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

Paracalanus parvus (Claus, 1863)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted
Name Status: alternate representation

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Paracalanus*	Boeck, 1865	accepted genus name

Children

Paracalanus parvus parvus (Claus, 1863)

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	Pesta, O. (1928). Krebstiere oder Crustacea. I: Ruderfüsser oder Copepoda (1. Calanoida, 2. Cyclopoida) (3. Ordnung) [Crustaceans or Crustacea. I: Copepods (1. Calanoida, 2. Cyclopoida) (3rd order).]. In: Dahl, F. (ed.). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der Angrenzenden Meeresteile nach Ihren Merkmalen und nach Ihrer Lebensweise. Fischer, Jena. 9:1-136, figs. 1-115.
additional source	Bourne, G.C. (1889). Report on the pelagic Copepoda collected at Plymouth in 1888-89. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, New Series 1:144-152, pls. 11-12. (x-1889)
additional source	Svetlichny, L., J.R. Strickler & U. Obertegger. (2022). Swimming and respiration in cyclopoid copepods Thermocyclops oithonoides and Oithona davisae and calanoid copepod Paracalanus parvus. Journal Of Experimental Zoology Part A- Ecological And Integrative Physiology. 337(6)::835–851. Jul 2022.
additional source	Kasapidis, P., I. Siokou, M. Khelifi-Touhami, M.G. Mazzocchi, M. Matthaiaki, E. Christou, M.L.F. De Puelles, A. Gubanova, I. Di Capua, S. Batziakas & C. Frangoulis. (2018). Revising the taxonomic status and distribution of the Paracalanus parvus species complex (Copepoda, Calanoida) in the Mediterranean and Black Seas through an integrated analysis of morphology and molecular taxonomy. Journal Of Plankton Research. 40(5):595-605.
additional source	ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32.
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additional source	Moreno, V.J., J.E.A. de Moreno & R.R. Brenner. (1979). Lipid composition of Paracalanus parvus. Oceanologica Acta. 2(4):373-378, tabs. 1-3.
additional source	Muxagata, E.M. & J.A. Williams. (2004). The Mesozooplankton of the Solent-Southampton Water system: a photographic guide. Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, U.K. 103 pp.
additional source	Greenwood, J.G. (1976). Calanoid copepods of Moreton Bay (Queensland). I. Families Calanidae, Eucalanidae, and Paracalanidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 87:1-28, figs. 1-8. (30-vi-1976)
additional source	Scott, T. (1898). Paracalanus parvus, Boeck, in the Firth of Clyde. Annals of Scottish Natural History 1898(26):120. (iv-1898)
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	Alameda de la Mora, G. (1980). Sistemática y distribución de los copépodos (Crustacea) del Golfo de Tehuantepec (México). [Sistemática y distribución de los copépodos (Crustacea) del Golfo de Tehuantepec (México).]. Tesis Profesional, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónomo de México, Mexico City. 397 pp. + 126 pls.
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	Brady, G.S. (1899). On the marine Copepoda of New Zealand. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 15(2):31-54, pls. 9-13. (viii-1899).
additional source	Esterly, C.O. (1928). The periodic occurrence of Copepoda in the marine plankton of two successive years at La Jolla, California. Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Technical Series 1:247-345, figs. 1-19. (30-iii-1928)
additional source	Cornils, A. & C. Held. (2014). Evidence of cryptic and pseudocryptic speciation in the Paracalanus parvus species complex (Crustacea, Copepoda, Calanoida). Frontiers In Zoology. 11:1-17. MAR 2 2014.
additional source	Shoaib, F.M. & Q.B. Kazmi. (2021). Pelagic copepods collected by the northern Arabian Sea Naseer Cruise 1. Lambert Academic Publishing, Dodo Books Indian Ocean Ltd. 242 pp.
additional source	Mordukhai-Boltovskoy, F.D., ed. (1969). Rakoobraznye. (Crustacea). Opredetel' fauny Chernogo i Azovskogo more, 2. Svobodnozhivushchie bespozvonochnye. [Crustacea. Identification key to the fauna of the Black and Azov Seas, 2. Freeliving invertebrates.]. Institut Biologii Yuzh'nykh Morei, Akademiya Nauk USSR, Naukova Dumka, Kiev. 536 pp. (In Russian.).
additional source	Arima, D., A. Yamaguchi, Y. Abe, K. Matsuno, R. Saito, H. Asami, H. Shimada & I. Imai (2014). Seasonal changes in body size and oil sac volume of three planktonic copepods, Paracalanus parvus (Claus, 1863), Pseudocalanus newmani Frost, 1989 and Oithona similis Claus, 1866, in a temperate embayment: what controls their seasonality? Crustaceana. 87(3):364-375. 10.1163/15685403-00003287 MAR 2014
