Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Gymnoplea > Order Calanoida > Family Acartiidae > Genus Acartia > Subgenus Acartia (Acanthacartia)

Acartia (Acanthacartia) italica Steuer, 1910

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Acartia*	Dana, 1846	accepted genus name
*Dias*	Lilljeborg, 1853	synonym

Species group names

*Dias italica*	Steuer, 1910	objective synonym
*Acartia italica*	Steuer, 1910	synonym; alternate representation

Literature

original description	Steuer, A. (1910). Plankton-Copepoden aus dem Hafen von Brindisi. [Planktonic copepods from the port of Brindisi.]. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse. 119(1):591-598, figs. 1-6.
additional source	Mordukhai-Boltovskoy, F.D., ed. (1969). Rakoobraznye. (Crustacea). Opredetel' fauny Chernogo i Azovskogo more, 2. Svobodnozhivushchie bespozvonochnye. [Crustacea. Identification key to the fauna of the Black and Azov Seas, 2. Freeliving invertebrates.]. Institut Biologii Yuzh'nykh Morei, Akademiya Nauk USSR, Naukova Dumka, Kiev. 536 pp. (In Russian.).
additional source	Steuer, A. (1923). Bausteine zu einer Monographie der Copepodengattung Acartia. 1. Die Arten der Gattung Acartia Dana. 2. Die Grösse der Hochsee-Acartien in ihrer Abhängigkeit von der Dichte des Meerwassers. Building blocks for a monograph on the copepod genus Acartia. 1. The species of the genus Acartia Dana. 2. The size of the deep-sea Acartias in relation to the density of the sea water. Arbeiten aus dem Zoologischen Institut der Universität Innsbruck. 1(5):91-144 (separate: 1-56), figs. 1-179, pls. 1-5, maps 1-6. [dated 1924].
redescription	Krsinic, F. & G.A. Boxshall. (2024). Redescription of Acartia (Acanthacartia) italica Steuer, 1910 (Copepoda, Calanoida), and description of the developmental stages from the small saline Lake Rogoznica, Adriatic Sea. Zootaxa. 5543(4-5):539 -571. Dec. 2024.
ecology source	Brun, P., M.R. Payne & T. Kiørboe. (2017). A trait database for marine copepods. Earth System Science Data. 9(1):99-113.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Acartia (Acanthacartia) italica Steuer, 1910. 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:345934

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Acartia (Acanthacartia) italica Steuer, 1910. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/c7482b65-01d8-443c-8c7e-45ef77575384