Aglaodiaptomus

Aglaodiaptomus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Maxillopoda
Subclass:	Copepoda
Order:	Calanoida
Family:	Diaptomidae
Genus:	Aglaodiaptomus Light, 1938

Aglaodiaptomus is a genus of copepods in the family Diaptomidae. They are often bright red or blue due to carotenoid pigments.^[1]

Conservation status

Species distributions are known very imprecisely, and two species are listed as vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List (marked VU below); both are endemic to the United States. A. kingsburyae was described from "a roadside ditch in Oklahoma and a pool and a pond in Texas", while A. marshianus was described from Lake Jackson, Florida.^[2]

Species

The genus Aglaodiaptomus contains 15 species.^[3]

• Aglaodiaptomus atomicus DeBiase & Taylor, 1997
• Aglaodiaptomus clavipes (Schacht, 1897)
• Aglaodiaptomus clavipoides M. S. Wilson, 1955
• Aglaodiaptomus conipedatus (Marsh, 1907)
• Aglaodiaptomus dilobatus M. S. Wilson, 1958
• Aglaodiaptomus forbesi Light, 1938
• Aglaodiaptomus kingsburyae A. Robertson, 1975 ^[4]
• Aglaodiaptomus leptopus (S. A. Forbes, 1882)
• Aglaodiaptomus lintoni (S. A. Forbes, 1893)
• Aglaodiaptomus marshianus M. S. Wilson, 1953 ^[5]
• Aglaodiaptomus pseudosanguineus (Turner, 1921)
• Aglaodiaptomus saskatchewanensis M. S. Wilson, 1958
• Aglaodiaptomus savagei DeBiase & Taylor, 2000
• Aglaodiaptomus spatulocrenatus (Pearse, 1906)
• Aglaodiaptomus stagnalis (S. A. Forbes, 1882)

References

1. Barbara E. Taylor, Douglas A. Leeper, Morgan A. Mcclure & Adrienne E. DeBiase (1999). "Carolina bays: ecology of aquatic invertebrates and perspectives on conservation". In Darold P. Batzer, Russell Ben Rader & Scott A. Wissinger. Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America: Ecology and Management. John Wiley and Sons. pp. 167–196. ISBN 978-0-471-29258-6.
2. Janet W. Reid, Ian A. E. Bayly, Giuseppe L. Pesce, Nancy A. Rayner, Y. Ranja Reddy, Carlos E. F. Rocha, Eduardo Suárez-Morales & Hiroshi Ueda (2002). "Conservation of continental copepod crustaceans". In Elva Escobar-Briones & Fernando Alvarez. Modern approaches to the study of Crustacea. Springer. pp. 253–261. ISBN 978-0-306-47366-1.
3. T. Chad Walter (2009). T. C. Walter & G. Boxshall, ed. "Aglaodiaptomus Light, 1938". World Copepoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved April 14, 2010.
4. J. W. Reid (1996). "Aglaodiaptomus kingsburyae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved November 22, 2010.
5. J. W. Reid (1996). "Aglaodiaptomus marshianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved November 22, 2010.