Acartia tonsa

Author
Dana, 1849

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Min Depth
0 meters
Max Depth
50 meters
Overall Geographic Range
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian
Habitat-Biology
  • planktonic
  • estuarine
  • euryhaline
References

  • Campos, A., and E. Suárez-Morales, 1994. Copépodos pelágicos del Golfo de México y Mar Caribe. I. Sistemática y Biología. CONACYT/ CIQRO. México.

  • Fleminger, A. 1956. Taxonomic and distributional studies on the epiplanktonic calanoid copepods (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University Library.

  • Gillespie, M. C. 1971. Analysis and treatment of zooplankton of estuarine waters of Lousiana. Pp. 107–175 in Louisiana Wild Life and Fisheries Commission, ed. Cooperative Gulf of Mexico Estuarine Inventory and Study (Lousiana).

  • Grice, G. D. 1960a. Calanoid and cyclopoid copepods collected from the Florida Gulf coast and Florida Keys in 1954 and 1955. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf & Caribbean 10: 217–226.

  • Ortner, P. B., L. C. Hill, and S. R. Cummings. 1989. Zooplankton community structure and copepod species composition in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Continental Shelf Research 9: 387–402.

  • Woodmansee, R. A. 1958. The seasonal distribution of the zooplankton off chicken key in Biscayne Bay, Florida. Ecology 39: 247–262.

Species Notes

None noted.

Source

Suárez-Morales, E., J. W. Fleeger, and P. A. Montagna. 2009. Free-Living Copepoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 841–869 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

GulfBase Citation

Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. 2016. GulfBase: Resource Database for Gulf of Mexico Research, Education, and Management. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.gulfbase.org, 05-08-2024.

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