additional source	Ramírez, F.C. (1966). Copépodos Calanoidos marinos del área de Mar del Plata con la descripción de Pontella marplatensis n. sp. [Marine Calanoid Copepods from the Mar del Plata area with the description of Pontella marplatensis n. sp.]. Boletín del Instituto de Biologia Marina, Mar del Plata. 11:1-24, pls. 1-7, tab. 1. (viii-1966).
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	Mazzocchi, M.G., G. Zagami, A. Ianora, L. Guglielmo, N. Crescenti & J. Hure. (1995). Copepods. In: Guglielmo, L. & A. Ianora (eds.). Atlas of Marine Zooplankton, Straits of Magellan. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, New York. 279 pp.
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	Vervoort, W. (1962). Report on some Copepoda collected during the Melanesia Expedition of the Osaka Museum of Natural History. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 10(2):393-470, figs. 1-32. (31-xii-1962)
additional source	Bowman, T.E. (1971). The distribution of calanoid copepods off the southeastern United States between Cape Hatteras and southern Florida. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 96:1-58, figs. 1-51. (21-v-1971)
additional source	Paulmier, G. (2014). Copepods Calanoida (Neocopepoda, Gymnoplea) in Normandy and Brittany waters of the English Channel and the Atlantic. Sections of Amphascandria and Isokerandria. Les copepodes Calanoida (Neocopepoda, Gymnoplea) dans les eaux normandes et bretonnes de la Manche et de l'Atlantiques. Sections of Amphascandria and Isokerandria. Bulletin de la Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux. 149, n. ser.42(1):1-22.
additional source	Salinas Cadena, M.E. (2007). Abundancia, distribución y variación temporal de copépodos marinos (Calanoideos, harpacticoideos, cyclopoideos, poecilostomatoideos y monstrilloideos), en aguas costeras de la Bahía de Santa Elena: La Libertad durante octubre 2004/octubre 2005. Tesis de Biología Marina, Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, La Libertad, Ecuador. 261 pp. [In Spanish; English abstract] https://repositorio.upse.edu.ec/handle/46000/829.
additional source	Morales-Ramírez, .A. & Z.J.A. Vargas. (1995). Common species of pelagic copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda) from the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica. Especies comunes de copépodos (C:rustacea: Copepoda) pelágicos del Golfo de Nicoya, Costa Rica. Revista de Biología Tropical. 43(1-3):207-218.
additional source	Shen, C.J. & F.S. Lee. (1963). The estuarine Copepoda of Chiekong and Zaikong Rivers, Kwantung Province, China. Acta Zoologica Sinica 15(4):571-596. (xii-1996, Chinese with English summary).
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additional source	Cho, K.H., W.C. Lee & S. Kim. (2003). Sexual Dimorphism on the Genus Paracalanus (Copepoda: Paracalanidae) in Korean Waters. Proceedings of the Korea Society of Environmental Biology Conference. 2003.11a:116-120.
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.
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additional source	Smith, S.L. (1982). The northwestern Indian Ocean during the monsoons of 1979: distribution, abundance, and feeding of zooplankton. Deep Sea Research, Vol. 29. No. 11A 1331 - 1353.
additional source	Koga, F. (1984). Morphology, ecology, classification and specialization of copepods nauplius. Bulletin of the Nansei Regional Fisheries Research Laboratory 16:95-229, figs. 1-62, tabs. 1-3. (1-1984, Japanese with English summary).
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additional source	Canu, E. (1892). Les Copépodes du Boulonnais. Morphologie, embryologie, taxonomie. [Copepods of Boulogne. Morphology, embryology, taxonomy.]. Travaux du Laboratoire de Zoologie Maritime de Wimereux-Ambleteuse. 6:1-292, figs. 1-20, pls. 1-30.
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additional source	Robinson, J.T. (1948). A hitherto undescribed form of Paracalanid (copepod). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 21(1):99-102. (6-iv-1948)
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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.
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redescription	Kang, Y.S. (1996). Redescription of Paracalanus parvus and P. indicus (Copepoda: Paracalanidae) recorded in the Korean waters. Journal of the Korean Fisheries Society 29(3):409-413. (In Korean.)
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. Paracalanus parvus (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:104685