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Table 2 Average abundance, relative abundance, and occurrence of the 20 most common copepod species in the waters southwest of Taiwan

From: Water mass transport through the northern Bashi Channel in the northeastern South China Sea affects copepod assemblages of the Luzon Strait

Species

Abundance

RA

OR

Acrocalanus gracilis

3,300 ± 1,215

22.07

100

Paracalanus aculeatus

2,073 ± 716

13.87

93

Oncaea venusta

1,638 ± 441

10.96

80

Undinula vulgaris

894 ± 378

5.98

73

Clausocalanus paululus

787 ± 262

5.26

73

Acartia negligens

540 ± 166

3.61

87

Farranula gibbula

423 ± 120

2.83

87

Lucicutia flavicornis

391 ± 224

2.62

33

Cosmocalanus darwinii

374 ± 216

2.50

40

Temora discaudata

354 ± 118

2.37

80

Acrocalanus gibber

325 ± 104

2.17

73

Clausocalanus furcatus

306 ± 100

2.05

73

Canthocalanus pauper

305 ± 220

2.04

53

Eucalanus subcrassus

253 ± 91

1.69

67

Calanopia elliptica

203 ± 60

1.36

80

Sapphirina intestinata

182 ± 182

1.22

7

Corycaeus (D.) erythraeus

155 ± 51

1.04

67

Calanopia minor

154 ± 74

1.03

47

Copilia mirabilis

152 ± 67

1.02

60

Temora turbinata

146 ± 108

0.98

27

Other copepods (58)

1,993 ± 1,034

13.35

-

Total

14,950 ± 2,947

100

-

  1. Taiwan average abundance (mean ± SE, ind./100m3), relative abundance (RA, %), and occurrence (OR, %) of the 20 most common copepod species in the waters southwest of Taiwan during the cruise of 1 to 3 October 1996.