WoRMS taxon details
Temora discaudata Giesbrecht, 1889
220898 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220898)
accepted
Species
Calanus scutellatus Dana, 1849-1852 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Giesbrecht, W. (1889). 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 Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Classe di Scienze Fisiche Matematiche e Naturali Rendiconti.</em> (4)5 sem. 1:811-815; sem. 2:24-29., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/163883#/summary
page(s): 814 [details]
page(s): 814 [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Temora discaudata Giesbrecht, 1889. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220898 on 2025-07-16
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Nomenclature
original description
Giesbrecht, W. (1889). 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 Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Classe di Scienze Fisiche Matematiche e Naturali Rendiconti.</em> (4)5 sem. 1:811-815; sem. 2:24-29., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/163883#/summary
page(s): 814 [details]
original description (of Calanus scutellatus Dana, 1849-1852) Dana, J.D. (1853-1855). Crustacea. Part II. <em>In: United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes. U. S. N., C. Sherman Printer, Philadelphia.</em> 14: 691-1618. [1855, folio atlas pls. 1-96.]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40412910
page(s): 1060 [details]
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]
page(s): 814 [details]
original description (of Calanus scutellatus Dana, 1849-1852) Dana, J.D. (1853-1855). Crustacea. Part II. <em>In: United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes. U. S. N., C. Sherman Printer, Philadelphia.</em> 14: 691-1618. [1855, folio atlas pls. 1-96.]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40412910
page(s): 1060 [details]
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]
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 (HKRMS) Lee, C.N.W. (2002). The ecology of planktonic copepods and hyperbenthic communities in the Cape d'Aguilar Marine Reserve, Hong Kong. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. [details]
context source (Bermuda) Morris, B. F. (1975). The neuston of the Northwest Atlantic . Ph.D. thesis - Dalhousie University. [details]
additional source Pesta, O. (1943). Die Arten Der Copepodengattungen Rhincalanus Dana, Euchaeta Philippi, Centropages Kröyer, Temora Baird und Tortanus Giesbrecht Aus Dem Roten Meer. [The species of the copepod genera Rhincalanus Dana, Euchaeta Philippi, Centropages Kröyer, Temora Baird and Tortanus Giesbrecht from the Red Sea.]. <em>Sitzungsberichte Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse.</em> 1, 152: 7-32, figs. 1-11. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Santander, H., G. Luyo R., S. Carrasco, M. Véliz & O.S. de Castillo. (1981). Catalogo de zooplankton en el mar peruano. Primera Parte: Area Pisco-San Juan. [Catalog of zooplankton in the Peruvian sea. Part One: Pisco-San Juan area.]. <em>Boletín del Instituto del Mar del Perú.</em> 6:1-75, pls. 1-30. (ix-1981). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sewell, R.B.S. (1912). XXIX. Notes on the surface-living Copepoda of the Bay of Bengal, I and II. <em>Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.</em> 7(4):313-382, figs. 1-5, pls. 14-24. (Nov 1912). [details]
additional source Wilson, C.B. (1950). Copepods gathered by the United States Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross' from 1887 to 1909, chiefly in the Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 100(14)(4):i-ix, 141-461, pls. 2-36. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Khalaf, T.A. (1988). Calanoid copepods of Iraqi waters of the Arabian Gulf, systematic account, 1. Calanoida, Families Calanidae through Temoridae. Marina Mesopotamica 3(2):173-207. [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 Al-Yamani, F.Y., V. Skryabin, A. Gubanova, S. Khvorov & I. Prusova. (2011). Marine Zooplankton Practical Guide for the Northwestern Arabian Gulf. Volume 2. <em>Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Safat Kuwait.</em> 196 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Greenwood, J.G. (1978). Calanoid copepods of Moreton Bay (Queensland). III. Families Temoridae to Tortanidae, excluding Pontellidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 89:1-21, figs. 1-9, tab. 1. (1-vi-1978) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Salinas Cadena, M.E. (2007). Abundancia, distribución y variación temporal de copépodos marinos (Calanoideos, harpacticoideos, cyclopoideos, poecilostomatoideos y monstrilloideos), en aguas costeras de la Bahía de Santa Elena: La Libertad durante octubre 2004/octubre 2005. <em>Tesis de Biología Marina, Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, La Libertad, Ecuador.</em> 261 pp. [In Spanish; English abstract] https://repositorio.upse.edu.ec/handle/46000/829. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Shoaib, F.M. & Q.B. Kazmi. (2021). Pelagic copepods collected by the northern Arabian Sea Naseer Cruise 1. <em>Lambert Academic Publishing, Dodo Books Indian Ocean Ltd.</em> 242 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
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): 118 [details]
additional source Ali-Khan, S. & J. Ali-Khan. (2002). Studies on the adults and copepodite stages of Temora discaudata (Copepoda: Calanoida), collected on Meteor cruise 1, 1964/1965 during the International Indian Ocean Expedition. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 34(4): 311-318. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Arcos, F. & A. Fleminger. (1991). Morphological criteria for the separation of the late copepodid stages of Temora stylifera and T. discaudata (Copepoda, Calanoida). Journal of Plankton Research 13(6):1177-1186. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bradford-Grieve, J.M. (1999). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic Calanoid Copepoda: Bathypontiidae, Arietellidae, Augaptilidae, Heterorhabdidae, Lucicutiidae, Metrodinidae, Phyllopodidae, Centropagidae, Pseudodiaptomidae, Temoridae, Candaciidae, Pontellidae, Sulcanidae, Acartiid National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Biodiversity Memoir, Wellington 111:1-268. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Brodsky, K.A. (1962). K faune i raspredeleniyu veslonogikh rachkov Calanoida poverkhnostnykh vod severo-zapadnoi chasti Tikhogo okeana. [On the fauna and distribution of the calanoid copepods from the surface waters of the north-western Pacific Ocean.]. <em>Issledovaniya dal'nevost. Morei SSSR.</em> 8:91-166, figs. 1-60. (Russian). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Furuhashi, K. (1975). [Temora stylifera (Dana) collected from the neighbouring waters of Japan is or not young stage of T. discaudata.]. <em>Bulletin of the Plankton Society of Japan.</em> 21(2):135. (iv-1975, Japanese). [details]
