WoRMS taxon details
Amphiascoides atopus Lotufo & Fleeger, 1995
348699 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:348699)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2026). World of Copepods Database. Amphiascoides atopus Lotufo & Fleeger, 1995. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=348699 on 2026-08-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Lotufo, G.R. & J.W. Fleeger. (1995). Description of Amphiascoides atopus, a new species (Crustacea: Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from a mass culture system. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108(1):117-124. [details] Available for editors 
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additional source
Easton, E.E., E.M. Darrow, T. Spears & D. Thistle. (2014). The mitochondrial genomes of Amphiascoides atopus and Schizopera knabeni (Harpacticoida: Miraciidae) reveal similarities between the copepod orders Harpacticoida and Poecilostomatoida. <em>Gene.</em> 538(1): 123-137., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2013.12.053 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Puello-Cruz, A.C., S. Gomez, F.N. Morales-Serna, P.M. Rodriguez-Valenzuela & E.A. Pelayo-Romero. (2014). Optimal conditions for the culture of Amphiascoides atopus (Harpacticoida: Miraciidae) from Mazatlan, Sinaloa State, Mexico. Proceedings Of The Biological Society Of Washington, 127(1):78-86. JUL 9 2014, available online at https://doi.org/10.2988/0006-324x-127.1.78 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Cardenas, J., R. Gavino, E. Garcia-Rios, L. Rios-Ruiz, A.C. Puello-Cruz, F.N. Morales-Serna, S. Gomez, A. Lopez-Torres & J.A. Morales-Serna. (2021). The Heck reaction of allylic alcohols catalysed by an N-heterocyclic carbene-Pd(ii) complex and toxicity of the ligand precursor for the marine benthic copepod Amphiascoides atopus. <em>RSC Advances.</em> 11(33):20278-20284. JUN 2021., available online at https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ra03484g [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Llera-Herrera, R., B. Yáñez-Rivera, G. Chavez-Salgado, A. García-Bernal & S. Gómez. (2025). Multiple Displace Amplification (MDA) enrichment is a fast procedure for the genomic characterization of single harpacticoid copepods. <em>Plankton & Benthos Research, 15th International Conference on Copepoda.</em> 20(Spec. Iss.):s40–s45. Sep 2025., available online at https://doi.org/10.3800/pbr.20.s40 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source García-Bernal, A., J.A. Vargas-Abúndez, R. Llera-Herrera, I.S. Racotta & C. Rosas. (2026). Metabolic rate and tolerance to hypoxia in the harpacticoid copepod Amphiascoides atopus. <em>Journal Of Experimental Marine Biology And Ecology.</em> 594:1-16. 152151 online Nov 2025., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2025.152151 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Puello-Cruz, A.C., S. Gomez, F.N. Morales-Serna, P.M. Rodriguez-Valenzuela & E.A. Pelayo-Romero. (2014). Optimal conditions for the culture of Amphiascoides atopus (Harpacticoida: Miraciidae) from Mazatlan, Sinaloa State, Mexico. Proceedings Of The Biological Society Of Washington, 127(1):78-86. JUL 9 2014, available online at https://doi.org/10.2988/0006-324x-127.1.78 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Cardenas, J., R. Gavino, E. Garcia-Rios, L. Rios-Ruiz, A.C. Puello-Cruz, F.N. Morales-Serna, S. Gomez, A. Lopez-Torres & J.A. Morales-Serna. (2021). The Heck reaction of allylic alcohols catalysed by an N-heterocyclic carbene-Pd(ii) complex and toxicity of the ligand precursor for the marine benthic copepod Amphiascoides atopus. <em>RSC Advances.</em> 11(33):20278-20284. JUN 2021., available online at https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ra03484g [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Llera-Herrera, R., B. Yáñez-Rivera, G. Chavez-Salgado, A. García-Bernal & S. Gómez. (2025). Multiple Displace Amplification (MDA) enrichment is a fast procedure for the genomic characterization of single harpacticoid copepods. <em>Plankton & Benthos Research, 15th International Conference on Copepoda.</em> 20(Spec. Iss.):s40–s45. Sep 2025., available online at https://doi.org/10.3800/pbr.20.s40 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source García-Bernal, A., J.A. Vargas-Abúndez, R. Llera-Herrera, I.S. Racotta & C. Rosas. (2026). Metabolic rate and tolerance to hypoxia in the harpacticoid copepod Amphiascoides atopus. <em>Journal Of Experimental Marine Biology And Ecology.</em> 594:1-16. 152151 online Nov 2025., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2025.152151 [details] Available for editors
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To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Amphiascoides atopus)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 26 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (6 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 259892)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Amphiascoides atopus)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 26 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (6 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 259892)
To ITIS
