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

Limnocalanus macrurus Sars G.O., 1863

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

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Limnocalanus*	G.O. Sars, 1863	accepted genus name

Children

Limnocalanus macrurus macrurus Sars G.O., 1863

Literature

original description	Sars, G.O. (1863). Oversigt af de indenlandske Ferskvandcopepoder. [Overview of the domestic Freshwater Copepods.]. Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiana. 1862:212-262.
basis of record	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.
additional source	Franke, U. (1989). Katalog zur Sammlung limnischer Copepoden von Prof. Dr. Friedrich Kiefer (Mit einem Gesamtverzeichnis seiner Publikationen). Catolog of the freshwater copepods of Dr. Friedrich Kiefer. Carolinea Beiheft, Karlsrühe. 5:1-433, figs. 1-2.
additional source	Herrick, C.L. (1895). Part I. Copepoda of Minnesota. In: Herrick, C.L. & C.H. Turner (eds.). Second report of the State Zoologist including a synopsis of the Entomostraca of Minnesota. Geological Natural History Survery of Minnesota (Zoological Series.). 2:41-138, 81 plates.
additional source	Fomina, Y.Y. & M.T. Syarki. (2022). Life cycle of the copepod, Limnocalanus macrurus Sars 1863 (Copepoda, Calaniformes, Centropagidae) in Lake Onego. Zoologichesky Zhurnal. 101(1):3-13. [Russian}, [English translantion of Fomina, Y.Y. & M.T. Syarki. (2022). Life cycle of the copepod, Limnocalanus macrurus Sars 1863 (Copepoda, Calaniformes, Centropagidae) in Lake Onego. Biology Bulletin. 49(9):1261-1270. Jan 2022].
additional source	Bowers, J.A. & G.J. Warren. (1977). Predaceous feeding by Limnocalanus macrurus upon Diaptomus ashlandi. Journal of Great Lakes Research 3(3/4):234-236, figs. 1-2, tab. 1.
additional source	Aispure, G. (2002). Dynamics of Limnocalanus macrurus in the Gulf of Riga. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.
additional source	Latimer, D.L., A.S. Brooks & A.M. Beeton. (1975). Toxicity of 30-minute exposures of residual chlorine to the copepods Limnocalanus macrurus and Cyclops bicuspidatus thomasi. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 32(12):2495-2501, tabs. 1-3. (xii-1975).
additional source	Carter, J.C.H. (1969). Life cycles of Limnocalanus macrurus and Senecella calanoides, and seasonal abundance and vertical distribution of various planktonic copepods, in Parry Sound, Georgian Bay. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 26(10):2543-2560, figs. 1-9. (x-1969)
additional source	Guerne, J. de & J. Richard. (1889). Révision des Calanides d'eau douce. [Revision of freshwater Calanidae.]. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France. 2:1-129 , figs. 1-60, pls. 1-4.
additional source	Conway, J.B. (1977). Seasonal and depth distribution of Limnocalanus macrurus at a site on western Lake Superior. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 3(1-2):15-19, figs. 1-3, tabs. 1-2. (x-1977).
additional source	Marsh, C.D. (1933). Synopsis of the calanoid crustaceans, exclusive of the Diaptomidae, found in fresh and brackish waters, chiefly of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 82(18)(2959):1-58, pls. 1-24. (30-vi-1933)
additional source	Aispure, G. (2006). Copepod Limnocalanus macrurus mating in relation to vertical migrations and aspects of feeding rates in the Bothnian Sea (Baltic Sea). In: Proceedings, 2006 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), US/EU Baltic International Symposium, 23-26 May 2006, Klaipeda, Lithuania. 617 pp. :436-444.
additional source	Bowkiewicz, J. (1937). Limnocalanus macrurus G.O. Sars, nowy dla fauny gatunek widlonogów. Limnocalanus macrurus G.O. Sars, eine für Polen neue Copepoden Art. [Limnocalanus macrurus G.O. Sars, a new species of copepods for the fauna]. Fragmenta Faunistica, Warsaw. 3(5):27-32. (10-iii-1937, Polish with German summary.).
additional source	Dussart, B.H. & D. Defaye. (2001). Copepoda: Introduction to the Copepoda. (2nd edition)(revised and enlarged). Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World. H.J.F. Dumont (ed.). SPB Academic Publishers, The Hague. 16:1-344.
additional source	Yashnova, M.K. (1929). O nakhoozdenii Limnocalanus macrurus v del'te reki Severnoi Dviny. Über das Vorkommen von Limnocalanus macrurus im Delta der Dwina. [On the location of Limnocalanus macrurus in the delta of the Northern Dvina River.]. Russiskii Gidrobiologicheskii Zhurnal, Saratov. 8:304-308, fig. 1, tab. 1. (xi/xii-1929, Russian with German summary).
