Marine Species Traits

Traits taxon details

Copepoda

AphiaID

1080 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1080)

Classification

Authority

Milne Edwards, 1840

Status

accepted

Rank

Class

Parent

Multicrustacea

Direct children (3)

Ordering

Alphabetically
By status

Children Display

direct main ranks all

Infraclass Neocopepoda
Infraclass Progymnoplea
Infraclass Copepoda incertae sedis (temporary name)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Milne Edwards, H. (1840). Ordre des Copépodes. [Order Copepoda]. Histoire naturelle des Crustaces, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. [In: Natural history of Crustacea, including the anatomy, physiology and classification of these animals]]. 3: 411-529., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16103940 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Traits (2025). Copepoda. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1080 on 2025-09-12

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Copepoda. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1080 on 2025-09-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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db_admin

2011-12-06 10:55:23Z

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Boxshall, Geoff

2015-05-05 09:47:59Z

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Boxshall, Geoff

2016-11-07 14:36:22Z

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Boxshall, Geoff

2016-11-30 12:36:48Z

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Boxshall, Geoff

2022-05-16 08:06:50Z

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Boxshall, Geoff

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original description Milne Edwards, H. (1840). Ordre des Copépodes. [Order Copepoda]. Histoire naturelle des Crustaces, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. [In: Natural history of Crustacea, including the anatomy, physiology and classification of these animals]]. 3: 411-529., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16103940 [details]

context source (PeRMS) Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. 2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao. 314 p. [details]

basis of record Brusca, R.C.; Brusca, G.J. (1990). Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA (USA). ISBN 0-87893-098-1. 922 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Ho, J.S. (1990). Phylogenetic analysis of copepod orders. Journal of Crustacean Biology 10(3):528-536. [details] Available for editors

additional source Ho, J.S. (1994). Copepod phylogeny: a reconsideration of Huys & Boxshall's 'parsimony versus homology'. In: Ferrari, F.D. & B.P. Bradley (eds.). Ecology and Morphology of Copepods. Developments in Hydrobiology 102, Hydrobiologia 292/293:31-39, fig.1-4, tab.1-4. [details] Available for editors