Family LONGIPEDIIDAE Boeck, 1865

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• Longipedina Boeck, A. 1865. Oversigt over de ved Norges Kyster jagttagne Copepoder henhörende til Calanidernes, Cyclopidernes og Harpactidernes Familier. Bulletin of the Mauritius Institute 1864: 226-282 [252].

  Type genus:

   Longipedia Claus, 1863.
• Longipediinae Brady, G.S. 1880. A Monograph of the Free and Semi-parasitic Copepoda of the British Islands. London : The Ray Society Vol. 2 182 pp. [4].

  Secondary source:

   Lang, K. 1948. Monographie der Harpacticiden. Lund, Sweden : Håkan Ohlssons Boktrycheri 1682 pp. [152].
• Longipediidae Sars, G.O. 1903. Copepoda. Harpacticoida. Part I & Part II. Misophriidae, Longipediidae, Cerviniidae, Ectinosomatidae (part). pp. 1-28 in Sars, G.O. (ed.). An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen : Bergen Museum Vol. V 489 pp. [8].

  Secondary source:

   Lang, K. 1948. Monographie der Harpacticiden. Lund, Sweden : Håkan Ohlssons Boktrycheri 1682 pp. [152].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Huys, R., Gee, J.M., Moore, C.G. & Hamond, R. 1996. Marine and Brackish Water Harpacticoid Copepods. Shrewsbury : Field Studies Council Vol. 1 352 pp. [116]

Introduction

Past authorship of the Longipediidae has been attributed to Sars, 1903 (Lang 1948; Bodin 1997) and Brady, 1880 (Huys & Boxshall 1991; Huys et al. 1996). However, Boeck (1865) in his diagnosis of Longipediidae (which he established as one of the eight 'Afdelinger' within the family Harpactidae), clearly intended to regard Longipedia as the type of a new subfamily (p. 252). Today, 'Afdeling', would be regarded as a family-group name, probably of the rank of subtribe (with suffix -ina). In accordance with the Principle of Coordination applied to family-group names (ICZN Art. 36.1) Boeck (1865) should be considered as the authority of the family Longipediidae as authorship and date remain unchanged at every rank. Longipediidae is a monogeneric family with 11 species world-wide. One genus and two species are recorded for the Australian fauna.

Database Notes

Family namy incorrectly attributed to Sars, 1903 by Lang, 1948 and Bodin, 1997.

Diagnosis References

Huys, R., Gee, J.M., Moore, C.G. & Hamond, R. 1996. Marine and Brackish Water Harpacticoid Copepods. Shrewsbury : Field Studies Council Vol. 1 352 pp. [116]

General References

Bodin, P. 1997. Catalogue of the new marine harpacticoids. pp. 1-304 in Bodin, P. (ed.). Documents de Travail de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Brussels : L'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique 304 pp.

Boeck, A. 1865. Oversigt over de ved Norges Kyster jagttagne Copepoder henhörende til Calanidernes, Cyclopidernes og Harpactidernes Familier. Bulletin of the Mauritius Institute 1864: 226-282

Boxshall, G.A. & Halsey, S.H. 2004. An Introduction to Copepod Diversity. London : The Ray Society 966 pp.

Brady, G.S. 1880. A Monograph of the Free and Semi-parasitic Copepoda of the British Islands. London : The Ray Society Vol. 2 182 pp.

Huys, R., Gee, J.M., Moore, C.G. & Hamond, R. 1996. Marine and Brackish Water Harpacticoid Copepods. Shrewsbury : Field Studies Council Vol. 1 352 pp.

Lang, K. 1948. Monographie der Harpacticiden. Lund, Sweden : Håkan Ohlssons Boktrycheri 1682 pp.

Sars, G.O. 1903. Copepoda. Harpacticoida. Part I & Part II. Misophriidae, Longipediidae, Cerviniidae, Ectinosomatidae (part). pp. 1-28 in Sars, G.O. (ed.). An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen : Bergen Museum Vol. V 489 pp.

Wells, J.B.J. 1980. A revision of the genus Longipedia Claus (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 70: 103-189

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