Copepoda taxon details
Diarthrodes pygmaeus (Scott T. & Scott A., 1895)
116577 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:116577)
accepted
Species
Parawestwoodia pygmaea (Scott T. & Scott A., 1895) · unaccepted (synonym)
Pseudothalestris pygmaea (Scott T. & Scott A., 1895) · unaccepted (synonym)
Pseudowestwoodia pygmaea Scott T. & Scott A., 1895 · unaccepted (synonym)
Westwoodia pygmaea (Scott T. & Scott A., 1895) · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Pseudowestwoodia pygmaea Scott T. & Scott A., 1895) Scott, T. & A. Scott. (1895). VII. On some new and rare Crustacea from Scotland. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 6(15): 50-59, pls. 5-6. (JAn 1895)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19265214 [details] 
Distribution European and North American Atlantic coasts, Tenerife, Canaries, Indian Ocean, and Brazil
Distribution European and North American Atlantic coasts, Tenerife, Canaries, Indian Ocean, and Brazil [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Diarthrodes pygmaeus (Scott T. & Scott A., 1895). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=116577 on 2025-05-02
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(of Pseudowestwoodia pygmaea Scott T. & Scott A., 1895) Scott, T. & A. Scott. (1895). VII. On some new and rare Crustacea from Scotland. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 6(15): 50-59, pls. 5-6. (JAn 1895)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19265214 [details]
basis of record Huys, R. (2001). Copepoda - Harpacticoida. <em>In: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds.) European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50:268-280. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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additional source Lang, K. (1948). Monographie der Harpacticiden. Vol. 1 [Monographs of the Harpacticites. Vol. 1]. <em>Hakan Ohlsson's Boktryckeri, Lund; reprinted Nordiska Bokhandeln, Stockholm.</em> 1:1-896, figs. 1-361. (reprinted 1976). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Apostolov, A. & T.M. Marinov. (1988). Copepoda Harpacticoida (morski kharpaktikoidi). [Copepoda, Harpacticoida (marine harpacticoids).]. <em>Fauna Bulgarica, Fauna Bolgarii. Izd. B'lg. Akad. Nauk, in Aedibus Academiae Scientiarum Bulgaricae, Sofia. Scient. Bulgaricae, Sofia.</em> 18:1-384. (Bulgarian.). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Mordukhai-Boltovskoy, F.D., ed. (1969). Rakoobraznye. (Crustacea). Opredetel' fauny Chernogo i Azovskogo more, 2. Svobodnozhivushchie bespozvonochnye. [Crustacea. Identification key to the fauna of the Black and Azov Seas, 2. Freeliving invertebrates.]. <em>Institut Biologii Yuzh'nykh Morei, Akademiya Nauk USSR, Naukova Dumka, Kiev.</em> 536 pp. (In Russian.). [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Huys, R. (2001). Copepoda - Harpacticoida. <em>In: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds.) European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50:268-280. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lang, K. (1948). Monographie der Harpacticiden. Vol. 1 [Monographs of the Harpacticites. Vol. 1]. <em>Hakan Ohlsson's Boktryckeri, Lund; reprinted Nordiska Bokhandeln, Stockholm.</em> 1:1-896, figs. 1-361. (reprinted 1976). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Apostolov, A. & T.M. Marinov. (1988). Copepoda Harpacticoida (morski kharpaktikoidi). [Copepoda, Harpacticoida (marine harpacticoids).]. <em>Fauna Bulgarica, Fauna Bolgarii. Izd. B'lg. Akad. Nauk, in Aedibus Academiae Scientiarum Bulgaricae, Sofia. Scient. Bulgaricae, Sofia.</em> 18:1-384. (Bulgarian.). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Mordukhai-Boltovskoy, F.D., ed. (1969). Rakoobraznye. (Crustacea). Opredetel' fauny Chernogo i Azovskogo more, 2. Svobodnozhivushchie bespozvonochnye. [Crustacea. Identification key to the fauna of the Black and Azov Seas, 2. Freeliving invertebrates.]. <em>Institut Biologii Yuzh'nykh Morei, Akademiya Nauk USSR, Naukova Dumka, Kiev.</em> 536 pp. (In Russian.). [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution European and North American Atlantic coasts, Tenerife, Canaries, Indian Ocean, and Brazil [details]Habitat benthic species [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Pseudowestwoodia pygmaea Scott T. & Scott A., 1895)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Pseudothalestris pygmaea (Scott T. & Scott A., 1895))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Pseudothalestris pygmaea (Scott T. & Scott A., 1895))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Image from synonym