context source (HKRMS) Lee, C.N.W. (2002). The ecology of planktonic copepods and hyperbenthic communities in the Cape d'Aguilar Marine Reserve, Hong Kong. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. [details]
context source (Bermuda) Morris, B. F. (1975). The neuston of the Northwest Atlantic . Ph.D. thesis - Dalhousie University. [details]
additional source Pesta, O. (1943). Die Arten Der Copepodengattungen Rhincalanus Dana, Euchaeta Philippi, Centropages Kröyer, Temora Baird und Tortanus Giesbrecht Aus Dem Roten Meer. [The species of the copepod genera Rhincalanus Dana, Euchaeta Philippi, Centropages Kröyer, Temora Baird and Tortanus Giesbrecht from the Red Sea.]. <em>Sitzungsberichte Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse.</em> 1, 152: 7-32, figs. 1-11. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Santander, H., G. Luyo R., S. Carrasco, M. Véliz & O.S. de Castillo. (1981). Catalogo de zooplankton en el mar peruano. Primera Parte: Area Pisco-San Juan. [Catalog of zooplankton in the Peruvian sea. Part One: Pisco-San Juan area.]. <em>Boletín del Instituto del Mar del Perú.</em> 6:1-75, pls. 1-30. (ix-1981). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sewell, R.B.S. (1912). XXIX. Notes on the surface-living Copepoda of the Bay of Bengal, I and II. <em>Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.</em> 7(4):313-382, figs. 1-5, pls. 14-24. (Nov 1912). [details]
additional source Wilson, C.B. (1950). Copepods gathered by the United States Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross' from 1887 to 1909, chiefly in the Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 100(14)(4):i-ix, 141-461, pls. 2-36. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Khalaf, T.A. (1988). Calanoid copepods of Iraqi waters of the Arabian Gulf, systematic account, 1. Calanoida, Families Calanidae through Temoridae. Marina Mesopotamica 3(2):173-207. [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 Al-Yamani, F.Y., V. Skryabin, A. Gubanova, S. Khvorov & I. Prusova. (2011). Marine Zooplankton Practical Guide for the Northwestern Arabian Gulf. Volume 2. <em>Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Safat Kuwait.</em> 196 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Greenwood, J.G. (1978). Calanoid copepods of Moreton Bay (Queensland). III. Families Temoridae to Tortanidae, excluding Pontellidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 89:1-21, figs. 1-9, tab. 1. (1-vi-1978) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Salinas Cadena, M.E. (2007). Abundancia, distribución y variación temporal de copépodos marinos (Calanoideos, harpacticoideos, cyclopoideos, poecilostomatoideos y monstrilloideos), en aguas costeras de la Bahía de Santa Elena: La Libertad durante octubre 2004/octubre 2005. <em>Tesis de Biología Marina, Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, La Libertad, Ecuador.</em> 261 pp. [In Spanish; English abstract] https://repositorio.upse.edu.ec/handle/46000/829. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Shoaib, F.M. & Q.B. Kazmi. (2021). Pelagic copepods collected by the northern Arabian Sea Naseer Cruise 1. <em>Lambert Academic Publishing, Dodo Books Indian Ocean Ltd.</em> 242 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]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): 118 [details]
additional source Ali-Khan, S. & J. Ali-Khan. (2002). Studies on the adults and copepodite stages of Temora discaudata (Copepoda: Calanoida), collected on Meteor cruise 1, 1964/1965 during the International Indian Ocean Expedition. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 34(4): 311-318. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Arcos, F. & A. Fleminger. (1991). Morphological criteria for the separation of the late copepodid stages of Temora stylifera and T. discaudata (Copepoda, Calanoida). Journal of Plankton Research 13(6):1177-1186. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bradford-Grieve, J.M. (1999). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic Calanoid Copepoda: Bathypontiidae, Arietellidae, Augaptilidae, Heterorhabdidae, Lucicutiidae, Metrodinidae, Phyllopodidae, Centropagidae, Pseudodiaptomidae, Temoridae, Candaciidae, Pontellidae, Sulcanidae, Acartiid National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Biodiversity Memoir, Wellington 111:1-268. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Brodsky, K.A. (1962). K faune i raspredeleniyu veslonogikh rachkov Calanoida poverkhnostnykh vod severo-zapadnoi chasti Tikhogo okeana. [On the fauna and distribution of the calanoid copepods from the surface waters of the north-western Pacific Ocean.]. <em>Issledovaniya dal'nevost. Morei SSSR.</em> 8:91-166, figs. 1-60. (Russian). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Furuhashi, K. (1975). [Temora stylifera (Dana) collected from the neighbouring waters of Japan is or not young stage of T. discaudata.]. <em>Bulletin of the Plankton Society of Japan.</em> 21(2):135. (iv-1975, Japanese). [details]
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 (40 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (34 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Temora discaudata)
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 10 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (41 records)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (40 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (34 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Temora discaudata)
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 10 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (41 records)
To ITIS