Harpacticus chelifer
creator: Huys, Rony
creator: Walter, T. Chad
date: 2026-08-25
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Harpacticus chelifer (Müller O.F., 1776)
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2026). World of Copepods Database. Harpacticus chelifer (Müller O.F., 1776). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=116164 on 2026-08-25
created: 2004-12-21T16:54:05Z
modified: 2019-06-13T21:13:58Z
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rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Harpacticus chelifer (Müller O.F., 1776)
class: Copepoda
family: Harpacticidae
genus: Harpacticus
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Baird, W. (1834). List of Entomostraca found in Berwickshire. History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, Edinburgh. 1:95-100, pls. 1-3. [this may have been published in 1836].
name published in: Baird, W. (1850). The Natural History of the British Entomostraca. Ray Society, London. 364 pp, pls. 1-36.
name published in: Gmelin, J.F. (1790). Insecta Lepidoptera - Aptera. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(5). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 2225-3020. : 2225-3020.
name published in: Müller, O.F. (1785). Entomostraca seu Insecta Testacea, quae in aquis Daniae et Norvegiae reperit, descripsit et iconibus illustravit Otho Fridericus Müller. [The Entomostraca or Insecta Testacea, which he finds in the waters of Denmark and Norway, were described and illustrated by icons by Otho Friedrich Müller.]. F.W. Thiele, Lipsiae & Havniae. 134 pp., index, pls. 1-21.
name published in: Philippi, A. (1843). Fernere Beobachtungen uber die Copepoden des Mittelmeeres. [Further observations on the copepods of the Mediterranean.]. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte. 9(1):54-71, pls. 3-4.
name published in: Poppe, S.A. (1884). Ueber die von den Herren Dr. Arthur und Aurel Krause im nördlichen Stillen Ocean und Behringsmeer gesammelten freilebenden Copepoden. [Free-living copepods from the north Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea]. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 50(1): 281-304, pls. 20-24.
name published in: Tilesius, G. (1815). De cancris Camtschaticis, oniscis, entomostracis et cancellis marinis microscopicis noctilucentibus, Cum tabulis IV. Aeneis et appendice adnexo de acaris et ricinis Camtschaticis. [On Camtschatic crabs, onyx, entomostracus, and microscopic nocturnal marine channels, with plates IV. I have attached a bronze and an appendix about mites and Camtschatic ticks]. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg. 5(2): 331–405, pls. 5–8.
name published in year: 1834
name published in year: 1850
name published in year: 1790
name published in year: 1785
name published in year: 1843
name published in year: 1884
name published in year: 1815
order: Harpacticoida
parent name usage ID: 115349
phylum: Arthropoda
scientific name authorship: (Müller O.F., 1776)
specific epithet: chelifer
taxon rank: Species
taxonomic status: accepted