Acanthocyclops
Encyclopedia
Acanthocyclops is a genus
of copepod
crustacean
s in the family
Cyclopidae
. It was originally described by Friedrich Kiefer
as a subgenus
of Cyclops
, and contains the following species:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of copepod
Copepod
Copepods are a group of small crustaceans found in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat. Some species are planktonic , some are benthic , and some continental species may live in limno-terrestrial habitats and other wet terrestrial places, such as swamps, under leaf fall in wet forests,...
crustacean
Crustacean
Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...
s in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Cyclopidae
Cyclopidae
Cyclopidae is a family of copepods. It contains more than half of the 1,200 species in the order Cyclopoida in over 70 genera.-Genera:The following genera are accepted as valid:*Abdiacyclops Karanovic, 2005*Acanthocyclops Kiefer, 1927...
. It was originally described by Friedrich Kiefer
Friedrich Kiefer
Professor Friedrich Kiefer was a German zoologist, specialising in freshwater copepods. For over 60 years, he was "the preeminent morphological taxonomist of continental free-living copepods"....
as a subgenus
Subgenus
In biology, a subgenus is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.In zoology, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between the generic name and the specific epithet: e.g. the Tiger Cowry of the Indo-Pacific, Cypraea tigris Linnaeus, which...
of Cyclops
Cyclops (genus)
Cyclops is one of the most common genera of freshwater copepods, comprising over 400 species . The name Cyclops comes from the Cyclops of Greek mythology which shares the quality of having a single large eye, which may be either red or black in Cyclops.Cyclops individuals may range from...
, and contains the following species:
- Acanthocyclops abyssicola (Lilljeborg, 1901)
- Acanthocyclops agamus Kiefer, 1938
- Acanthocyclops alticola (Kiefer, 1935)
- Acanthocyclops americanus (Marsh, 1893)
- Acanthocyclops arenosus Mazepova, 1950
- Acanthocyclops balcanicus Naidenov & Pandourski, 1992
- Acanthocyclops biarticulatus Monchenko, 1972
- Acanthocyclops bicuspidatus (Claus, 1857)
- Acanthocyclops bisetosus (Rehberg, 1880)
- Acanthocyclops brachypus (Kiefer, 1955)
- Acanthocyclops brevispinosus (Herrick, 1884)
- Acanthocyclops caesariatus Mercado-Salas & Suárez-Morales, 2009
- Acanthocyclops capillatus (Sars, 1863)
- Acanthocyclops carolinianus (Yeatman, 1944)
- Acanthocyclops cephallenus Pesce, 1978
- Acanthocyclops chappuisi (Naidenov & Pandourski, 1992)
- Acanthocyclops columbiensis Reid, 1990
- Acanthocyclops crassicaudis (Sars, 1863)
- Acanthocyclops crassicaudoides (Kiefer, 1928)
- Acanthocyclops crinitus (Graeter, 1910)
- Acanthocyclops deminutus (Sterba, 1954)
- Acanthocyclops denticornis Chislenko, 1977
- Acanthocyclops dussarti Pesce & Maggi, 1977
- Acanthocyclops einslei Mirabdullayev & Defaye, 2004
- Acanthocyclops ekmani Lindberg, 1950
- Acanthocyclops elegans Mazepova, 1962
- Acanthocyclops exilis (Coker, 1934)
- Acanthocyclops fonticulus Lee & Chang, 2007
- Acanthocyclops fontinalis Naidenov, 1969
- Acanthocyclops formosanus Harada, 1931
- Acanthocyclops galbinus Mazepova, 1962
- Acanthocyclops gigas (Claus, 1857)
- Acanthocyclops gmeineri Pospisil, 1989
- Acanthocyclops gordani Petkovski, 1971
- Acanthocyclops hispanicus Kiefer, 1937
- Acanthocyclops hypogeusAcanthocyclops hypogeusAcanthocyclops hypogeus is a species of copepod in the family Cyclopidae. It is endemic to Slovenia....
