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  Genus Limnocalanus

Species L. macrurus (+ L. grimaldii)

Taxon Information

The Species L. macrurus has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from Wisconsin.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Limnocalanus macrurus, "Canada (general, including Adelaide Peninsula and Ellesmere Island), USA (Alaska, northeastern states west to Wisconsin, Washington), western Greenland, Northern Europe. Brackish coastal waters, brackish and freshwater coastal lakes" (Reid & Williamson, 2010).
• Limnocalanus macrurus, [North Central United States] (Underhill et al., 1982).
• Limnocalanus macrurus, "Lakes. Northeastern U.S. west to Wis.; Canada; Alaska, Greenland; northern Europe" (Wilson & Yeatman, 1959).

Bibliography

• Reid, J.W. & C.E. Williamson. 2010. Copepoda. [in] J.H. Thorp & A.P. Covich (eds.). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition: 829-899.
• Underhill, J.C., W.D. Schmid & D.E. Gilbertson. 1982. Taxonomic Keys to the Common Animals of the North Central States, exclusive of the parasitic worms, terrestrial insects, and birds, 4th edition. 205 pp.
• Wilson, M.S. & H.C. Yeatman. 1959. Free-Living Copepoda. [in] W.T. Edmondson (ed.). Ward & Whipple Fresh-Water Biology, 2nd edition: 735-861.

Web Pages

• An Image-Based Key To The Zooplankton Of North America
• Free-Living and Parasitic Copepods (including Branchiruans) of the Laurentian Great Lakes: Keys and Details on Individual Species
• Wisconsin's Rare Crustaceans
• Zooplankton of the Great Lakes