Euphausia

Taxobox
name = "Euphausia"


image_caption = "Euphausia superba"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Euphausiacea
familia = Euphausiidae
genus = "Euphausia"
genus_authority = Dana, 1852
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = Many, see text.

The genus "Euphausia" is the largest genus of krill within the family Euphausiidae.

Taxonomy

There are 31 species known in this genus.
*"Euphausia americana" Hansen, 1911
*"Euphausia brevis" Hansen, 1905
*"Euphausia crystallorophias" Holt and W. M. Tattersall, 1906 – common name Ice krill; Southern Ocean
*"Euphausia diomedeae" Ortmann, 1894
*"Euphausia distinguenda" Hansen, 1908
*"Euphausia eximia" Hansen, 1911
*"Euphausia fallax" Hansen, 1916
*"Euphausia frigida" Hansen, 1911
*"Euphausia gibba" G. O. Sars, 1883
*"Euphausia gibboides" Ortmann, 1893
*"Euphausia hanseni" Zimmer, 1915
*"Euphausia hemigibba" Hansen, 1910
*"Euphausia krohnii" (Brandt, 1851), formerly named "E. pellucida". The name "E. krohnii" is in reference to August David Krohn (1804 – 1891), a Russian embryologist and anatomist.
*"Euphausia lamelligera" Hansen, 1911
*"Euphausia longirostris" Hansen, 1908
*"Euphausia lucens" Hansen, 1905
*"Euphausia mucronata" G. O. Sars, 1883
*"Euphausia mutica" Hansen, 1905
*"Euphausia nana" Brinton, 1962 – Pacific Ocean; Sea of Japan
*"Euphausia pacifica" Hansen, 1911 – common name Pacific krill; Pacific Ocean
*"Euphausia paragibba" Hansen, 1910
*"Euphausia pseudogibba" Ortmann, 1893
*"Euphausia recurva" Hansen, 1905
*"Euphausia sanzoi" Torelli, 1934
*"Euphausia sibogae" Hansen, 1908
*"Euphausia similis" G. O. Sars, 1885
*"Euphausia spinifera" G. O. Sars, 1885
*"Euphausia superba" Dana, 1852 – common name Antarctic krill; Southern Ocean
*"Euphausia tenera" Hansen, 1905
*"Euphausia triacantha" Holt and Tattersall, 1906
*"Euphausia vallentini" Stebbing, 1900

References

* [http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=95501 Taxonomy of "Euphausia"] from ITIS.