WoRMS taxon details
Rhincalanus gigas Brady, 1883
220837 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220837)
accepted
Species
Rhincalanus grandis Giesbrecht, 1902 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Brady, G.S. (1883). Report on the Copepoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-76, Zoology.</em> 8 (part 23): 1-142, pl. 1-55., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39439478#page/1/mode/1up
page(s): 42 [details]
page(s): 42 [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Rhincalanus gigas Brady, 1883. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220837 on 2025-06-30
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Nomenclature
original description
Brady, G.S. (1883). Report on the Copepoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-76, Zoology.</em> 8 (part 23): 1-142, pl. 1-55., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39439478#page/1/mode/1up
page(s): 42 [details]
original description (of Rhincalanus grandis Giesbrecht, 1902) Giesbrecht, W. (1902). Zoologie Copepoden. <em>In: Résultats du voyage du S.Y. Belgica en 1897-1898-1899. Rapports scientifiques publiés aux frais du Government Belge.</em> :1-49, pls. 1-13. [details]
basis of record Grice, G.D. & K. Hulsemann. (1967). Bathypelagic calanoid copepods of the western Indian Ocean. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 122(3583):1-67, figs. 1-319., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.122-3583.1 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 42 [details]
original description (of Rhincalanus grandis Giesbrecht, 1902) Giesbrecht, W. (1902). Zoologie Copepoden. <em>In: Résultats du voyage du S.Y. Belgica en 1897-1898-1899. Rapports scientifiques publiés aux frais du Government Belge.</em> :1-49, pls. 1-13. [details]
basis of record Grice, G.D. & K. Hulsemann. (1967). Bathypelagic calanoid copepods of the western Indian Ocean. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 122(3583):1-67, figs. 1-319., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.122-3583.1 [details] Available for editors
[request]Ecology
ecology source
Brun, P., M.R. Payne & T. Kiørboe. (2017). A trait database for marine copepods. <em>Earth System Science Data.</em> 9(1):99-113., available online at https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-99-2017 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Bathmann, U.V., R.R. Makarov, V.A. Spiridonov & G. Rohardt. (1993). Winter distribution and overwintering strategies of the Antarctic copepod species Calanoides acutus, Rhincalanus gigas and Calanus propinquus (Crustacea, Calanoida) in the Weddell Sea. Polar Biology 13(5):333-346. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Marín, V.H. (1988). Qualitative models of the life cycles of Calanoides acutus, Calanus propinquus and Rhincalanus gigas. Polar Biology 8(6):439-446, figs. 1-6, tabs. 1-3. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Rakusa-Suszczewski, S., M.A. McWhinnie & M.O. Cahoon. (1976). Respiration of the antarctic copepod, Rhincalanus gigas. Limnology and Oceanography 21(5):763-765, tab. 1. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ommanney, F.D. (1936). Rhincalanus gigas (Brady), a copepod of the southern macroplankton. Discovery Reports 13:277-384, figs. 1-29, tabs. 1-6. (x-1936) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Perissinotto, R. & E.A. Pakhomov. (1997). Feeding association of the copepod Rhincalanus gigas with the tunicate Salpa thompsoni in the southern ocean. Marine Biology, Berlin 127(3):479-483. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Perkins, P.S., D. Haley & R. Rosenblatt. (1997). Proteolytic enzymes in the blood-feeding parasitic copepod, Phrixocephalus cincinnatus. Journal of Parasitology 83(1):6-12. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sazhina, L.I. (1985). Naupliusy massovykh vidov pelagickeskikh kopepod Mirovogo okeana. [Nauplii of mass species pelagic copeopds of the world ocean.]. <em>Naukova Dumka, Kiev.</em> 238 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Schmaus, P.H. (1917). Die Rhincalanus-Arten, ihre Systematik, Entwicklung und Verbreitung. (Vierte Mitteilung über die Copepoden der Valdivia-Expedition). [The Rhincalanus species, their systematics, development and distribution. (Fourth communication on the copepods of the Valdivia expedition).]. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 48(11):305-319, (12): 356-368, figs. 1-24. (6-iii-1917; 20-iii-1917). [details]
additional source Schmaus, P.H. & K. Lehnhofer. (1927). Copepoda 4: Rhincalanus Dana 1852 der Deutschen Tiefsee Expedition. Systematik und Verbreitung der Gattung. [Copepoda 4: Rhincalanus Dana 1852 of the German Deep Sea Expedition. Systematics and distribution of the genus.]. <em>Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition 'Valdivia'.</em> 23: 355-400, figs. 1-29, tabs. a-c. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Scott, T. (1897). Rhincalanus gigas, Brady, in the Moray Firth. <em>Annals of Scottish Natural History.</em> 1897: 127. [details]
additional source Voronina, N.M. (1971). The vertical distribution of a widespread copepod, Rhincalanus gigas, in the Southern Ocean. Oceanology 10(5):681-692. (v.1971; English translation of 1970 article.) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ward, P., R.S. Shreeve & G.C. Cripps. (1996). Rhincalanus gigas and Calanus simillimus: lipid storage patterns of two species of copepod in the seasonally ice-free zone of the Southern Ocean. <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 18(8):1439-1454. [details] Available for editors [request]
