Acartia clausi
| Acartia clausi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Maxillopoda |
| Subclass: | Copepoda |
| Order: | Calanoida |
| Family: | Acartiidae |
| Genus: | Acartia |
| Species: | A. clausi |
| Binomial name | |
| Acartia clausi Giesbrecht, 1889 | |
Acartia clausi is a species of marine copepod belonging to the family Acartiidae. This species was previously thought to have a worldwide distribution but recent research [1] has restricted its range to coastal regions of the north-east Atlantic Ocean as far north as Iceland, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, with specimens from other regions assigned to different species.
At just over 1 mm in length, this is a generally larger animal than its closest congeners. It can also be distinguished by the row of large spines at the rear margin of the body segment known as the metasome.
References
- ↑ Bradford, Janet (1976). "Partial Revision of the Acartia Subgenus Acartiura (Copepoda: Calanoida: Acartiidae)". New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 10 (1): 159–202. doi:10.1080/00288330.1976.9515606.
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