Belgian Register of Marine Species

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Calanus Leach, 1816

Calanus finmarchicus, Calanus glacialis and Calanus hyperboreus

AphiaID

104152 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104152)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Calanidae Dana, 1846

Original name

Calanus Leach, 1816

Synonymised names

Cetochilus Roussel de Vauzeme, 1834 · unaccepted (synonym)

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Species Calanus minutus Krøyer, 1845 accepted as Pseudocalanus minutus (Krøyer, 1845)
Species Calanus parvus Claus, 1863 accepted as Paracalanus parvus (Claus, 1863) represented as Paracalanus parvus parvus (Claus, 1863) (basionym)
Species Calanus helgolandicus (Claus, 1863) represented as Calanus helgolandicus helgolandicus (Claus, 1863)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Leach, W.E. (1816). Annulosa. In Book Series: Encyclopedia Britannica, vol 1 of 5, supplement to the fourth, fifth and sixth editions. 1(2): 401-453, pls. 20-26. (June1816)., available online at https://digital.nls.uk/encyclopaedia-britannica/archive/193057498 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Calanus Leach, 1816. Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010 onwards) Belgian Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104152 on 2026-08-31

Regional species database citation

VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010 onwards). Belgian Register of Marine Species. Calanus Leach, 1816. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/berms./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104152 on 2026-08-31

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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original description Leach, W.E. (1816). Annulosa. In Book Series: Encyclopedia Britannica, vol 1 of 5, supplement to the fourth, fifth and sixth editions. 1(2): 401-453, pls. 20-26. (June1816)., available online at https://digital.nls.uk/encyclopaedia-britannica/archive/193057498 [details]

original description (of Cetochilus Roussel de Vauzeme, 1834) Roussel de Vauzeme, A. (1834). Description de Cétochilus australis, nouveau genre de Crustacé branchiopode. [Description of Cetochilus australis, a new genus of branchiopod crustacean.]. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Série Zoologie et Biologie Animale, Paris. (2)1:333-338, pl. 9 figs. 1B-9B., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.25117 [details]

basis of record Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 252-268 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Brodsky, K.A. (1964). Rasprostranenie i nekotorye morfologicheskie osobennosti Antarkticheskikh vidov roda Calanus (Copepoda). [Distribution and some morphological features of the Antarctic species of the genus Calanus (Copepoda).]. In: Res. Biol. Issled. Sov. Antarkt. Ekped.(1955-1958 gg), 2, Moskva, Akad. Nauk SSSR, Zool. Inst. Issledovaniya Fauny Morei. 2(10):189-251, figs. 1-32, tabs. (Russian.). [details] Available for editors

additional source Brodsky, K.A. (1967). Tipy genitalii samki i geterogennost' roda Calanus (Copepoda). [Types of female genitalia and heterogenity in the genus Calanus (Copepoda).]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. 176:222-225, figs. 1-2. (Russian, translation in:Dokl. (Proc.) Acad. Sci. USSS, Biol. Sci. Sect. [details] Available for editors

additional source Brodsky, K.A. (1972). Filogeniya semeistva Calanidae (Copepoda) na osnove sravnitel'no-morfologicheskogo analiza priznakov. [Phylogeny of the fam. Calanidae (Copepoda) on the basis of comparative morphological analysis of its characters. ]. In: Geograficheskaya i Sezonnaya Izmenchivost' Morskogo Planktona (Geographical and Seasonal Variability of Marine Planktonic Organisms.). Issledovaniya Fauny Morei (Explorations of the Fauna of the Seas). 12(20):5-110, figs. 1-123, tabs. 1-21. (Russian.). (1975 English translation 127 pp.). [details] Available for editors

additional source Huntley, M.E. (1988). Feeding biology of Calanus: new perspective. In: Boxshall, G.A. & H.K. Schminke (eds.). Biology of Copepods. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Copepoda. Developments in Hydrobiolology 47, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Hydrobiologia. 47(167/168):83-99, figs. 1-5, tabs. 1-2., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3103-9_8 [details] Available for editors

additional source ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32. [details]

additional source Krøyer, H. (1848). Karcinologiste Bidrag (Forsaettelse). [Carcinologist Contributions (Continued)]. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift Ser. II. 2(5): 527-560. [details]

additional source Mauchline, J. (1988). Taxonomic value of pore pattern in the integument of calanoid copepods (Crustacea). Journal of Zoology, London 214(4):697-749., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1988.tb03768.x [details] Available for editors