World Register of Deep-Sea species - Megacalanus Wolfenden, 1904

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Megacalanus Wolfenden, 1904

Megacalanus longicornis

AphiaID

104187 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104187)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Megacalanus princeps princeps Wolfenden, 1904 (type by original designation)

Parent

Megacalanidae Sewell, 1947

Original name

Megacalanus Wolfenden, 1904

Synonymised names

Macrocalanus Sars G.O., 1905 · unaccepted (synonym)

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Species Megacalanus ericae Bradford-Grieve, Blanco-Bercial & Boxshall, 2017
Species Megacalanus frosti Bradford-Grieve, Blanco-Bercial & Boxshall, 2017
Species Megacalanus ohmani Bradford-Grieve, Blanco-Bercial & Boxshall, 2017
Species Megacalanus bradyi Wolfenden, 1905 accepted as Bathycalanus bradyi (Wolfenden, 1905)
Species Megacalanus gracilis (Dana, 1852) accepted as Neocalanus gracilis (Dana, 1849-1852)
Species Megacalanus longicornis (Sars G.O., 1905) accepted as Megacalanus princeps Wolfenden, 1904 represented as Megacalanus princeps princeps Wolfenden, 1904 (synonym according to Bradford-Grieve, 1994)
Species Megacalanus robustior (Giesbrecht, 1888) accepted as Neocalanus robustior (Giesbrecht, 1888)
Species Megacalanus sarsi Farran, 1939 accepted as Bradycalanus typicus Scott A., 1909
Species Megacalanus typicus (Scott A., 1909) accepted as Bradycalanus typicus Scott A., 1909
Species Megacalanus princeps Wolfenden, 1904 represented as Megacalanus princeps princeps Wolfenden, 1904

Environment

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

Original description

Wolfenden, R.N. (1904). Notes on the Copepoda of the North Atlantic Sea and the Faröe Channel. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom n. ser. 7:110-146, fig. 1, pl. 9. (iv-1904) [details]

Taxonomic citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Megacalanus Wolfenden, 1904. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104187 on 2025-05-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Boxshall, Geoff

2015-07-13 11:03:02Z

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Walter, T. Chad

2024-07-20 11:28:56Z

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Walter, T. Chad

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Nomenclature

original description Wolfenden, R.N. (1904). Notes on the Copepoda of the North Atlantic Sea and the Faröe Channel. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom n. ser. 7:110-146, fig. 1, pl. 9. (iv-1904) [details]

original description (of Macrocalanus Sars G.O., 1905) Sars, G.O. (1905). Liste préliminaire des Calanoides recueillis pendant les campagnes de S.A.S. le Prince Albert de Monaco, avec diagnoses des genres et des espéces nouvelles. (1 re partie). [Preliminary list of Calanoides collected during the campaigns of H.S.H. Prince Albert of Monaco, with diagnoses of the genera and new species. (Part 1).]. Bulletin du Musée Océanographique de Monaco. 26:1-22. (20-iii-1905).
page(s): 7 [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]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Bradford-Grieve, J.M., L. Blanco-Bercial & G.A. Boxshall. (2017). Revision of Family Megacalanidae (Copepoda: Calanoida). Zootaxa. 4229(1):1-183., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4229.1.1 [details] Available for editors

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Other

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. [details] Available for editors

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