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

Candacia curta (Dana, 1849-1852)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Candacia*	Dana, 1846	accepted genus name
*Candace*	Dana, 1849-1852	synonym
*Paracandacia*	Grice, 1963	synonym

Species group names

*Candace curta*	Dana, 1849-1852	synonym

Literature

original description	Scott, A. (1909). The Copepoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part I. Free-swimming, littoral and semi-parasitic Copepoda. Siboga Expeditie, Monograph, Leiden. 29:1-323, pls. 1-69.
basis of record	Dana, J.D. (1849-1852). Conspectus crustaceorum, quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes, e classe Reipublicae foederatae duce, lexit et descripsit Jacobus D. Dana. Pars II. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2: 9-61. [Vol. II,. from May 1848-May 1852]. no figures or plates just verbal.
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	Gómez-Caballero, I.O. (1982). Los copépodos planctónicos del mar peruano. [The planktonic copepods of Peruvian seas.] Boletín de Lima 23:53-70. [In Spanish.]
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
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. Tesis de Biología Marina, Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, La Libertad, Ecuador. 261 pp. [In Spanish; English abstract] https://repositorio.upse.edu.ec/handle/46000/829.
additional source	Mulyadi. (2004). Calanoid copepods in Indonesian waters. The pelagic calanoid copeods of the families Acartiidae, Aetideidae, Augaptilidae, Calanidae, Calocalnidae, Candaciidea, Centropagidae, Clausocalanidae, Eucalanidae, Euchaetidae, Heterorhabdidae, Pseudodiaptomidae, Scolecithridae, and Tortanidae in Indonesian waters. Research Center for Biology, Indonesia Institute of Sciences, Bogor, Indonesia. 193 pp. Jan 2004.
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	Vervoort, W. (1965). Pelagic Copepoda. Part II. Copepoda Calanoida of the families Phaennidae up to and including Acartiidae, containing the description of a new species of Aetideidae. Atlantide Report, Danish Expedition to Coasts of Tropical West Africa 1945-1946 8:9-216.
additional source	Alameda de la Mora, G. (1980). Sistemática y distribución de los copépodos (Crustacea) del Golfo de Tehuantepec (México). [Sistemática y distribución de los copépodos (Crustacea) del Golfo de Tehuantepec (México).]. Tesis Profesional, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónomo de México, Mexico City. 397 pp. + 126 pls.
additional source	Brodsky, K.A. (1962). K faune i raspredeleniyu veslonogikh rachkov Calanoida poverkhnostnykh vod severo-zapadnoi chasti Tikhogo okeana. [On the fauna and distribution of the calanoid copepods from the surface waters of the north-western Pacific Ocean.]. Issledovaniya dal'nevost. Morei SSSR. 8:91-166, figs. 1-60. (Russian).
additional source	Lee, B.D. (1966). Distribution and abundance of pelagic copepods in the Drake Passage and off the coast of Argentina, with special reference to hydrology of these areas. Ph.D. Thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1-250, pls. 1-56.
additional source	Chiba, T. (1956). Studies on the development and the systematics of Copepoda. Journal of the Shimonoseki College of Fisheries 6(1):1-90. (xi-1956). (In Japanese, English summary.)
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. Candacia curta (Dana, 1849-1852). 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:104476