Marine Planktonic Copepods

Map of the 25 geographical zones

Map of the 25 geographical zones
3 : Sub-Antarctic
4 : Antarctic
5 : South Africa (E & W), Namibia
6 : Gulf of Guinea (sensu lato): Angola-Liberia
7 : Venezuela, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Florida, Sargasso Sea
8 : Cape Verde Is., Canary Is., Madeira Is., Azores, Bay of Biscay, Ibero-Moroccan Bay
9 : Ireland, English Channel, Faroe, Norway, North Sea, Baltic Sea
10 : Southern Iceland, southern Greenland (E & W), Strait of Davis, Labrador Sea
11 : Cape Cod, Nova Scotia, Island of Newfoundland
12 : Central South-Atlantic (Tristan da Cunha-Trinidad-St Helena-N Ascension)
13 : Brazil-Argentina
14 : Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea
15 : Red Sea
16 : Indian Ocean
17 : Gulf of Thailand, Malaysia-Indonesia-Philippines
18 : Australia (E), Great Barrier Reef, Tasman Sea, New Zealand, New Caledonia
19 : Central Tropical Pacific
20 : Eastern Tropical Pacific (Central America, Galapagos, Northern Peru)
21 : China Seas, Vietnam
22 : Japan Sea, Japan
23 : North West Pacific (Sea of Okhotsk-Kuril Islands-Kamtchatka-Sea of Bering)
24 : North East Pacific (Gulf of Alaska, "P" station, British Columbia)
25 : California-Gulf of California
26 : Chile (sensu lato)
27 : Arctic Ocean

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Razouls C., Desreumaux N., Kouwenberg J. and de Bovée F., 2005-2026. - Biodiversity of Marine Planktonic Copepods (morphology, geographical distribution and biological data). Sorbonne University, CNRS. Available at http://copepodes.obs-banyuls.fr/en [Accessed August 16, 2026]

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