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

Pseudocalanus major Sars G.O., 1900

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: unresolved
Name Status: species inquirenda

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pseudocalanus*	Boeck, 1873	accepted genus name
*Clausia*	Boeck, 1865	synonym
*Lucullus*	Giesbrecht, 1881	synonym

Literature

original description	Sars, G.O. (1900). Crustacea. In: Nansen, F. (ed.). The Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893-1896., Scientific Results. 1(5): 1-141, Plates 1-36.
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	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Frost, B.W. (1989). A taxonomy of the marine calanoid copepod genus Pseudocalanus. Canadian Journal of Zoology 67(3):525-551. (French summary.)
additional source	Copepod database, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Pseudocalanus major Sars G.O., 1900. 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:104516