Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Gymnoplea > Order Calanoida > Family Clausocalanidae

Pseudocalanus Boeck, 1873

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Clausia*	Boeck, 1865	synonym
*Lucullus*	Giesbrecht, 1881	synonym

Children

Pseudocalanus acuspes (Giesbrecht, 1881)
Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865)
Pseudocalanus major Sars G.O., 1900
Pseudocalanus minutus (Krøyer, 1845)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: プセウドカラヌス属

Literature

original description	Boeck, A. (1873). Nye Slaegter og Arter af Saltvands-Copepoder. [New Genera and Species of Saltwater Copepods. Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania. 1872:35-60. [meddelt i modet den: announced in the fashion for 1872].
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
additional source	Robins, J.H. & I.A. McLaren. (1982). Unusual variations in nuclear DNA contents in the marine copepod Pseudocalanus. Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology. 24(5):529-540, figs. 1-5, tabs. 1-2. (French summary).
additional source	ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32.
additional source	Corkett, C.J. & I.A. McLaren. (1978). The biology of Pseudocalanus. Advances in Marine Biology 15:1-231, figs. 1-42, tabs. 1-28.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	McLaren, I.A. (1965). Some relationships between temperature and egg size, body size, development rate and fecundity, of the copepod Pseudocalanus. Limnology and Oceanography 10(4):528-538.
additional source	Woods, S.M. (1969). Polyteny and size variation in the copepod, Pseudocalanus, from two semi-landlocked fjords in Baffin Island. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 26:543-556.
additional source	Aarbakke, O.N.S. (2013). Pseudocalanus (Copepoda: Calanoida) of the North Atlantic Ocean : species composition, environmental preferences and phylogeography. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway (UIT), Tromsø, Norway. 34 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Pseudocalanus Boeck, 1873. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104165