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6.9. Southern Ocean Euphausiids

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posted on 2023-05-22, 21:41 authored by Cuzin-Roudy, J, Irisson, J-O, Penot, F, So KawaguchiSo Kawaguchi, Vallet, C
With 85 species, they are the major family of the order Euphausiacea (86 species). Known since ancient times to be present with baleen whales in Atlantic ocean and Mediterranean Sea (Pliny’s Naturalis Historiae, circa AD 77-79), they were named “krill” (whale food) by Nordic whalers.

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Publication title

Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean

Editors

C de Broyer and P Koubbi

Pagination

309-320

ISBN

978-0-948277-28-3

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Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies

Publisher

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

Place of publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Extent

66

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Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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  • Open

Socio-economic Objectives

Biodiversity in Antarctic and Southern Ocean environments

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    Southern Ocean EuphausiidsCrustaceaEuphausiacea

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