Black Sea Zooplankton checklist
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Oithona similis
From Black Sea Zooplankton checklist
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Scientific name
Oithona similis Claus, 1866
Taxonomy
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Maxillopoda |
| Subclass: | Copepoda |
| Order: | Cyclopoida |
| Family: | Oithonidae |
| Genus: | Oithona |
| Species: | Oithona similis |
| Author | Claus, 1866 |
Description
O. similis is a cosmopolitan species widespread in the World Ocean. According to Shuvalov (1980), in the tropical zones these copepods occur mostly in areas influenced by coldwater currents. In the Black Sea O. similis represents the coldwater copepod complex (Greze, 1971).
Average weight
| female | male | V | VI | III | II | I | nauplii | ova | |||||
| V | VI | III | II | I | |||||||||
| weight(mg) | 0.0052 | 0.0073 | 0.00014 | ||||||||||
Petipa, TS. 1957. On the average weight of common forms of zooplankton in the Black Sea. Tr. Sevastopol Stn. Akad. Nauk. Ukr. SSR, 9, 39-57 (in Russian)
Size
- Sevastopol bay
- female
- min size(mm) - 0.71
- max size(mm) - 0.8
- female
- Sevastopol bay
- male
- min size(mm) - 0.7
- max size(mm) - 0.73
- male
Images
 O. similis, female (from mouth of Sevastopol Bay, December 2006) |
