Copepoda name details
Oncaea conifera Giesbrecht, 1891
149764 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149764)
unaccepted
Species
- Subspecies Oncaea conifera furcula Farran, 1936 accepted as Triconia furcula (Farran, 1936)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Giesbrecht, W. (1891). Elenco dei Copepodi pelagici raccolti dal Tenente di vascello Gaetano Chierchia durante il viaggio della R. Corvetta 'Vettor Pisani' negli anni 1882-1885 e dal Tenente di vascello Francesco Orsini nel Mar Rosso, nel 1884. [List of pelagic copepods collected by Lieutenant Gaetano Chierchia during the voyage of the Royal Corvette 'Vettor Pisani' in the years 1882-1885 and by Lieutenant Francesco Orsini in the Red Sea, in 1884.]. <em>Atti della Reale Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Classe di Scienze Fisiche Matematiche e Naturali Rendiconti.</em> (4)7 sem. 1: 474-482., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44535672 [details] 
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2021). World of Copepods Database. Oncaea conifera Giesbrecht, 1891. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=149764 on 2026-02-16
original description
Giesbrecht, W. (1891). Elenco dei Copepodi pelagici raccolti dal Tenente di vascello Gaetano Chierchia durante il viaggio della R. Corvetta 'Vettor Pisani' negli anni 1882-1885 e dal Tenente di vascello Francesco Orsini nel Mar Rosso, nel 1884. [List of pelagic copepods collected by Lieutenant Gaetano Chierchia during the voyage of the Royal Corvette 'Vettor Pisani' in the years 1882-1885 and by Lieutenant Francesco Orsini in the Red Sea, in 1884.]. <em>Atti della Reale Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Classe di Scienze Fisiche Matematiche e Naturali Rendiconti.</em> (4)7 sem. 1: 474-482., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44535672 [details]
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, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.203698 [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Revis, N. & E.N. Okemwa. (1988). Additional records of species of copepods and their distribution in the coastal and inshore waters of Kenya. <em>Kenya Journal of Sciences, Series B.</em> 9(1-2):123-127. [details]
additional source Razouls, C. (1975). Les Oncaeidae (Copepoda, Cyclopoida) de la région de Banyuls (golfe du Lion). [The Oncaeidae (Copepoda, Cyclopoida) of the Banyuls region (Gulf of Lion).]. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> (A)24(2):235-264, figs. 1-16, tabs. 1-2. (iv-1975) (for 1974). [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 Wu, C.H., J.S. Hwang & J.S. Yang. (2004). Diets of three copepods (Poecilostomatoida) in southern Taiwan Strait. <em>In: Hwang, J.S., J.S. Ho & C.T. Shih, (eds). Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Copepoda, Special Issue: Contemporary Studies on Copepoda, Zoological Studies.</em> 43(2):388-392. [details] Available for editors [request]
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 Paulmier, G. (2009). Les copepodes Cyclopoidea (Genres Oithona, Oncaea, Corycaeus) des eaux neritiques et de la Bretagne et de la Normandie occidentale. [Copepods Cyclopoidea (genus Oithona, Oncaea, Corycaeus) of neritic waters of Brittany and Western Normandy.]. <em>Bulletin de la Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux.</em> 37(2):175-190. (French). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Suárez-Morales, E., J.W. Fleeger & P.A. Montagna. (2009). Free-living Copepoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>In: Felder, D. L. & D.K. Camp [Eds]. Gulf of Mexico: origin, waters, and biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, 1393 pp.</em> Chapter pagination: 841-869. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lee, B.D. (1966). Distribution and abundance of pelagic copepods in the Drake Passage and off the coast of Argentina, with special reference to hydrology of these areas. Ph.D. Thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1-250, pls. 1-56. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Boxshall, G.A. (1977). The planktonic copepods of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean: Some taxonomic observations on the Oncaeidae (Cyclopoida). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology 31(3):103-155, figs. 1-25, tabs. 1-2. (28-iv-1977) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Brady, G.S. (1910). Die marinen Copepoden der Deutschen Südpolar Expedition 1901-1903. I. Über die Copepoden der Stämme Harpacticoida, Cyclopoida, Notodelphyoida und Caligoida. [The marine copepods of the German South Polar Expedition 1901-1903. I. On the copepods of the phyla Harpacticoida, Cyclopoida, Notodelphyoida and Caligoida.]. <em>Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903.</em> 11 (= Zool. 3):497-594, pls. 52-63, figs. 1-59., available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/082336c0 [details]
additional source Heron, G.A. & J.M. Bradford-Grieve. (1995). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida: Oncaeidae. <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir, Wellington.</em> 104:1-57, 30 figs., 4 tables. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Herring, P.J., M.I. Latz, N.J. Bannister & E.A. Widder. (1993). Bioluminescence of the poecilostomatoid copepod Oncaea conifera. Marine Ecology Progress Series 94(3):297-309., available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps094297 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Krishnaswamy, S. (1953). Pelagic Copepoda of the Madras coast. Journal of the Madras University, Series B 23(1):61-75, figs. 1-19. [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 Malt, S.J. (1983). Studies on the taxonomy and ecology of the marine copepod genus Oncaea Philippi. <em>Ph.D. Thesis, Queen Mary College, University of London.</em> 500 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Moulton, T.P. (1973). Principal component analysis of variation in form within Oncaea conifera Giesbrecht, 1891, a species of copepod (Crustacea). Systematic Zoology 22(2):141-156, figs. 1-4, tabs. 1-6., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/2412097 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Mazzocchi, M.G., G. Zagami, A. Ianora, L. Guglielmo, N. Crescenti & J. Hure. (1995). Copepods. <em>In: Guglielmo, L. & A. Ianora (eds.). Atlas of Marine Zooplankton, Straits of Magellan. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, New York.</em> 279 pp., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79139-0 [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]
