WoRMS taxon details
Heteropsyllus Scott T., 1894
115239 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:115239)
accepted
Genus
Heteropsyllus curticaudatus Scott T., 1894 (type by original designation)
Cletomesochra Sars G.O., 1920 · unaccepted (synonym)
- Species Heteropsyllus celticus Nam & Lee, 2007
- Species Heteropsyllus confluens Soyer, 1974
- Species Heteropsyllus coreanus Nam & Lee, 2006
- Species Heteropsyllus coulli Kornev & Chertoprud, 2008
- Species Heteropsyllus curticaudatus Scott T., 1894
- Species Heteropsyllus exiguus (Sars G.O., 1911)
- Species Heteropsyllus major (Sars G.O., 1920)
- Species Heteropsyllus masculus Kunz, 1971
- Species Heteropsyllus meridionalis Soyer, 1974
- Species Heteropsyllus nanus (Sars G.O., 1920)
- Species Heteropsyllus pseudonunni Coull & Palmer, 1980
- Species Heteropsyllus spiridonovi Novikov & Sharafutdinova, 2021
- Species Heteropsyllus spongiophilus Novikov & Sharafutdinova, 2021
- Species Heteropsyllus dimorphus Por, 1959 accepted as Heteropsyllus major (Sars G.O., 1920) (synonymised by Coull (1975))
- Species Heteropsyllus minutus Wells, 1965 accepted as Bathycamptus minutus (Wells, 1965) (comb.nov.)
- Species Heteropsyllus nunni Coull, 1975 accepted as Coullopsyllus nunni (Coull, 1975)
- Species Heteropsyllus rostratus (Sars G.O., 1920) represented as Heteropsyllus rostratus rostratus (Sars G.O., 1920)
- Species Heteropsyllus serratus Schriever, 1983 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, H. serratus was not transferred to the Hemimesochrinae (Por, 1986) together with all other species of the genus, but no other genus was suggested for it)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Scott, T. (1894). Additions to the fauna of the Firth of Forth. Part VI. <em>Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland.</em> 12(3):231-271, pls. 5-10. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 252 [details]
page(s): 252 [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Heteropsyllus Scott T., 1894. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=115239 on 2025-04-01
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original description
Scott, T. (1894). Additions to the fauna of the Firth of Forth. Part VI. <em>Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland.</em> 12(3):231-271, pls. 5-10. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 252 [details]
original description (of Cletomesochra Sars G.O., 1920) Sars, G.O. (1920). Copepoda Supplement. Parts V & VI. Harpacticoida (continued). <em>An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum, Bergen.</em> 7:53-72, pls. 33-48., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/20705236 [details]
basis of record Huys, R. (2001). Copepoda - Harpacticoida. <em>In: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds.) European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50:268-280. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 252 [details]
original description (of Cletomesochra Sars G.O., 1920) Sars, G.O. (1920). Copepoda Supplement. Parts V & VI. Harpacticoida (continued). <em>An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum, Bergen.</em> 7:53-72, pls. 33-48., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/20705236 [details]
basis of record Huys, R. (2001). Copepoda - Harpacticoida. <em>In: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds.) European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50:268-280. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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identification resource
Coull, B.C. & M.A. Palmer. (1980). Heteropsyllus (Copepoda, Harpacticoida): a revised key, including a new species from Chesapeake Bay. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 99(3):303-309, figs. 1-2, tab. 1. (27-viii-1980). [details] Available for editors [request]
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Novikov, A.A. & D.N. Sharafutdinova. (2021). Revision of the genus Heteropsyllus (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) with description of a new species from the Laptev Sea and establishment of new genus. <em>Arthropoda Selecta.</em> 30(3):405-421. Sep 2021., available online at https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.3.12 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bodin, P. (1997). Catalogue of the new marine Harpacticoid Copepods. <em>Studiedocumenten van het K.B.I.N. = Documents de Travail de l'I.R.Sc.N.B., 89. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium.</em> 89: 1-304. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 252 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Bodin, P. (1997). Catalogue of the new marine Harpacticoid Copepods. <em>Studiedocumenten van het K.B.I.N. = Documents de Travail de l'I.R.Sc.N.B., 89. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium.</em> 89: 1-304. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 252 [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
