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 bispinosa Claus, 1863

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 bispinosa*	Claus, 1863	synonym
*Paracandacia bispinosa*	(Claus, 1863)	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	Okemwa, E.N. & N. Revis. (1986). Planktonic copepods from coastal and inshore waters of Tudor Creek, Mombasa. Kenya Journal of Sciences, Series B, Biological Sciences. (B)7(2):27-34, figs. 1-2, tab. 1.
additional source	Claus, C. (1866). Die Copepoden-Fauna von Nizza. Ein Beitrag zur Charakteristik der Formen und deren Abanderungen 'im Sinne Darwin's'. [The Copepod Fauna of Nice. A Contribution to the Characteristics of the Forms and their Variations 'in the Sense of Darwin']. Schriften der Gesellschaft zur Beforderung der Gesammten Naturwissenschaften zu Marburg. Supplemment 1: 1-34. Pls. 1-5.
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.
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 bispinosa Claus, 1863. 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:220915