Afrocyclops pauliani Lindberg, 1951
Madagascan cyclops, Paulian's cyclops
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record (disputed): 1949 (Reid & Cox, 2025); 1951 (Reid, 1996)
Rediscovered in: 2010-2015 (Jolo et al., 2024)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution & Habitat
Madagascar (near Antananarivo)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lindberg, K. (1951). Cyclopides (Crustacés Copépodes) de Madagascar. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar (A)5(1): 53-67.
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Dussart, Bernard H. (1982). Crustacés copépodes des eaux intérieures. Faune de Madagascar 58: 1-146.
Fitzpatrick, J. F., Jr. (1983). How to Know the Freshwater Crustacea. The Pictured Key Nature Series. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Co. Publishers. 227 pp.
Jolo, R., Perbiche-Neves, G., Sarmento, H., Mwapu Isumbisho, P., Suárez-Morales, E., Moreira-Silva, C., Borges, A. and Falavigna da Rocha, C. (2024). Redescription of two rare species of copepods (Crustacea: Cyclopoida) from the Congo River Basin (Africa) [Poster presentation]. 15th International Conference on Copepoda, Hiroshima, Japan.
Perbiche-Neves, G., Moreira-Silva, C., Suárez-Morales, E., Jolo, R., Isumbisho Mwapu, P., Borges, A. and Falavigna da Rocha, C. (2024). A synthesis on the dynamics of copepods in the Congo River basin [Paper presentation]. 15th International Conference on Copepoda, Hiroshima, Japan. https://hdl.handle.net/2268/321038
Reid, J. W. (1996). Afrocyclops pauliani. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 24 April 2011.
Reid, J. W. (1996). Afrocyclops pauliani. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T611A13066717. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T611A13066717.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.
Reid, J. W. and Cox, N. A. (2025). Afrocyclops pauliani. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T611A21421268. Accessed on 12 May 2025.
Walter, T. Chad. (2010). Afrocyclops pauliani Lindberg, 1951. In: Walter, T.C., Boxshall, G. (eds.) (2010). World Copepoda database. Accessed through: Walter, T.C., Boxshall, G. (Eds) (2010). World Copepoda database at http://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=348586 on 2012-02-04
Walter, T. C. and Boxshall, G. (2021). World of Copepods database. Afrocyclops pauliani Lindberg, 1951. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=348586 on 2025-05-12
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