Gaussia (crustacean)

Genus of crustaceans

For the genus of palms, see Gaussia (plant).

Gaussia

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Copepoda
Order:  | Calanoida
Family:  | Metridinidae
Genus:  | Gaussia
Wolfenden, 1905
Type species
Pleuromma princeps

(T. Scott, 1894)

Gaussia is a genus of copepods. The genus contains bioluminescent species.[1] It is a "characteristic genus of the mesopelagial", occurring at depths of 0–3,000 metres (0–9,843 ft).[2] The genus Gaussia contains the following species:[3]

* Gaussia asymmetrica T. K. S. Björnberg & Campaner, 1988
* Gaussia gadusae Sarkar, 2004
* Gaussia intermedia Defaye, 1998
* Gaussia melanotica Wolfenden, 1905
* Gaussia princeps (T. Scott, 1894) (type species)[4][5]
* Gaussia sewelli Saraswathy, 1973

## References

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1. ^ Herring, Peter J. (1987). "Systematic distribution of bioluminescence in living organisms". Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence. 1 (3): 147–163\. doi:10.1002/bio.1170010303. PMID 3503524.
2. ^ Tagea K. S. Björnberg; Antonio Frederico Campaner (1988). G. A. Boxshall; H. K. Schminke (eds.). "On Gaussia Wolfenden (Copepoda, Calanoida, Metridinidae)". Hydrobiologia. 167–168 (1): 351–356\. Bibcode:1988HyBio.167..351B. doi:10.1007/BF00026324.
3. ^ Juliana Kouwenberg & Geoff Boxshall (2011). T. Chad Walter & Geoff Boxshall (ed.). "Gaussia Wolfenden, 1905". World Copepoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
4. ^ Tagea K. S. Björnberg & Antonio F. Campaner (1990). "On the genus Gaussia and the species G. asymmetrica (Copepoda, Calanoida)". Crustaceana. 58 (1): 106–112\. doi:10.1163/156854090x00822. JSTOR 20104529.
5. ^ International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1990). "Opinion 1590. Pleuromma princeps Scott, 1894 (currently Gaussia princeps; Crustacea, Copepoda): specific name conserved". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 47 (2): 145–146.

## External links

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* Data related to Gaussia at Wikispecies

Taxon identifiers

Gaussia|

* Wikidata: Q5527827
* Wikispecies: Gaussia (Metridinidae)
* CoL: 7P392
* GBIF: 2114835
* iNaturalist: 180319
* IRMNG: 1278544
* ITIS: 85731
* NCBI: 136202
* NZOR: bf7f7e50-ab70-4420-a326-5b23e63b6677
* Open Tree of Life: 955892
* WoRMS: 104189

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