Family TETRAGONICIPITIDAE Lang, 1944

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tetragonicipitidae Lang, K. 1944. Monographie der Harpacticiden (vorläufige Mitteilung). Sweden : Uppsala 39 pp. [27].

  Secondary source:

   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. [144].
• Pteropsyllidae Nicholls, A.G. 1944. Littoral Copepoda from the Red Sea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11(11): 487-503 [492].

  Type genus:

   Tetragoniceps Brady, 1880.

  Secondary source:

   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. [144].

Introduction

Members of this speciose family have elongate, cylindrical or fusiform bodies and are generally found in shallow water marine sediments (Boxshall & Halsey 2004).

Two species are listed for Australia, one of which, Phyllopodopsyllus wellsi Karanovic, Pesce & Humphreys, 2001, was described recently from Australian anchialine groundwaters.

Diagnosis

See Boxshall & Halsey (2004)

ID Keys

see Boxshall & Halsey (2004).

Diagnosis References

Boxshall, G.A. & Halsey, S.H. 2004. An Introduction to Copepod Diversity. London : The Ray Society 966 pp. [394]

General References

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

Karanovic, T., Pesce, G.L. & Humphreys, W.F. 2001. Copepods from ground waters of Western Australia, V. Phyllopsyllus wellsi sp. nov. (Crustacea: Copepoda: Harpacticoida) with a key to world species. Records of the Western Australian Museum 20: 333-344

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