Xanthocalanus kurilensis is a species of pelagic copepod, which was first described in 1950 by the Russian zoologist, Konstantin Abramovich Brodsky.Brodsky, K. A. (1950). Veslonogie rachki (Calanoida) dalnevostochnykh morei SSSR i pol’yarnogo basseina.[Calanoida of the far-eastern seas and polar basin of the USSR. ]. Opredeliteli Po Faune SSSR, Nauka, Leningrad, 35:1–442, figs. 1–306. (Russian).[English translation: "Calanoida of the Far Eastern Seas and Polar Basin of the USSR" (Brodsky, 1967).
It was described from a specimen taken in the seas of the Kuril Islands (kurilensis).This the meaning of the species epithet, ''kurilensis'' It has also been found in the seas off the Korean Peninsula.
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