Eucalanus hyalinus (Claus 1866)

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Eucalanus hyalinus is a species of copepods in the family Eucalanidae. Individuals can grow to 6.055 mm.

EOL has data for 25 attributes, including:

body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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8.25 mm
carbon biomass
- URI: http://purl.dataone.org/odo/ECSO_00001143
- Definition: The amount of carbon present in biomass
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0.236 mg
diel vertical migration
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/dielVerticalMigration
- Definition: A pattern of movement used by some organisms, such as Copepods, living in the ocean and in lakes. The migration occurs when organisms move up to the epipelagic zone at night and return to the mesopelagic zone of the oceans or to the hypolimnion zone of lakes during the day
- Attribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diel_vertical_migration
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no
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/no
- Definition: This statement is false; the answer to this question is no.
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dry body mass
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/bodyMassDry
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0.511 mg
ecomorphological guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/EcomorphologicalGuild
- Definition: organisms that share certain morphological traits due to adaptation to similar environments and ecological roles
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geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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United States
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/6252001
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habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
- Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x
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mesopelagic zone
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000213
- Definition: The zone of an ocean immediately below the photic zone down to a depth where the water temperature is 10degC (the thermocline).
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habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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bathypelagic zone
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000211
- Definition: The one of an ocean below the 10degC thermocline down to a temperature of 4degC.
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prosome length
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/ProsomeLength
- Definition: Length of the prosome of an arthropod. Prosome: anterior region of body, commonly limited behind by major articulation. Collective term for the combined cephalasome and metasome in copepods
- Attribution: http://crustacea.academic.ru/1397/prosome
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6.055 mm
prosome width
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/ProsomeWidth
- Definition: Width of the prosome of an arthropod. Prosome: anterior region of body, commonly limited behind by major articulation. Collective term for the combined cephalasome and metasome in copepods
- Attribution: http://crustacea.academic.ru/1397/prosome
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1.416 mm
water temperature
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeawaterTemperature
- Definition: Temperature of the water at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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11.716 degrees celsius
zooplankton feeding mode
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/ZooplanktonFeedingMode
- Definition: behavior by which zooplankton obtain food; ambush, feeding current, or cruising. (Barton, AD, Pershing, AJ, Litchman, E, Record, NR, Edwards, KF, Finkel, ZV, Kiørboe, T, Ward, BA. 2013. The biogeography of marine plankton traits. Ecology Letters (2013) 16: 522–534. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12063)
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filter feeder
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1252491
- Definition: a sub-group of suspension feeding animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing the water over a specialized filtering structure
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Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Eucalanus hyalinus (Claus 1866). View this species on GBIF

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