Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Canuelloida > Family Canuellidae > Genus Canuella

Canuella furcigera Sars G.O., 1903

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Canuella*	Scott T. & Scott A., 1893	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Sars, G.O. (1903). Copepoda Harpacticoida. Parts I & II, Misophriidae, Longipediidae, Cerviniidae, Ectinosomidae (part). An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum. 5:1-28, pls. 1-16.
basis of record	Huys, R. (2001). Copepoda - Harpacticoida. In: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds.) 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. 50:268-280.
additional source	Apostolov, A. (1973). Sur divers Harpacticoïdes (Copépodes) de la mer Noire. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 190(1-2):88-110, figs. 1-22. (i/ii-1973).
additional source	Sewell, R.B.S. (1940). Copepoda, Harpacticoida. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition. 7(2):119-382, figs. 1-88, l chart. (9-iii-1940).
additional source	Sewell, R.B.S. (1924). Crustacea Copepoda: Fauna of Chilka Lake. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 5(12):771-851, pls. 44-59. (vii-1924).
additional source	Lang, K. (1936). Die während der schwedischen Expedition nach Spitzbergen 1898 und nach Grönland 1899 eingesammelten Harpacticiden. [The harpacticids collected during the Swedish expedition to Spitsbergen in 1898 and to Greenland in 1899.]. Kungliga Svenska Vetensk-Akademiens Handlingar. (3)15(4):1-55, figs. 1-117. (20-iii-1936).
additional source	Apostolov, A. & T.M. Marinov. (1988). Copepoda Harpacticoida (morski kharpaktikoidi). Copepoda, Harpacticoida (marine harpacticoids). Fauna Bulgarica, Fauna Bolgarii. Izd. B'lg. Akad. Nauk, in Aedibus Academiae Scientiarum Bulgaricae, Sofia. Scient. Bulgaricae, Sofia. 18:1-384. (Bulgarian.).
additional source	Lang, K. (1948). Monographie der Harpacticiden. Vol. 1 [Monographs of the Harpacticites. Vol. 1]. Hakan Ohlsson's Boktryckeri, Lund; reprinted Nordiska Bokhandeln, Stockholm. 1:1-896, figs. 1-361. (reprinted 1976).
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	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	Por, F.D. (1960). Littorale Harpacticoiden der Nordwest-Kusten des Schwarzen Meeres. [Littoral Harpacticoida of the northwest coast of the Black Sea.]. Travaux du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Grigore Antipa. 2:97-143, figs. 1-17.
redescription	Glatzel, T. (1988). The genital fields of Canuella perplexa and C. furcigera (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) - Comparative morphology and functional aspects. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 58(1):105-113.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Canuella furcigera Sars G.O., 1903. 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:115722

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Canuella furcigera Sars G.O., 1903. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/70f38752-9324-4607-9747-c5f2a8b977a7