Leptocaris
| Leptocaris | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Maxillopoda |
| Subclass: | Copepoda |
| Order: | Harpacticoida |
| Family: | Darcythompsoniidae |
| Genus: | Leptocaris T. Scott, 1899 |
Leptocaris is a genus of copepods in the family Darcythompsoniidae. One species, the Mexican endemic L. stromatolicolus, is included on the IUCN Red List as a vulnerable species.[1] The genus contains the following species:[2]
- Leptocaris adriatica Petkovski, 1955
- Leptocaris armatus Lang, 1965
- Leptocaris azoricus Kunz, 1983
- Leptocaris biscayensis (Noodt, 1955)
- Leptocaris brevicornis (van Douwe, 1905)
- Leptocaris canariensis Lang, 1965
- Leptocaris doughertyi Lang, 1965
- Leptocaris echinatus Fiers, 1986
- Leptocaris elishevae (Por, 1968)
- Leptocaris glaber Fiers, 1986
- Leptocaris gurneyi (Nicholls, 1944)
- Leptocaris ignavus (Noodt, 1953)
- Leptocaris igneus Cottarelli & Baldari, 1982
- Leptocaris insularis (Noodt, 1958)
- Leptocaris islandica Apostolov, 2007
- Leptocaris itoi Kunz, 1994
- Leptocaris kunzi Fleeger & Clark, 1980
- Leptocaris mangalis Por, 1983
- Leptocaris marinus (Por, 1964)
- Leptocaris minima (Noodt, 1958)
- Leptocaris minimus (Jakobi, 1954)
- Leptocaris minutus T. Scott, 1899
- Leptocaris mucronatus Fiers, 1986
- Leptocaris noodti Kunz, 1994
- Leptocaris pori Lang, 1965
- Leptocaris ryukyuensis Song et al., 2012 [3]
- Leptocaris sibirica Borutsky, 1952
- Leptocaris stromatolicolus Zamudio-Valdés & Reid, 1990
- Leptocaris trisetosus (Kunz, 1935)
- Leptocaris vermiculatus (Oliveira, 1957)
References
- ↑ J. W. Reid (1996). "Leptocaris stromatolicolus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
- ↑ T. Chad Walter & Rony Huys (2009). T. C. Walter & G. Boxshall, ed. "Leptocaris Scott T., 1899". World Copepoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved April 14, 2010.
- ↑ Sung Joon Song, Hans-Uwe Dahms & Jong Seong Khim (2012). "A review of Leptocaris including a description of L. ryukyuensis sp. nov. (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Darcythompsoniidae)". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (in press): 1–9. doi:10.1017/S0025315411001949.
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