additional source	von Weissenberg, E., H. Ruhanen, M. Holopainen, R. Käkelä & J. Engstroem-Öst. (2024). Fatty acid profiles reveal dietary variability of a large calanoid copepod Limnocalanus macrurus in the northern Baltic Sea. Frontiers In Marine Science. 11:1-12. 1340349. Feb 2024.
additional source	Kiefer, F. (1978). Freilebende Copepoda. [Free-living Copepoda]. In: Kiefer, F. & G. Fryer (eds.) Das Zooplankton der Binnengewässer, 2. Teil.; In: Elster, H.J. & W. Ohle (eds) Die Binnengewässer Einzeldarstellungen aus del Limnologie und ihren Nachbargebietien. 26(2):1-343, figs. 1-22, pls. 1-96, tabs. 1-12, Beilage.
additional source	Monchenko, V.I. (1957). Do morfologii V para grudnikh kintsivoku Eurytemora Giesbrecht (Copepoda). [The morphology of thoracic legs V in Eurytemora giesbrechtii (Copepoda).]. Trudy Instituta Zoologii, Kyyiv (Kiev). 14:44-48, fig. 1. (Ukrainian with Russian summary.).
additional source	Marsh, C.D. (1895). On the Cyclopidae and Calanidae of Lake St. Clair, Lake Michigan, and certain of the inland lakes of Michigan. Bulletin of the Michigan Fish Commission, Lansing. 5:1-24, pls. 1-9. (completed volume in 1897).
additional source	Gannon, J.E. & A.M. Beeton. (1972). The decline of the large zooplankter, Limnocalanus macrurus Sars (Copepoda, Calanoida), in Lake Erie. In: Proceedings of the XIV Conference on Great Lakes Research :27-38, figs. 1-4.
additional source	Rigler, F.H. & R.R. Langford. (1967). Cogeneric occurrence of species of Diaptomus in southern Ontario lakes. Canadian Journal of Zoology 45:81-90, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-4. (i-1967)
additional source	Smith, K.E. (1977). The taxonomy and distribution of Ontario copepod Crustacea (Calanoida and Cyclopoida) with keys to the species. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 121 pp.
additional source	Roff, J.C. & J.C.H. Carter. (1972). Life cycle and seasonal abundance of the copepod Limnocalanus macrurus Sars in a high arctic lake. Limnology and Oceanography. 17(3):363-370, figs. 1-4, tab. 1.
additional source	Patalas, J. & K. Patalas. (1978). Spatial variation in size and reproductive cycle of Limnocalanus macrurus in a deep, subantarctic lake, Great Slave Lake. Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 20(1):150-158, figs. 1-12, tab. 1. (ix-1978)
additional source	Sars, G.O. (1902). Copepoda Calanoida, Parts VII & VIII, Centropagidae, Diaptomidae. An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum. 4:73-96, pls. 49-64.
additional source	Schacht, F.W. (1898). The North American Centropagidae belonging to the genera Osphranticum, Limnocalanus, and Epischura. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History 5(4):225-270.
additional source	Marsh, C.D. (1893). On the Cyclopidae and Calanidae of central Wisconsin. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 9:189-224, pls. 3-6. [Read before the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, June 1892].
additional source	Wierzbicka, M. (1953). Limnocalanus macrurus G.O. Sars w jeziorach pólnocno-wschodniej Polski. [Limnocalanus macrurus G.O. Sars in the lakes of north-eastern Poland.]. Fragmenta Faunistica Musei Zoologici Polonici, Warsaw. 6(20):525-540, fig. 1, tabs. 1-3. (16-vii-1953).
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Roff, J.C. (1972). Aspects of the reproductive biology of the planktonic copepod Limnocalanus macrurus Sars, 1863. Crustaceana, Leiden 22(2):155-160, figs. 1-3, pl. 1. (9-iii-1972)
additional source	Drits, A.V., A.F. Pasternak, A.B. Nikishina, T.N. Semenova, V.M. Sergeeva, A.A. Polukhin & M.V. Flint. (2016). The dominant copepods Senecella siberica and Limnocalanus macrurus in the Ob Estuary: ecology in a high-gradient environment. Polar Biology, 39(9):1527-1538.
additional source	Einsle, U. (1993). Crustacea: Copepoda: Calanoida und Cyclopoida. In: Schwoerbel, J. & P. Zwick (eds.). Süsswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, Gustav Fischer Verlag. 8(4-1):1-209. (German).

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Limnocalanus macrurus Sars G.O., 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:157674

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Limnocalanus macrurus Sars G.O., 1863. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/4b756f54-b089-4b69-a1c2-4515772fb9bc