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Calanopia americana Dahl F., 1894

104723 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104723)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Arthropoda
  4. Crustacea
  5. Multicrustacea
  6. Copepoda
  7. Neocopepoda
  8. Gymnoplea
  9. Calanoida
  10. Pontellidae
  11. Calanopia
  12. Calanopia americana
accepted
Species
Calanopia Dana, 1852-1853
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Dahl, F. (1894). Die Copepodenfauna des unteren Amazonas. Berichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Freiburg i.B. 8:10-23, pl. 1. [details] OpenAccess publication
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Calanopia americana Dahl F., 1894. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104723 on 2026-06-26
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Calanopia americana Dahl F., 1894. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=104723 on 2026-06-26
Date
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by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Boxshall, Geoff
2008-08-06 13:32:15Z
changed
Walter, T. Chad

original description Dahl, F. (1894). Die Copepodenfauna des unteren Amazonas. Berichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Freiburg i.B. 8:10-23, pl. 1. [details] OpenAccess publication

context source (Bermuda) Deevey, G.B. & A.L. Brooks. (1977). Copepods of the Sargasso Sea off Bermuda: species composition, and vertical and seasonal distribution between the surface and 2000 m. Bulletin of Marine Science 27(2):256-291, figs. 1-14, tabs. 1-7. (iv-1977) [details] Available for editors  PDF available

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

additional source Cohen, J.H. (2004). Visual sensitivity and diel vertical migration of the marine copepod Calanopia americana. Ph.D. Thesis, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A. 282 pp. [details] 

additional source Cohen, J.H. & R.B. Forward, Jr. (2005). Photobehavior as an inducible defense in the marine copepod Calanopia americana. Limnology and Oceanography 50(4):1269-1277., available online at https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2005.50.4.1269 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Cohen, J.H. & R.B. Forward, Jr. (2005). Diel vertical migration in the marine copepod Calanopia americana. I. Twilight DVM and its relationship to the diel light cycle. <em>Marine Biology.</em> 147(2):387-398., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-005-1569-x [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Cohen, J.H. & R.B. Forward, Jr. (2005). Diel vertical migration in the marine copepod Calanopia americana. II. Proximate role of exogenous light cues and endogenous rhythms. <em>Marine Biology.</em> 147(2):399-410., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-005-1570-4 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source González, J.G. & T.E. Bowman. (1965). Planktonic copepods from Bahía Fosforescente, Puerto Rico, and adjacent waters. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 117(3513):241-303. (24-viii-1965), available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.117-3513.241 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Scott, T. (1912). The Entomostraca of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1904. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.</em> 48(3):521-599, figs. 1-4, pls. 1-14. (15-xi-1912)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41769653 [details] OpenAccess publication

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  PDF available

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): 181 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Pessoa, V.T., P.A.M.C. Melo, Melo Júnior, M. & S. Neumann-Leitão. (2014). Population dynamics of Calanopia americana Dahl F., 1894 (Copepoda, Calanoida) in a reef environment in tropical Brazil. Tropical Oceanography, 42(1):24-32., available online at https://doi.org/10.5914/tropocean.v42i1.5783 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

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. [Abundance, distribution and temporal variation of marine copepods (Calanoids, Harpacticoids, Cyclopoids, Poecilostomatoids and Monstrelloids) in coastal waters of Santa Elena Bay: La Libertad during October 2004/October 2005.]. <em>Tesis de Biología Marina, Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, La Libertad, Ecuador.</em> 261 pp. [In Spanish; English abstract]., available online at https://repositorio.upse.edu.ec/handle/46000/829 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

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  PDF available
 
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Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls/OOB/UPMC/CNRS)  Note: Including taxonomic identification plates, remarks, geographic distribution, ecological information & reference list 
To Barcode of Life 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Calanopia americana) 
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins) 
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To PESI 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (31 records) 
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