Clicky

Copepoda (Copepods)

Infraclass: Neocopepoda

Superorder: Gymnoplea

Order: Calanoida

Family: Diaptomidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Mastigodiaptomus galapagoensis Elías-Gutiérrez et al., 2023 El Junco Lake copepod 2004 El Junco Lake, San Cristóbal Island, Galápagos Islands Extinct Access
             
Tropodiaptomus ctenopus (Kiefer, 1930) Comb-footed pelagic copepod ? Tananarive region, Madagascar Extinct Access
 

 

Family: Phaennidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Xanthocalanus gracilis Wolfenden, 1911 - (rediscovered) Antarctic Ocean Rediscovered Access

 

Family: Pseudocyclopidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Pseudocyclops magnus Esterly, 1911 - (rediscovered) Barbados & Agar's Island, Bermuda Rediscovered Access

 

Family: Pseudodiaptomidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Pseudodiaptomus brehmi Kiefer, 1938 - (rediscovered) Lake Taal, Luzon & Lake Naujan, Mindoro Island, Philippines Rediscovered Access

 

Family: Tharybidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Tharybis magna Bradford & Wells, 1983  - (rediscovered) Antarctic Ocean Rediscovered Access

 

Superorder: Podoplea

Order: Cyclopoida

Family: Cyclopicinidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Cyclopicina longifurcata (Scott T., 1901) - (rediscovered) North Atlantic Rediscovered Access

 

Family: Cyclopidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Afrocyclops pauliani Lindberg, 1951 Madagascan cyclops, Paulian's cyclops 1951 Madagascar (near Antananarivo) Extinct Access
 

 

Order: Harpacticoida

Family: Ameiridae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Paranitocrella bastiani Tang & Knott, 2009 Bastian's groundwater copepod 27 November 1997 Yanchep National Park, Western Australia, Australia Extant? Access

 

Family: Laophontidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Heterolaophonte hamatus Jakobi, 1954 - (rediscovered) Barbados & Brazil Rediscovered Access

 

 

Order: Misophrioida

–No subordinate taxa

 

Order: Monstrilloida

–No subordinate taxa

 

Order: Mormonilloida

–No subordinate taxa

 

Order: Polyarthra

–No subordinate taxa

 

Order: Siphonostomatoida

Family: Cancerillidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Cancerilla oblonga Bartsch, 1975 - (rediscovered) Luderitz Bay, Namibia & Cape Town, South Africa Rediscovered Access

 

 

Infraclass: Progymnoplea

Order: Platycopioida

Family: Platycopiidae

–No subordinate taxa

 

<< Back to the Recently Extinct Animals database