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

Calocalanus Giesbrecht, 1888

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ischnocalanus*	Bernard, 1963	synonym

Children

Calocalanus adriaticus Shmeleva, 1965
Calocalanus africanus Shmeleva, 1979
Calocalanus alboranus Shmeleva, 1979
Calocalanus atlanticus Shmeleva, 1975
Calocalanus contractus Farran, 1926
Calocalanus elegans Shmeleva, 1965
Calocalanus elongatus Shmeleva, 1968
Calocalanus equalicauda (Bernard, 1958)
Calocalanus fusiformis Shmeleva, 1978
Calocalanus gresei Shmeleva, 1973
Calocalanus indicus Shmeleva, 1974
Calocalanus kristalli Shmeleva, 1968
Calocalanus latus Shmeleva, 1968
Calocalanus lomonosovi Shmeleva, 1975
Calocalanus longisetosus Shmeleva, 1965
Calocalanus longispinus Shmeleva, 1978
Calocalanus minor Shmeleva, 1980
Calocalanus namibiensis Andronov, 1973
Calocalanus neptunus Shmeleva, 1965
Calocalanus omaniensis Shmeleva, 1975
Calocalanus ovalis Shmeleva, 1965
Calocalanus paracontractus Shmeleva, 1974
Calocalanus parelongatus Shmeleva, 1979
Calocalanus pavo (Dana, 1849-1852)
Calocalanus pavoninus Farran, 1936
Calocalanus plumatus Shmeleva, 1965
Calocalanus plumulosus (Claus, 1863)
Calocalanus pseudocontractus Bernard, 1958
Calocalanus styliremis Giesbrecht, 1888
Calocalanus tenuiculus Andronov, 1973
Calocalanus tenuis Farran, 1926
Calocalanus vivesei Shmeleva, 1979

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: カロカラヌス属

Literature

original description	Giesbrecht, W. (1888). 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.]. Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Classe di Scienze Fisiche Matematiche e Naturali Rendiconti. (4)4 sem. 2:284-287, 330-338.
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	ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32.
additional source	Shmeleva, A.A. (1981). Rod Calocalanus v Sredizemnom more. [Calanoid copepods of the genera Calocalanus from the Mediterranean Sea.]. Journees d'Etudes sur la Systematique Evolutive et la Biogeographie en Mediterranee. 1980:57.
additional source	Shmeleva, A.A. (1973). Novyi vidi neizvestnye ranee samtsy Calocalanus (Copepoda, Calanoida) iz Adriaticheskogo morya. [A new species and previously unknown males of Calocalanus (Copepoda, Calanoida) from the Adriatic Sea.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 52(11):1721-1725, figs. 1-3. (2-xi-1973, Russian with English summary).

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Calocalanus Giesbrecht, 1888. 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:104193