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

Calocalanus tenuis Farran, 1926

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Calocalanus*	Giesbrecht, 1888	accepted genus name
*Ischnocalanus*	Bernard, 1963	synonym

Species group names

*Ischnocalanus tenuis*	(Farran, 1926)	synonym
*Mecynocera tenuis*	(Farran, 1926)	synonym

Literature

original description	Farran, G.P. (1926). Biscayan plankton collected during a cruise of H.M.S. 'Research', 1900. Part XIV. The Copepoda. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology 36(243):219-310, figs. 1-2, pls. 5-10, tabs. 1-2.
basis of record	Mazzocchi, M.G. (2006). Crustacea Maxillopoda Copepodi planctonici marini: Calanoida, Cyclopoida, Harpacticoida, Mormonilloida, Poecilostomatoida, Siphonostomatoida. Stoch, F. (ed.) Revisione della Checklist della fauna marina italiana. onlilne checklist.
additional source	Corral-Estrada, J. (1970). Nota sobre la presencia en el Atlantico de dos especies recientes de Calocalanus (Copepoda, Calanoida). [Note on the presence in the Atlantic of two recent species of Calocalanus (Copepoda, Calanoida).]. Vieraea: Folia Scientarum Biologicarum Canariensium. 1:12-20, pls. 1-3.
additional source	Brenning, U. (1982). Beiträge zur Calanoidenfauna (Crustacea, Copepoda) vor Nordwest- und Südwestafrika. III. Die Vertreter der Familien Paracalanidae und Calocalanidae. [Contributions to the Calanoid Fauna (Crustacea, Copepoda) off Northwest and Southwest Africa. III. Representatives of the Families Paracalanidae and Calocalanidae.]. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Wilhelm-Pieck-Universität, Rostock, 31, Mathematische-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe (6) (= Meeresbiol. Beiträge Sektion Biologie. (6) (= Meeresbiol. Beiträge Sektion Biologie, 10):1-9, figs. 1-10, tabs. 1-6.
additional source	Park, T. (1968). Calanoid Copepods from the Central North Pacific Ocean. Fishery Bulletin, United States National Marine Fisheries Service 66(3): 527-572, pls. 1-13. (III-1968).
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.).
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. Calocalanus tenuis Farran, 1926. 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:237966