Family TISBIDAE Stebbing, 1910

Museums

Regional Maps

• Marsteiniidae Drzycimski, I. 1969. Harpacticoida (Copepoda) wod morskich okolic Bergen (zachodnie wybrzese norwegii) ich ekologia. Wyzsza Szkola Rolnicza v Szczecinie 17: 1-72.
• Tisbidae Stebbing, T.R.R. 1910. General catalogue of South African Crustacea (Part V of S.A. Crustacea, for the Marine Investigations in South Africa). Annals of the South African Museum 6(4): 281-593, pls 215–222 [544].

  Type genus:

   Tisbe Lilljeborg, 1853.

Introduction

Most species of Tisbidae are phytal or epibenthic (Giere 1993) although there are some species that live commensally with cephalopods (Avdeev 1983) and as ectoparasites on the gills of teleost fish (Huys et al. 1996). Tisbidae occur from the littoral to the deep-sea (Giere 1993).

Two species of Scutellidium are recorded for the Australian fauna.

Database Notes

Key to the genera: Lang, 1965

ID Keys

For key to genera see Boxshall & Halsey (2004).

Diagnosis References

Boxshall, G.A. & Halsey, S.H. 2004. An Introduction to Copepod Diversity. London : The Ray Society 966 pp. [408]

General References

Avdeev, G.V. 1983. New harpacticoid copepods (Tisbidae) parasites of octopuses in the Ross Sea. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 62: 1775-1785

Giere, O. 1993. Meiobenthology. The Microscopic Fauna in Aquatic Sediments. Berlin : Springer-Verlag 328 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.

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