Mormonillidae
Appearance
Mormonillidae | |
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Mormonilla phasma [1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Copepoda |
Order: | Mormonilloida Boxshall, 1979 |
Family: | Mormonillidae Giesbrecht, 1893 |
Mormonillidae is a family of planktonic marine copepods, the only member of the order Mormonilloida. There are five known species in two genera:[2]
- Mormonilla Giesbrecht, 1891
- Mormonilla atlantica Wolfenden, 1905
- Mormonilla phasma Giesbrecht, 1891
- Neomormonilla Ivanenko & Defaye, 2006
- Neomormonilla extremata Ivanenko & Defaye, 2006
- Neomormonilla minor (Giesbrecht, 1891)
- Neomormonilla polaris (G. O. Sars, 1900)
References
[edit]- ^ W. Giesbrecht (1892). "Pelagische Copepoden (Systematik and Faunistik)". Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neaples. 18: 1–831.
- ^ Geoff Boxshall (2013). "Mormonillidae Giesbrecht, 1893". World of Copepods database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved May 28, 2013.