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

Eurytemora americana Williams, 1906

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Eurytemora*	Giesbrecht, 1881	accepted genus name
*Temorella*	Claus, 1881	synonym

Literature

original description	Williams, L.W. (1906). Notes on marine Copepoda of Rhode Island. American Naturalist. 40(477):639-660, figs.1-23.
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	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	Heron, G.A. (1964). Seven species of Eurytemora (Copepoda) from northwestern North America. Crustaceana, Leiden 7(3):199-211, figs. 1-26. (7-ix-1964)
additional source	Lowndes, A.G. (1932). Eurytemora americana L.W. Williams: a new European record. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:541-549, figs. 1-11. (xii-1932)
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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	Palmer, P. (1975). Bijdrage tot de studie van mariene Calanoïda: E. americana met dauereier in de Spuikom te Oostende. [Contribution to the study on marine Calanoida: E. americana with resting eggs in the Sluice Dock, Oostende.]. B.Sc. Thesis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. 100 pp.
additional source	Grice, G.D. (1971). The developmental stages of Eurytemora americana Williams, 1906, and Eurytemora herdmani Thompson & Scott, 1897 (Copepoda, Calanoida). Crustaceana, Leiden 20(2):145-158, figs. 1-153. (23-iii-1971)
additional source	Hoffmeyer, M.S., B.W. Frost & M.B. Castro. (2000). Eurytemora americana Williams, 1906, not Eurytemora affinis (Poppe, 1880), inhabits the Bahía Blanca estuary, Argentina. Scientia Marina 64(1):111-113. (iii.2000)
additional source	Kos, M.S. (1977). Vidy roda Eurytemora (Copepoda, Calanoida) severnoi chasti Tikhogo Okeana: sistematika rasprostranenie izmenchivost'. [Species of the genus Eurytemora (Copepoda, Calanoida) in northern part of the Pacific Ocean: systematics, distribution, variability.]. In: Brodsky, K.A. & N.V. Vyshkvartzeva (eds.). Morskoi Planktona (Sistematika i Faunistika). Marine Plankton (Systematics and Faunistics). Issledovaniya Fauny Morei. 20(28):20-53, figs. 1-26. (25-iv-1977, Russian with English summary).
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.
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. Eurytemora americana Williams, 1906. 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:104873

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Eurytemora americana Williams, 1906. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/2de6fb47-6146-4ee6-971c-04bc16a51e08