Lucicutia flavicornis (Claus 1863)

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Lucicutia flavicornis is a species of copepods in the family Lucicutiidae. They are omnivore-herbivores. Individuals can grow to 2.5 mm. They are broadcast spawners. They rely on drag powered swimming to move around.

URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/omnivoreHerbivore
Definition: An omnivorous animal that usually or preferentially feeds on plants

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URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/broadcastSpawner
Definition: Broadcast spawners scatter their eggs into the water; they spawn numerous small eggs that develop rapidly.
Attribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn_(biology)#Crustaceans

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URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/drag_based_swimming
Definition: Drag swimmers use a cyclic motion where they push water back in a power stroke, and return their limb forward in the return or recovery stroke. When they push water directly backwards, this moves their body forward, but as they return their limbs to the starting position, they push water forward, which will thus pull them back to some degree, and so opposes the direction that the body is heading. This opposing force is called drag. The return-stroke drag causes drag swimmers to employ different strategies than lift swimmers. Reducing drag on the return stroke is essential for optimizing efficiency.

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EOL has data for 28 attributes, including:

Body symmetry
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
- Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry
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bilaterally symmetric
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
- Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
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body length
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CMO_0000013
- Definition: A measurement of the longest dimension of a body, typically between two distinct ends of the body.
- Attribution: [database_cross_reference: Dorland:Dorlands_Illustrated_Medical_Dictionary--31st_Ed] [database_cross_reference: ISBN:978-1416049982]
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1.7 mm
carbon biomass
- URI: http://purl.dataone.org/odo/ECSO_00001143
- Definition: The amount of carbon present in biomass
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16.3 µg
diel vertical migration
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/dielVerticalMigration
- Definition: A pattern of movement used by some organisms, such as Copepods, living in the ocean and in lakes. The migration occurs when organisms move up to the epipelagic zone at night and return to the mesopelagic zone of the oceans or to the hypolimnion zone of lakes during the day
- Attribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diel_vertical_migration
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decreased quality
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0002301
- Definition: A quality that has a value that is decreased compared to normal or average
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dry body mass
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/bodyMassDry
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65.3 µg
ecomorphological guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/EcomorphologicalGuild
- Definition: organisms that share certain morphological traits due to adaptation to similar environments and ecological roles
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planktonic
- URI: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/Plankton
- Definition: Living in the fluid medium (water or air) but unable to maintain their position or distribution independently of the movement of the water/air mass (adapted from Lincoln et al., 1998).
- Attribution: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/wiki/Traits:Plankton
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geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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Kenya
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/192950
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habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
- Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x
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bathypelagic zone
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000211
- Definition: The one of an ocean below the 10degC thermocline down to a temperature of 4degC.
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locomotion
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0040011
- Definition: Self-propelled movement of a cell or organism from one location to another.
- Attribution: [database_cross_reference: GOC:dgh]
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drag powered swimming
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/drag_based_swimming
- Definition: Drag swimmers use a cyclic motion where they push water back in a power stroke, and return their limb forward in the return or recovery stroke. When they push water directly backwards, this moves their body forward, but as they return their limbs to the starting position, they push water forward, which will thus pull them back to some degree, and so opposes the direction that the body is heading. This opposing force is called drag. The return-stroke drag causes drag swimmers to employ different strategies than lift swimmers. Reducing drag on the return stroke is essential for optimizing efficiency.
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parental care
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0060746
- Definition: A reproductive behavior in which a parent cares for and rears offspring.
- Comment: [database_cross_reference: GOC:dph]
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broadcast spawner
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/broadcastSpawner
- Definition: Broadcast spawners scatter their eggs into the water; they spawn numerous small eggs that develop rapidly.
- Attribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn_(biology)#Crustaceans
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trophic guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicGuild
- Definition: A group of species that exploit the same food resources, and/or use the same feeding or foraging methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_(ecology)
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phytoplanktivore
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/phytoplanktivore
- Definition: A herbivorous organism feeding primarily on phytoplankton
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zooplankton feeding mode
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/ZooplanktonFeedingMode
- Definition: behavior by which zooplankton obtain food; ambush, feeding current, or cruising. (Barton, AD, Pershing, AJ, Litchman, E, Record, NR, Edwards, KF, Finkel, ZV, Kiørboe, T, Ward, BA. 2013. The biogeography of marine plankton traits. Ecology Letters (2013) 16: 522–534. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12063)
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filter feeder
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1252491
- Definition: a sub-group of suspension feeding animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing the water over a specialized filtering structure
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Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Lucicutia flavicornis (Claus 1863). View this species on GBIF

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