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Acartia is a genus of marine calanoid

Calanoida

Calanoida is an order of copepods, a kind of zooplankton. They include around 40 families with about 1800 species of both marine and freshwater copepods. Calanoid copepods are dominant in the plankton in many parts of the world's oceans, making up 55%–95% of plankton samples...

copepod

Copepod

Copepods are a group of small crustaceans found in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat. Some species are planktonic , some are benthic , and some continental species may live in limno-terrestrial habitats and other wet terrestrial places, such as swamps, under leaf fall in wet forests,...

s. This genus contains the majority of species in the family Acartiidae

Acartiidae

Acartiidae is a family of calanoid copepods distinguishable by the rostral margin not being extended. They are epipelagic, planktonic animals, not being found below a depth of . There are over 100 described species distributed throughout the world's oceans, mainly in temperate areas....

, containing the following species:

Acartia adriatica Steuer, 1910
Acartia amboinensis Carl, 1907
Acartia asymmetrica Tanaka, 1964
Acartia australis Farran, 1936
Acartia bacorehuisensis Zamora-Sánchez & Gómez-Aguirre, 1986
Acartia baylyi Greewood, 1972
Acartia bermudensis Esterly, 1911
Acartia bifilosa (Giesbrecht, 1881)
Acartia bilobata Abraham, 1970
Acartia bispinosa Carl, 1907
Acartia bowmani Abraham, 1976
Acartia californiensis Trinast, 1976
Acartia centrura Giesbrecht, 1889
Acartia chilkaensis Sewell, 1919
Acartia clausi
Acartia clausi
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 has restricted its range to coastal regions of the north-east Atlantic Ocean as far north as Iceland, the Mediterranean Sea and...

Giesbrecht, 1889
Acartia clausii Giesbrecht, 1889
Acartia danae Giesbrecht, 1889
Acartia denticornis Brady, 1883
Acartia discaudata (Giesbrecht, 1882)
Acartia dubia Scott]] T., 1893

Acartia dweepi Haridas & Madhupratap, 1978

Acartia ensifera

Acartia ensifera is a species of marine copepod belonging to the family Acartiidae. This is a slender copepod, around 0.8 - 0.9 mm in length, with distinctively long caudal rami. It is found around the coasts of New Zealand .-References:*...

Brady, 1899

Acartia enzoi Crisafi, 1974

Acartia eremeevi Pavlova & Shmeleva, 2010

Acartia erythraea Giesbrecht, 1889

Acartia fancetti McKinnon, Kimmerer & Benzie, 1992

Acartia fariai Oliveira, 1945

Acartia floridana Davis, 1948

Acartia forcipata I. C. Thompson & A. Scott in Thompson, Scott & Herdman, 1898

Acartia fossae Gurney, 1927

Acartia gracilis Herrick, 1887

Acartia hongi Soh & Suh, 2000

Acartia hudsonica

Acartia hudsonica is a species of marine copepod belonging to the family Acartiidae. This species was originally described as a subspecies of Acartia clausi but subsequent research concluded it is sufficiently distinct to warrant specific status...

Pinhey, 1926

Acartia intermedia (Poppe, 1885)

Acartia iseana ItoTak, 1956

Acartia italica Steuer, 1910

Acartia japonica Mori, 1940

Acartia jilletti

Acartia jilletti is a species of marine copepod belonging to the family Acartiidae. This species has a total length of up to 1 mm. It is very similar to Acartia ensifera but the female can be distinguished by the shorter caudal rami and the male by the relative length of spines on the fifth...

Bradford, 1976

Acartia laxa Dana, 1852

Acartia lefevreae

Acartia lefevreae is a species of copepod belonging to the family Acartiidae. This species was discovered when specimens previously identified as Acartia clausi were examined and found to belong to a separate species . Its range overlaps with that of A...

Bradford, 1976

Acartia levequei Grice, 1964

Acartia lilljeborgii Giesbrecht, 1889

Acartia limpida Dana, 1849

Acartia longiremis (Lilljeborg, 1853)

Acartia longisetosa Brady, 1914

Acartia macropus Cleve, 1900

Acartia margalefi Alcaraz, 1976

Acartia mediterranea Pesta, 1909

Acartia mollicula Pavlova & Shmeleva, 2010

Acartia mossi (Norman, 1878)

Acartia nana Brady, 1914

Acartia negligens Dana, 1849

Acartia ohtsukai Ueda & Bucklin, 2006

Acartia omorii

Acartia omorii is a species of marine copepod belonging to the family Acartiidae. This species was discovered when specimens previously identified as Acartia clausi were examined and found to belong to a separate species. This species is found around the coast of Japan. It is similar to A...

Bradford, 1976

Acartia pacifica Steuer, 1915

Acartia pietschmani Pesta, 1912

Acartia plumosa T. Scott, 1894

Acartia ponteloides (Kritchagin, 1873)

Acartia ransoni Vaissière, 1954

Acartia remivagantis Oliveira, 1946

Acartia sarojus Madhupratap & Haridas, 1994

Acartia seshaiyai Subbaraju, 1968

Acartia sewelli Steuer, 1934

Acartia simplex

Acartia simplex is a species of marine copepod belonging to the family Acartiidae. This species, just under 1 mm in length, is rather similar to Acartia ensifera but can be distinguished by the presence of spines on the dorsal part of the posterior body segment . Like A. ensifera, it is found...

G. O. Sars, 1905

Acartia sinjiensis Mori, 1940

Acartia southwelli Sewell, 1914

Acartia spinicauda Giesbrecht, 1889

Acartia steueri Smirnov, 1936

Acartia teclae

Acartia teclae is a species of copepod belonging to the family Acartiidae. This species was discovered when specimens previously identified as Acartia clausi were examined and found to belong to a separate species...

Bradford, 1976

Acartia tokiokai Mori, 1942

Acartia tonsa Dana, 1849

Acartia tranteri

Acartia tranteri is a species of marine copepod belonging to the family Acartiidae. This Australian species is related to the New Zealand species A. ensifera, A. jilletti and A...

Bradford, 1976

Acartia tropica Ueda & Hiromi, 1987

Acartia tsuensis ItoTak, 1956

Acartia tumida Willey, 1920

Acartia verrucosa Thompson, 1888

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