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Wellsopsyllus Kunz, 1981 
AphiaID: 150083

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Maxillopoda (Class) > Copepoda (Subclass) > Neocopepoda (Infraclass) > Podoplea (Superorder) > Harpacticoida (Order) > Paramesochridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Paramesochra gigas Wells, 1965 (type by original designation)
Parent Paramesochridae Lang, 1944
Sources  original description: Kunz, H. 1981. Beitrag zur Systematik der Paramesochridae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) mit Beschreibung einiger neuen Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum zu Kiel 1(8):2-33, figs. 1-19, tabs. 1-5. (xii-1981, English summary) [details]

basis of record: Belgian Continental Shelf Copepoda (look up in IMIS) [details]

source of synonymy: Wittoeck, Jan (look up in IMIS) [details]

status source: Huys, R. 2009. Unresolved cases of type fixation, synonymy and homonymy in harpacticoid copepod nomenclature (Crustacea: Copepoda). Zootaxa 2183:1-99., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/2/zt02183p099.pdf [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Subgenus Wellsopsyllus (Intermediopsyllus) Huys, 2009
  » Species Wellsopsyllus (Intermediopsyllus) intermedius (Scott T. & A., 1895)
» Species Wellsopsyllus (Intermediopsyllus) minutus (Nicholls, 1939)
» Species Wellsopsyllus (Intermediopsyllus) smirnovi (Kunz, 1992)
Subgenus Wellsopsyllus (Scottopsyllus) Apostolov & Marinov, 1988
  » Species Wellsopsyllus (Scottopsyllus) depressus (Kornev & Chertoprud, 2008)
» Species Wellsopsyllus (Scottopsyllus) herdmani (Thompson & Scott, 1900)
» Species Wellsopsyllus (Scottopsyllus) langi (Mielke, 1984)
» Species Wellsopsyllus (Scottopsyllus) minor (Scott T. & A., 1895)
» Species Wellsopsyllus (Scottopsyllus) pararobertsoni (Lang, 1965)
» Species Wellsopsyllus (Scottopsyllus) praecipuus (Veit-Köhler, 2000)
» Species Wellsopsyllus (Scottopsyllus) robertsoni (Scott T. & A., 1895)
Subgenus Wellsopsyllus (Wellsopsyllus) Kunz, 1981
  » Species Wellsopsyllus (Wellsopsyllus) abyssalis (Becker, 1979)
» Species Wellsopsyllus (Wellsopsyllus) antarcticus Kottmann, Kihara, Glatzel & Veit-Koehler, 2013
» Species Wellsopsyllus (Wellsopsyllus) gigas (Wells, 1965)
» Species Wellsopsyllus (Wellsopsyllus) runtzi (Soyer, 1975)

Species Wellsopsyllus gigas (Wells, 1965) accepted as Wellsopsyllus (Wellsopsyllus) gigas (Wells, 1965)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:150083
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-04-01 10:30:46Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-08-06 13:32:15Z  changed  Walter, T. Chad
2010-10-19 18:55:58Z  changed  Boxshall, Geoff
2013-04-23 08:55:00Z  changed  Boxshall, Geoff
  
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  Citation: Boxshall, G.; Walter, T. Chad (2013). Wellsopsyllus Kunz, 1981. In: Walter, T.C. & Boxshall, G. (2013). World of Copepods database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=150083 on 2013-05-23
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