(Kiefer, 1930) - Acanthocyclops improcerus Mazepova, 1950
- Acanthocyclops incolotaenia Mazepova, 1950
- Acanthocyclops insectus (Forbes, 1882)
- Acanthocyclops intermedius Mazepova, 1952
- Acanthocyclops iskrecensis Pandourski, 1992
- Acanthocyclops jasnitskii Mazepova, 1950
- Acanthocyclops jeanneli (Chappuis, 1929)
- Acanthocyclops kagaensis ItoTak, 1964
- Acanthocyclops kieferi (Chappuis, 1925)
- Acanthocyclops konstantini Mazepova, 1962
- Acanthocyclops languidoides (Lilljeborg, 1901)
- Acanthocyclops languidus (Sars, 1863)
- Acanthocyclops latipes (Lowndes, 1927)
- Acanthocyclops lobulosus (Ekman, 1905)
- Acanthocyclops longifurcus Shen & Sung, 1963
- Acanthocyclops macedonicus (Petkovski, 1954)
- Acanthocyclops magnus (Marsh, 1920)
- Acanthocyclops marceloi Mercado-Salas & Suárez-Morales, 2009
- Acanthocyclops michaelseni (Mrázek, 1901)
- Acanthocyclops milotai Iepure & Defaye, 2008
- Acanthocyclops mirnyi Borutsky & Vinogradov, 1957
- Acanthocyclops miurai ItoTak, 1957
- Acanthocyclops montana Reid & Reed, 1991
- Acanthocyclops morimotoi ItoTak, 1952
- Acanthocyclops muscicola (Lastochkin, 1924)
- Acanthocyclops nanus (Sars, 1863)
- Acanthocyclops niceae Mann, 1940
- Acanthocyclops notabilis Mazepova, 1950
- Acanthocyclops orientalis Borutsky, 1966
- Acanthocyclops parasensitivus Reid, 1998
- Acanthocyclops parcus (Herrick, 1882)
- Acanthocyclops parvulus Strayer, 1989
- Acanthocyclops pennaki Reid, 1992
- Acanthocyclops petkovskii Pesce & Lattinger, 1983
- Acanthocyclops phreaticus (Chappuis, 1928)
- Acanthocyclops pilosus Kiefer, 1934
- Acanthocyclops plattensis Pennak & Ward, 1985
- Acanthocyclops plesai Iepure, 2001
- Acanthocyclops profundus Mazepova, 1950
- Acanthocyclops propinquus Plesa, 1957
- Acanthocyclops radevi Pandourski, 1993
- Acanthocyclops rebecae Fiers, Ghenne & Suárez-Morales, 2000
- Acanthocyclops reductus (Chappuis, 1925)
- Acanthocyclops rhenanus Kiefer, 1936
- Acanthocyclops robustus (Sars, 1863)
- Acanthocyclops rupestris Mazepova, 1950
- Acanthocyclops sambugarae Kiefer, 1981
- Acanthocyclops sensitivus (Graeter & Chappuis, 1914)
- Acanthocyclops serrani Braicovich & Timi, 2009
- Acanthocyclops signifer Mazepova, 1952
- Acanthocyclops similis Flössner, 1984
- Acanthocyclops skottsbergi Lindberg, 1949
- Acanthocyclops smithae Reid & Suárez-Morales, 1999
- Acanthocyclops spongicola Mazepova, 1962
- Acanthocyclops stammeri Kiefer, 1931
- Acanthocyclops strimonis (Pandourski, 1994)
- Acanthocyclops stygius (Chappuis, 1924)
- Acanthocyclops talievi Mazepova, 1970
- Acanthocyclops tenuispinalis Shen & Sung, 1963
- Acanthocyclops thomasi (Forbes, 1882)
- Acanthocyclops tokchokensis Kim & Chang, 1991
- Acanthocyclops trajani Mirabdullayev & Defaye, 2004
- Acanthocyclops troglophilus (Kiefer, 1932)
- Acanthocyclops venustoides (Coker, 1934)
- Acanthocyclops venustus (Norman & Scott, 1906)
- Acanthocyclops vernalis (Fischer, 1853)
- Acanthocyclops versutus Mazepova, 1961
- Acanthocyclops viridis (Jurine, 1820)