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

Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pseudocalanus*	Boeck, 1873	accepted genus name
*Clausia*	Boeck, 1865	synonym
*Lucullus*	Giesbrecht, 1881	synonym

Species group names

*Clausia elongata*	Boeck, 1865	synonym
*Pseudocalanus minutus elongatus*	(Boeck, 1865)	synonym; alternate representation

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	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	Corkett, C.J. & I.A. McLaren. (1969). Egg production and oil storage by the copepod Pseudocalanus in the laboratory. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 3(1):90-105, figs. 1-6, tab. 1. (i-1969)
additional source	Maximenkov, V.V. (1982). Abundance dynamics of Pseudocalanus elongatus Boek. in the Gulf of Korf (the Bering Sea). Izvestiya Tikhookeanskogo Nauchno-Issledovatel'skogo Instituta Rybnogo Khozyaistva i Okeanografii (TINRO) 106:119-122.
additional source	Karavaev, V.A. (1895). Materialy k' faune veslonogikh (Copepoda) Chernago morya. [Materials on fauna of Copepoda of the Black Sea.]. Zapiski Kiyevskago Obshchestva Estestvoispytatelei (Mémoires de la Société des Naturalistes de Kiev). 14(1):117-174, pls. 1-3. (1895) (Russian with French summary).
additional source	Vives, F., V. Rodriguez & J. Rodriguez. (1980). Présence de Pseudocalanus elongatus Boeck (Copepoda, Calanoida) en Mer d'Alboran. [Presence of Pseudocalanus elongatus Boeck (Copepoda, Calanoida) in Mer d'Alboran.]. In: XXVII. Congr. Assemblée plén., Réun. interdisciplinair. :1-4, figs. 1-7. (Mimeogr.).
additional source	Lee, J.W. & D.I. Williamson. (1975). The vertical distribution and diurnal migration of copepods at different stations in the Irish Sea. I. Pseudocalanus elongatus (Boeck) and Microcalanus pusillus G.O. Sars. Journal of the Oceanographical Society of Japan 31(5):199-211, figs. 1-6. (x-1975)
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	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	Porumb, F.I. (1968). Contribution à la connaissance des migrations verticales nycthémérales de quelques Copépodes de la mer Noire (Pseudocalanus elongatus, Centropages kröyeri et Acartia clausi) pendant l'été. [Contribution to the knowledge of the nycthemeral vertical migrations of some Black Sea Copepods (Pseudocalanus elongatus, Centropages kröyeri and Acartia clausi) during the summer.]. Rapports et Procès-Verbaux des Réunions de la Commission Internationale pour l'Exploration Scientifique de la Mer Mediterranée, Monaco. 19(3): 509-511.
additional source	Prygunkova, R.V. (1982). On the possibility for prognosis of Pseudocalanus elongatus Boeck numbers in White Sea. Issledovaniya Fauny Morei 27(35):72-83.
additional source	Frost, B.W. (1989). A taxonomy of the marine calanoid copepod genus Pseudocalanus. Canadian Journal of Zoology 67(3):525-551. (French summary.)
additional source	Ferrari, F.D. & A. Benforado. (1998). Setation and setal groups on antenna 1 of Ridgewayia klausreutzleri, Pleuromamma xiphias, and Pseudocalanus elongatus (Crustacea: Copepoda: Calanoida) during the copepodid phase of their development. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 111(1):209-221. (6.iv.1998)
additional source	Streftaris, N., A. Zenetos & E. Papathanassiou. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogry and Marine Biology: an Annual Review. 43: 419-453.
additional source	Urry, D.L. (1965). Observations on the relationship between the food and survival of Pseudocalanus elongatus in the laboratory. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 45:49-58, fig. 1, tabs. 1-7. (9-iv-1965)
additional source	Thompson, B.M. (1982). Growth and development of Pseudocalanus elongatus and Calanus sp. in the laboratory. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 62(2):359-372, figs. 1-4, tabs. 1-8. (1-v-1982)
additional source	Lazareva, L.P. (1959). Sezonnye i vertikal'nye izmeneniya biomassy Pseudocalanus elongatus Boeck v Chernom more i raione Karadaga. [Seasonal and vertical changes in biomass of Pseudocalanus elongatus Boesk in the Black Sea and the Karadag region.]. Trudy Karadagskoi Nauchnoi Stantsii Imeni T.I. Viazemskago. 15: 3-12, figs. 1-5, tabs. 1-5. (Russian).
additional source	Margineanu, C. (1968). Les Copépodes cryophiles du littoral roumain de la mer Noire. I. Pseudocalanus elongatus (Boeck). [Cryophilic copepods of the Romanian Black Sea coast. I. Pseudocalanus elongatus (Boeck).]. Rapports et Procès-Verbaux des Réunions de la Commission Internationale pour l'Exploration Scientifique de la Mer Mediterranée, Monaco. 19(3): 421-422.
