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

Gaetanus brachyurus Sars G.O., 1907

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Gaetanus*	Giesbrecht, 1888	accepted genus name
*Gaidius*	Giesbrecht, 1895	synonym

Literature

original description	Sars, G.O. (1907). Notes supplémentaires sur les Calanoïdes de la Princesse-Alice. (Corrections et additions). Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique, Monaco 101:1-27. (30-iv-1907)
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	Grice, G.D. & K. Hulsemann. (1968). Calanoid copepods from midwater trawl collections made in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Pacific Science 22(3):322-335, figs. 1-74. (vii-1968)
additional source	ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32.
additional source	Park, T. (1975). Calanoid copepods of the genera Gaetanus and Gaidius from the Gulf of Mexico. Bulletin of Marine Science 25(1):9-34, figs. 1-11.
additional source	Grice, G.D. & K. Hulsemann. (1967). Bathypelagic calanoid copepods of the western Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 122(3583):1-67, figs. 1-319.
additional source	Suárez-Morales, E., J.W. Fleeger & P.A. Montagna. (2009). Free-living Copepoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. 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. Chapter pagination: 841-869.
additional source	Markhaseva, E.L. (1996). Calanoid copepods of the family Aetideidae of the world ocean. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 268:1-331.
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. Gaetanus brachyurus Sars G.O., 1907. 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:104307