WoRMS taxon details
Urocopia singularis Sars G.O., 1917
356353 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:356353)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Sars, G.O. (1917). Urocopia singularis G.O. Sars, a peculiar semiparasitic copepod from great deeps of the North Atlantic Ocean. <em>Aarbok Bergens Museums.</em> 1916-1917(4): 1-11, pl. 1. [details] 
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Urocopia singularis Sars G.O., 1917. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=356353 on 2025-12-12
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Nomenclature
original description
Sars, G.O. (1917). Urocopia singularis G.O. Sars, a peculiar semiparasitic copepod from great deeps of the North Atlantic Ocean. <em>Aarbok Bergens Museums.</em> 1916-1917(4): 1-11, pl. 1. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Brun, P., M.R. Payne & T. Kiørboe. (2017). A trait database for marine copepods. <em>Earth System Science Data.</em> 9(1):99-113., available online at https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-99-2017 [details] Available for editors 
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context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Heron, G.A. & D.M. Damkaer. (1986). Two species of Urocopia, planktonic poecilostomatoid copepods of the family Urocopidae Humes and Stock, 1972. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 989(1):140-148, figs. 1-4, tabs. 1-2. (15.v.1986) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Heron, G.A. & D.M. Damkaer. (1986). Two species of Urocopia, planktonic poecilostomatoid copepods of the family Urocopidae Humes and Stock, 1972. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 989(1):140-148, figs. 1-4, tabs. 1-2. (15.v.1986) [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Biology in plankton, 600-700 m depth, south of Iceland [details]
Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls/OOB/UPMC/CNRS) Note: Including taxonomic identification plates, remarks, geographic distribution, ecological information & reference list
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (10 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (10 records)
To ITIS
