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

Mecynocera clausi Thompson I.C., 1888

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mecynocera*	Thompson I.C., 1888	accepted genus name
*Leptocalanus*	Bernard, 1958	synonym

Species group names

*Mecynocera clausii*	Thompson I.C., 1888	orthographic variant; alternate representation

Literature

original description	Thompson, I.C. (1888). Copepoda of Madeira and the Canary Islands, with descriptions of new genera and species. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology. 20: 145-156, pls. 10-13.
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	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32.
additional source	Gómez-Caballero, I.O. (1982). Los copépodos planctónicos del mar peruano. [The planktonic copepods of Peruvian seas.] Boletín de Lima 23:53-70. [In Spanish.]
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	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	Brenning, U. (1982). Beiträge zur Calanoidenfauna (Crustacea, Copepoda) vor Nordwest- und Südwestafrika. III. Die Vertreter der Familien Paracalanidae und Calocalanidae. [Contributions to the Calanoid Fauna (Crustacea, Copepoda) off Northwest and Southwest Africa. III. Representatives of the Families Paracalanidae and Calocalanidae.]. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Wilhelm-Pieck-Universität, Rostock, 31, Mathematische-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe (6) (= Meeresbiol. Beiträge Sektion Biologie. (6) (= Meeresbiol. Beiträge Sektion Biologie, 10):1-9, figs. 1-10, tabs. 1-6.
additional source	Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.).
additional source	Scott, T. (1894). Report on Entomostraca from the Gulf of Guinea, collected by John Rattray, B.Sc. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Series 2, Zoology. 6(1):1-161, pls. 1-15.
additional source	Brodsky, K.A. (1962). K faune i raspredeleniyu veslonogikh rachkov Calanoida poverkhnostnykh vod severo-zapadnoi chasti Tikhogo okeana. [On the fauna and distribution of the calanoid copepods from the surface waters of the north-western Pacific Ocean.]. Issledovaniya dal'nevost. Morei SSSR. 8:91-166, figs. 1-60. (Russian).
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.
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.
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. Mecynocera clausi Thompson I.C., 1888. 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:104616