensis and Centropages brachiatus, in the upwelling zone off northern Chile (23°S). Marine Biology 155(4):429-442., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-008-1041-9 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Hirche, H.J., K. Barz, P. Ayon J. Schulz. (2014). High resolution vertical distribution of the copepod Calanus chilensis in relation to the shallow oxygen minimum zone off northern Peru using LOKI, a new plankton imaging system. Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 88:63-73. JUN 2014, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2014.03.001 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ruz, P.M., P. Hidalgo, S. Yañez, R. Escribano & J.E. Keister. (2015). Egg production and hatching success of Calanus chilensis and Acartia tonsa in the northern Chile upwelling zone (23 degrees S), Humboldt Current System. <em>Journal Of Marine Systems.</em> 148:200-212., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2015.03.007 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls/OOB/UPMC/CNRS) Note: Including taxonomic identification plates, remarks, geographic distribution, ecological information & reference list
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Calanus chilensis)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records)
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Calanus chilensis)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records)
