Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Synonymised names Corycaeus (Corycaeus) speciosus Dana, 1849· accepted, alternate representation Corycaeus remiger Dana, 1849 (listed as probable synonym by Giesbrecht, 1893) Corycaeus varius Dana, 1849 (listed as synonym by Vives & Shmeleva, 2010)

Taxon origin: Native

Distribution: Central zone: Santa Cruz, Santiago, Pinta

• Diego F. Figueroa (2021) Environmental forcing on zooplankton distribution in the coastal waters of the Galápagos Islands: spatial and seasonal patterns in the copepod community structure Vol. 661: 49–69, 2021 https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13617 https://www.int-res.com/articles/meps_oa/m661p049.pdf
• Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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