Abstract
The first marine pelagic copepod to be described was taken from the sea a little south of Hammerfest in northern Norway (Finmark) in 1767 and was called Monoculus finmarchicus by its discoverer Gunnerus (1770), bishop of Nideros (Trondheim). His diagnosis is as follows:
‘To the Insecta aptera finally belongs:
MONOCULUS finmarchicus, annulis postice qvinqve; capite obtuso: pedum anteriorum qvatur; posteriorum vero qvinqve paribus: cauda recta, bifida.’
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Marshall, S.M., Orr, A.P. (1972). Systematics and Distribution. In: The Biology of a Marine Copepod. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13138-1_1
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