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

Metridia longa (Lubbock, 1854)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Metridia*	Boeck, 1865	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Calanus longus*	Lubbock, 1854	synonym

Literature

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	Sars, G.O. (1902). Copepoda Calanoida, Parts IX & X, Temoridae, Metridiidae, Heterorhabdidae. An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum. 4: 97-120, pls. 65-80.
additional source	Scott, T. (1899). Report on the marine and freshwater Crustacea from Franz-Josef Land, collected by Mr. William S. Bruce, of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology. 27:60-126, pls. 3-9. (1-vii-1899).
additional source	Wilson, C.B. (1932). The copepods of the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 158:1-635, figs. 1-316, pls. 1-41.
additional source	Ershova, E.A. & K.N. Kosobokova. (2012). Morphology of genital system and reproductive biology of the arctic calanoid copepod Metridia longa. Biology Bulletin. 39(8): 676–683. (English), Zoologischeskii Zhurnal 91(2):138-147. (Russian).
additional source	Lapota, D., T.E. Bowman & J.R. Losee. (1988). Observations on bioluminescence in the nauplius of Metridia longa (Copepoda, Calanoida) in the Norwegian Sea. Crustaceana, Leiden 54(3):314-320, fig. 1, tab. 1. (v.1988)
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32.
additional source	Roff, J.C. (1978). A guide to the marine flora and fauna of the Bay of Fundy: Copepoda: Calanoida. Fisheries and Marine Service Technical Report 823. 27 p.
additional source	Lightfoot, M. (2023). Light sensitivity of the Arctic copepod Metridia longa during Midnight Sun and Polar Night. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA. 67 pp.
additional source	Ershova, E.A. & K.N. Kosobokova. (2012). Morphology of genital system and reproductive biology of the arctic calanoid copepod Metridia longa. ОСОБЕННОСТИ МОРФОЛОГИИ ГЕНИТАЛЬНОЙ СИСТЕМЫ И БИОЛОГИИ РАЗМНОЖЕНИЯ АРКТИЧЕСКОЙ КАЛЯНОИДНОЙ КОПЕПОДЫ METRIDIA LONGA. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 91(2):138-147. (Russian).
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	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.
additional source	Arcos, D.F. (1975). Copépodes calanoídeos de la Bahía de Concepción, Chile. Conocimiento sistemático y variación estacional. [Calanoid Copepods of the Concepcion Bay, Chile, Systematic study and seasonal variation.]. Gayana, Zoología. 32:3-31, figs. 1-7, pls. 1-9 with figs. 1-78, map.
additional source	Haq, S.M. (1967). Nutritional physiology of Metridia lucens and M. longa from the Gulf of Maine. Limnology and Oceanography. 12(1):40-51, figs. 1-3, tabs. 1-5. (i-1967).
additional source	Schmid, M. (2017). The race for lipids : ontogeny of the fine-scale vertical co-distribution of arctic calanoid copepods and their phytoplankton food as elucidated by artificial intelligence coupled with an imaging profiler. Thèse de Doctorat, Université Laval, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 131 pp.
additional source	Linko, A.K. (1907). Untersuchungen über das Plankton des Barents Meeres. [Investigations on the plankton of the Barents Sea.]. Wissenschaftlich praktische Murman Expedition, St. Petersburg. :1-247, figs.1-21.
additional source	Stepanyuk, G.A., H. Xu, C.K. Wu, S.V. Markova, J. Lee, E.S. Vysotski & B.C. Wang. (2008). Expression, purification and characterization of the secreted luciferase of the copepod Metridia longa from Sf9 insect cells. Protein Expression and Purification. 61(2):142-148.
additional source	Yurikova D.A., K.N. Kosobokova & A.V. Savchenko. (2023). Investigation of the reproductive system in calanoid copepods: A new approach using 3D reconstructions from serial semi-thin crosssections in Calanus glacialis and Metridia longa. Arthropod Structure & Development. 73(12-14):1-9. 101249.
additional source	Geiger, S.R. (1966). Size variation in Metridia longa (Lubbock). In: Barnes, H. (ed.). Some contemporary studies in marine science. Allen & Unwin Ltd., New York :335-341, figs. 1-2, tab. 1.
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. Metridia longa (Lubbock, 1854). 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:104632