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

Euchaeta acuta Giesbrecht, 1893

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Euchaeta*	Philippi, 1843	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Paraeuchaeta acuta*	(Giesbrecht, 1893)	synonym

Literature

original description	Giesbrecht, W. (1893). Mittheilungen über Copepoden 1-6. [Communications on Copepods 1-6.]. Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel. 11(1):56-106, pls.5-7. (25-ix-1893).
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	Mazza, J. (1964). Le développement de quelques Copépodes en Méditerranée. I. Les stades d'Euchaeta acuta Giesbrecht et d'E. spinosa Giesbrecht. [The development of some Copepods in the Mediterranean. I. The stages of Euchaeta acuta Giesbrecht and E. spinosa Giesbrecht.]. Revue et Travaux de l'Institut des Pêches Maritimes. 28(3):271-292, figs. 1-19.
additional source	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.
additional source	Crisafi, P. (1965). I Copepodi dello Stretto di Messina. Euchaeta hebes Giesbrecht e notize su E. acuta Giesbrecht ed E. spinosa Giesbrecht. [The Copepods of the Straits of Messina. Euchaeta hebes Giesbrecht and notice on E. acuta Giesbrecht and E. spinosa Giesbrecht.]. Atti della Società Peloritana di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. 11(4):58-68, figs. 1-26.
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	ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.).
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	Park, T. (1993). Taxonomy and distribution of the marine calanoid copepod Family Euchaetidae. Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California Press. 29:1-203, figs.1-91.
additional source	Mazza, J. (1966). Évolution de l'appareil buccal au cours du développement postlarvaire des Aetideidae et des Euchaetidae (Copépodes pélagiques), ses incidences sur le sex-ratio des adultes. [Evolution of the oral apparatus during postlarval development of Aetideidae and Euchaetidae (pelagic copepods), its impact on the sex ratio of adults.]. Vie et Milieu. (A)17:1027-1044, figs. 1-7. (iii-1967).
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. Euchaeta acuta Giesbrecht, 1893. 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:104550