Tropocyclops
Encyclopedia
Tropocyclops is a genus
of copepod
crustacean
s in the family
Cyclopidae
. It 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 contains the following species:
- Tropocyclops affinis (G. O. Sars, 1863)
- Tropocyclops bopingi Dumont, 2006
- Tropocyclops breviramus Hsiao, 1950
- Tropocyclops brevis Dussart, 1972
- Tropocyclops brevispinus Shen & Tai, 1962
- Tropocyclops candidiusi (Harada, 1931)
- Tropocyclops chinei Dang, 1967
- Tropocyclops confinis (Kiefer, 1930)
- Tropocyclops extensus Kiefer, 1931
- Tropocyclops federensisTropocyclops federensisTropocyclops federensis is a species of crustacean in the family Cyclopidae. It is endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes.-Source:* Reid, J.W. 1996. . Downloaded on 10 August 2007....
Reid, 1991 - Tropocyclops frequens Kiefer, 1931
- Tropocyclops ishidai Lee & Chang, 2007
- Tropocyclops jamaicensis Reid & Janetzky, 1996
- Tropocyclops jerseyensis Kiefer, 1931
- Tropocyclops levequi Dumont, 1981
- Tropocyclops longiabdominalis Shen & Tai, 1962
- Tropocyclops matanoensis Defaye, 2007
- Tropocyclops mellanbyi Onabamiro, 1952
- Tropocyclops miser (Brehm, 1953)
- Tropocyclops nananaeTropocyclops nananaeTropocyclops nananae is a species of crustacean in the family Cyclopidae. It is endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitats are swamps, freshwater lakes, and freshwater marshes.-Source:* Reid, J.W. 1996. . Downloaded on 10 August 2007....
Reid, 1991 - Tropocyclops nigroviridis Harada, 1931
- Tropocyclops onabamiroi Lindberg, 1950
- Tropocyclops parvus Kiefer, 1931
- Tropocyclops piscinalis Dussart, 1984
- Tropocyclops polkianus Einsle, 1971
- Tropocyclops prasinus (Fischer, 1860)
- Tropocyclops pseudoparvus Dussart & Fernando, 1986
- Tropocyclops rarus Dussart, 1983
- Tropocyclops schubarti Kiefer, 1935
- Tropocyclops setulifer Lee & Chang, 2007
- Tropocyclops tenellus (G. O. Sars, 1909)
- Tropocyclops varicoides (Brady, 1908)