additional source	Paffenhöfer, G.A. & R.P. Harris. (1976). Feeding, growth and reproduction of the marine planktonic copepod Pseudocalanus elongatus Boeck. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 56(2):327-344, figs. 1-6, tabs. 1-7. (20.v.1976)
additional source	Katona, S.K. & C.F. Moodie. (1969). Breeding of Pseudocalanus elongatus in the laboratory. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 49:743-747, tabs. 1-2. (viii-1969)
additional source	Ciszewski, P. & Z. Witek. (1977). Production of older stages of copepods Acartia bifilosa Giesb., and Pseudocalanus elongatus Boeck in Gdánsk Bay. Polskie Archiwum Hydrobiologii 24(4):449-459, figs. 1-6, tabs. 1-2.
additional source	Zenetos, A., S. Gofas, M. Verlaque, M. Cinar, J. Garcia Raso, C. Bianchi, C. Morri, E. Azzurro, M. Bilecenoglu, C. Froglia, I. Siokou, D. Violanti, A. Sfriso, G. San Martin, A. Giangrande, T. Katagan, E. Ballesteros, A. Ramos-Espla, F. Mastrototaro, O. Ocana, A. Zingone, M,. Gambi & N. Streftaris. (2010). Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea by 2010. A contribution to the application of European Union's Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Part I. Spatial distribution. Mediterranean Marine Science. 11(2): 381-493.
additional source	Zenetos, A., M.E. Cinar, M.A. Pancucci-Papadopoulou, J.G. Harmelin, G. Furnari, F. Andaloro, N. Bellou, N. Streftaris & H. Zibrowius. (2005). Annotated list of marine alien species in the Mediterranean with records of the worst invasive species. Mediterranean Marine Science. 6 (2): 63-118.
additional source	Vives, F., V. Rodríguez & J. Rodíguez. (1981). Sobre la presencia de Pseudocalanus elongatus Boeck (Copepoda, Calanoida) en el mar de Alborán. [About the presence of Pseudocalanus elongatus Boeck (Copepoda, Calanoida) in the sea of Alborán.]. Investigación Pesquera, Barcelona. 45(2):337-343 , figs. 1-4. (x-1981, English summary).
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Stephensen, K. (1917). Zoogeographical investigation of certain fjords in southern Greenland, with special reference to Crustacea, Pycnogonida and Echinodermata including a list of Alcyonaria and Pisces. Meddelelser om Grønland. 53:229-378 ( for 1916).
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	Sazhina, L.I. (1985). Naupliusy massovykh vidov pelagickeskikh kopepod Mirovogo okeana. (Naupliuses of mass species of the world's oceans.) Naukova Dumka, Kiev 238pp.
additional source	Corkett, C.J. (1968). Observations sur les stades larvaires de Pseudocalanus elongatus Boeck et Temora longicornis Müller. [Observations on the larval stages of Pseudocalanus elongatus Boeck and Temora longicornis Müller.]. Pelagos. 8:51-57, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-2.
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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Corkett, C.J. (1966). Studies on the biology of the marine planktonic copepods, Pseudocalanus elongatus and Temora longicornis, together with morphological studies on the larval stages. Ph.D. Thesis, University of London 224pp.
additional source	Zelikman, E.A. (1961). Massovoe razvitie Pseudocalanus elongatus (Boeck) (Copepoda) v pribresh'e vostochnogo Murmana v 1956 g i ego prichiny. [Mass development of Pseudocalanus elongatus (Busk) (Sopepoda) in the eastern Murmansk region in 1956 and its causes.]. In: Kamshilov, M.M. (ed.). Gidrologicheskie i biologicheskie osobennosti pribrezhnykh vod Murmana. (Hydrological and biological features of the shore waters of Murman): Akad. Nauk SSSR, Kol'skii fil. S.M. Kirova, Murmansk. :127-135, fig. 1. (Russian).
additional source	Corkett, C.J. & E.J. Zillioux. (1975). Studies on the effect of temperature on the egg laying of three species of calanoid copepods in the laboratory (Acartia tonsa, Temora longicornis and Pseudocalanus elongatus). Bulletin of Plankton Society of Japan 21(2): 77-85, fig. 1, tabs. 1-2. (iv-1975)
additional source	Unal, E., B.W. Frost, V. Armbrust & A.E. Kideys. (2006). Phylogeography of Calanus helgolandicus and the Black Sea copepod Calanus euxinus, with notes on Pseudocalanus elongatus (Copepoda, Calanoida). Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 53(17-19):1961-1975.
additional source	Corkett, C.J. & D.L. Urry. (1968). Observations on the keeping of adult female Pseudocalanus elongatus under laboratory conditions. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 48(1):97-105, fig. 1, tabs. 1-6. (ii-1968)
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. Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865). 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:104515