additional source Scott, A. (1909). The Copepoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part I. Free-swimming, littoral and semi-parasitic Copepoda. <em>Siboga Expeditie, Monograph, Leiden.</em> 29:1-323, pls. 1-69., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2191407#page/11/mode/1up
page(s): 241 [details]
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 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]
source of synonymy Böttger-Schnack, R. (1999). Taxonomy of Oncaeidae (Copepoda, Poecilostomatoida) from the Red Sea. - I. 11 species of Triconia gen. nov. and a redescription of T. similis (Sars) from Norwegian waters. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, Hamburg 96:37-128. (xi.1999) [details] Available for editors [request]
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, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.203698 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Revis, N. & E.N. Okemwa. (1988). Additional records of species of copepods and their distribution in the coastal and inshore waters of Kenya. <em>Kenya Journal of Sciences, Series B.</em> 9(1-2):123-127. [details]
additional source Razouls, C. (1975). Les Oncaeidae (Copepoda, Cyclopoida) de la région de Banyuls (golfe du Lion). [The Oncaeidae (Copepoda, Cyclopoida) of the Banyuls region (Gulf of Lion).]. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> (A)24(2):235-264, figs. 1-16, tabs. 1-2. (iv-1975) (for 1974). [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 Wu, C.H., J.S. Hwang & J.S. Yang. (2004). Diets of three copepods (Poecilostomatoida) in southern Taiwan Strait. <em>In: Hwang, J.S., J.S. Ho & C.T. Shih, (eds). Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Copepoda, Special Issue: Contemporary Studies on Copepoda, Zoological Studies.</em> 43(2):388-392. [details] Available for editors
[request]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 Paulmier, G. (2009). Les copepodes Cyclopoidea (Genres Oithona, Oncaea, Corycaeus) des eaux neritiques et de la Bretagne et de la Normandie occidentale. [Copepods Cyclopoidea (genus Oithona, Oncaea, Corycaeus) of neritic waters of Brittany and Western Normandy.]. <em>Bulletin de la Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux.</em> 37(2):175-190. (French). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Suárez-Morales, E., J.W. Fleeger & P.A. Montagna. (2009). Free-living Copepoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>In: Felder, D. L. & D.K. Camp [Eds]. Gulf of Mexico: origin, waters, and biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, 1393 pp.</em> Chapter pagination: 841-869. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lee, B.D. (1966). Distribution and abundance of pelagic copepods in the Drake Passage and off the coast of Argentina, with special reference to hydrology of these areas. Ph.D. Thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1-250, pls. 1-56. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Boxshall, G.A. (1977). The planktonic copepods of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean: Some taxonomic observations on the Oncaeidae (Cyclopoida). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology 31(3):103-155, figs. 1-25, tabs. 1-2. (28-iv-1977) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Brady, G.S. (1910). Die marinen Copepoden der Deutschen Südpolar Expedition 1901-1903. I. Über die Copepoden der Stämme Harpacticoida, Cyclopoida, Notodelphyoida und Caligoida. [The marine copepods of the German South Polar Expedition 1901-1903. I. On the copepods of the phyla Harpacticoida, Cyclopoida, Notodelphyoida and Caligoida.]. <em>Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903.</em> 11 (= Zool. 3):497-594, pls. 52-63, figs. 1-59., available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/082336c0 [details]
additional source Heron, G.A. & J.M. Bradford-Grieve. (1995). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida: Oncaeidae. <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir, Wellington.</em> 104:1-57, 30 figs., 4 tables. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Herring, P.J., M.I. Latz, N.J. Bannister & E.A. Widder. (1993). Bioluminescence of the poecilostomatoid copepod Oncaea conifera. Marine Ecology Progress Series 94(3):297-309., available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps094297 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Krishnaswamy, S. (1953). Pelagic Copepoda of the Madras coast. Journal of the Madras University, Series B 23(1):61-75, figs. 1-19. [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 Malt, S.J. (1983). Studies on the taxonomy and ecology of the marine copepod genus Oncaea Philippi. <em>Ph.D. Thesis, Queen Mary College, University of London.</em> 500 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Moulton, T.P. (1973). Principal component analysis of variation in form within Oncaea conifera Giesbrecht, 1891, a species of copepod (Crustacea). Systematic Zoology 22(2):141-156, figs. 1-4, tabs. 1-6., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/2412097 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Mazzocchi, M.G., G. Zagami, A. Ianora, L. Guglielmo, N. Crescenti & J. Hure. (1995). Copepods. <em>In: Guglielmo, L. & A. Ianora (eds.). Atlas of Marine Zooplankton, Straits of Magellan. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, New York.</em> 279 pp., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79139-0 [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]
additional source Scott, A. (1909). The Copepoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part I. Free-swimming, littoral and semi-parasitic Copepoda. <em>Siboga Expeditie, Monograph, Leiden.</em> 29:1-323, pls. 1-69., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2191407#page/11/mode/1up
page(s): 241 [details]
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 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]
source of synonymy Böttger-Schnack, R. (1999). Taxonomy of Oncaeidae (Copepoda, Poecilostomatoida) from the Red Sea. - I. 11 species of Triconia gen. nov. and a redescription of T. similis (Sars) from Norwegian waters. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, Hamburg 96:37-128. (xi.1999) [details] Available for editors
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