Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Hexanauplia
Subclassis: Copepoda
Infraclasses (2): Neocopepoda - Progymnoplea

References

• Boxshall, G.A.; Halsey, S.H. 2004: An introduction to copepod diversity. Ray Society monographs, (166). 2 vols.

• Boxshall, G.A., O'Reilly, M., Sikorski, A. & Summerfield, R. 2015. A new genus and family of copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda) parasitic on polychaetes of the genus Jasmineira Langerhans, 1880 (family Sabellidae) in the northeastern Atlantic. Zootaxa 4018(3): 426–436. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.3.6. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

• Brady, G.S. 1883. Report on the Copepoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76. Reports of Science Research Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger. Zoology 8(23): 1–142. BHL.Reference page. 

• Cheng, Y-R., Mayfield, A.B., Meng, P-J., Dai, C-F. & Huys, R. 2016. Copepods associated with scleractinian corals: a worldwide checklist and a case study of their impact on the reef-building coral Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Pocilloporidae). In Huys (ed.), Recent Developments in Systematics and Biodiversity of Symbiotic Copepoda (Crustacea)—A Volume in Celebration of the Career of Prof. Il-Hoi Kim. Zootaxa 4174(1): 291–345. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4174.1.20. Reference page. 

• Chertoprud, E.S., Sinev, A.Y. & Dimante-Deimantovica, I. 2017. Fauna of Cladocera and Copepoda from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (China). Zootaxa 4258(6): 561–573. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4258.6.5. Reference page. 

• Corgosinho, P.H.C., Holynska, M., Marrone, F., Geraldes-Primeiro, L.J. de O., dos Santos-Silva,, E.N., Perbiche-Neves, G. & Lopez, C. 2019. An annotated checklist of freshwater Copepoda (Crustacea, Hexanauplia) from continental Ecuador and the Galapagos Archipelago. Zookeys, 871: 55–77. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.871.36880 Reference page. 

• Huys, R. 2016. Recent Developments in Systematics and Biodiversity of Symbiotic Copepoda (Crustacea)—A Volume in Celebration of the Career of Prof. Il-Hoi Kim. Zootaxa 4174(1): 1–729. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4174.1.1. ISBN 978-1-77557-530-6 (paperback); ISBN 978-1-77557-555-9 (Online edition) Title page (PDF); Table of contents (PDF); Introduction (PDF) Reference page. 
• Jones, J.B. 1988: Zoogeography of parasitic Copepoda of the New Zealand region. Hydrobiologia, 167-168: 623–627.

• Kim, I.-h. et al. 2013: Copepods associated with polychaete worms in European seas. Zootaxa 3651(1): 1–62. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3651.1.1 Reference page. 
• Kuang, P.R.; Qian, J.H. 1983: The distribution of parasitic Copepoda in Yunnan, China, with descriptions of four new species. Acta zootaxonomica sinica, 8(4): 354–365. Abstract and full article (PDF)

• May-Tec, A.L., Baños-Ojeda, C. & Mendoza-Franco, E.F. 2022. Parasitic crustaceans (Branchiura and Copepoda) parasitizing the gills of puffer fish species (Tetraodontidae) from the coast of Campeche, Gulf of Mexico. Zookeys 1089ː 73–92. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1089.79999 Reference page. 
• Neptalí Morales-Serna, F.; Gómez, S.; Pérez-Ponce de León, G. 2012: Parasitic copepods reported from Mexico. Zootaxa, 3234: 43–68. Preview

• Novichkova, A. 2016. The first data on the freshwater microcrustaceans of Shokalsky Island (Russian Arctic). Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e10930. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e10930. Reference page. 
• Tang, D.; KALMAN PASSARELLI, J. (eds.) 2012: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Symbiotic Copepoda. Zoosymposia, 8

Vernacular names

Links

• Copepoda in the World of Copepods

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