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. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lee, B.D. (1966). Distribution and abundance of pelagic copepods in the Drake Passage and off the coast of Argentina, with special reference to hydrology of these areas. Ph.D. Thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1-250, pls. 1-56. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Michels, J. & S.N. Gorb. (2015). Mandibular gnathobases of marine planktonic copepods - feeding tools with complex micro- and nanoscale composite architectures. <em>Beilstein Journal Of Nanotechnology.</em> 6 :74-685., available online at https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.6.68 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Scott, A. (1909). The Copepoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part I. Free-swimming, littoral and semi-parasitic Copepoda. <em>Siboga Expeditie, Monograph, Leiden.</em> 29:1-323, pls. 1-69., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2191407#page/11/mode/1up
page(s): 24 [details]
additional source Bathmann, U.V., R.R. Makarov, V.A. Spiridonov & G. Rohardt. (1993). Winter distribution and overwintering strategies of the Antarctic copepod species Calanoides acutus, Rhincalanus gigas and Calanus propinquus (Crustacea, Calanoida) in the Weddell Sea. Polar Biology 13(5):333-346. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Marín, V.H. (1988). Qualitative models of the life cycles of Calanoides acutus, Calanus propinquus and Rhincalanus gigas. Polar Biology 8(6):439-446, figs. 1-6, tabs. 1-3. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Rakusa-Suszczewski, S., M.A. McWhinnie & M.O. Cahoon. (1976). Respiration of the antarctic copepod, Rhincalanus gigas. Limnology and Oceanography 21(5):763-765, tab. 1. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ommanney, F.D. (1936). Rhincalanus gigas (Brady), a copepod of the southern macroplankton. Discovery Reports 13:277-384, figs. 1-29, tabs. 1-6. (x-1936) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Perissinotto, R. & E.A. Pakhomov. (1997). Feeding association of the copepod Rhincalanus gigas with the tunicate Salpa thompsoni in the southern ocean. Marine Biology, Berlin 127(3):479-483. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Perkins, P.S., D. Haley & R. Rosenblatt. (1997). Proteolytic enzymes in the blood-feeding parasitic copepod, Phrixocephalus cincinnatus. Journal of Parasitology 83(1):6-12. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sazhina, L.I. (1985). Naupliusy massovykh vidov pelagickeskikh kopepod Mirovogo okeana. [Nauplii of mass species pelagic copeopds of the world ocean.]. <em>Naukova Dumka, Kiev.</em> 238 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Schmaus, P.H. (1917). Die Rhincalanus-Arten, ihre Systematik, Entwicklung und Verbreitung. (Vierte Mitteilung über die Copepoden der Valdivia-Expedition). [The Rhincalanus species, their systematics, development and distribution. (Fourth communication on the copepods of the Valdivia expedition).]. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 48(11):305-319, (12): 356-368, figs. 1-24. (6-iii-1917; 20-iii-1917). [details]
additional source Schmaus, P.H. & K. Lehnhofer. (1927). Copepoda 4: Rhincalanus Dana 1852 der Deutschen Tiefsee Expedition. Systematik und Verbreitung der Gattung. [Copepoda 4: Rhincalanus Dana 1852 of the German Deep Sea Expedition. Systematics and distribution of the genus.]. <em>Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition 'Valdivia'.</em> 23: 355-400, figs. 1-29, tabs. a-c. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Scott, T. (1897). Rhincalanus gigas, Brady, in the Moray Firth. <em>Annals of Scottish Natural History.</em> 1897: 127. [details]
additional source Voronina, N.M. (1971). The vertical distribution of a widespread copepod, Rhincalanus gigas, in the Southern Ocean. Oceanology 10(5):681-692. (v.1971; English translation of 1970 article.) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ward, P., R.S. Shreeve & G.C. Cripps. (1996). Rhincalanus gigas and Calanus simillimus: lipid storage patterns of two species of copepod in the seasonally ice-free zone of the Southern Ocean. <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 18(8):1439-1454. [details] Available for editors
[request]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. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lee, B.D. (1966). Distribution and abundance of pelagic copepods in the Drake Passage and off the coast of Argentina, with special reference to hydrology of these areas. Ph.D. Thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1-250, pls. 1-56. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Michels, J. & S.N. Gorb. (2015). Mandibular gnathobases of marine planktonic copepods - feeding tools with complex micro- and nanoscale composite architectures. <em>Beilstein Journal Of Nanotechnology.</em> 6 :74-685., available online at https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.6.68 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Scott, A. (1909). The Copepoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part I. Free-swimming, littoral and semi-parasitic Copepoda. <em>Siboga Expeditie, Monograph, Leiden.</em> 29:1-323, pls. 1-69., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2191407#page/11/mode/1up
page(s): 24 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls/OOB/UPMC/CNRS) Note: Including taxonomic identification plates, remarks, geographic distribution, ecological information & reference list
To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Rhincalanus gigas)
To GenBank (21 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (7 records)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Rhincalanus gigas)
To GenBank (21 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (7 records)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
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