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Oithona plumifera   Baird, 1843


Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Oithona plumifera  AquaMaps  Data sources: GBIF OBIS
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Copepoda | Cyclopoida | Oithonidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Pelagic; depth range 0 - 2383 m (Ref. 108332).  Subtropical

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Indo-West Pacific and Western Central Atlantic.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Neritic (Ref. 111077). Omnivore (Ref. 129013). Feeds on phytoplankton and may possibly feed raptorially on larger particles (Ref. 108453).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Members of the subclass Copepoda are gonochoric and sexually dimorphic. During copulation, male glues spermatophores to the female's venter. Life cycle: Eggs undergo six naupliar and five larval stages before becoming an adult.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Hwang, J.-S., H.-U. Dahms, L.-C. Tseng and Q.-C. Chen. 2007. (Ref. 77779)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)


CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

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BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 0.3 - 12.2, mean 7.2 (based on 383 cells).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.