Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea

Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Copepoda incertae sedis
Neocopepoda Huys & Boxshall, 1991
Progymnoplea Lang, 1948

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: roeipootkreeften sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: copepods

German: Ruderfüßer; Ruderfußkrebse sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: カイアシ亜綱 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: hoppkräftor

Literature

original description	Milne Edwards, H. (1840). Ordre des Copépodes. [Order Copepoda]. Histoire naturelle des Crustaces, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. [In: Natural history of Crustacea, including the anatomy, physiology and classification of these animals]]. 3: 411-529.
basis of record	Brusca, R.C.; Brusca, G.J. (1990). Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA (USA). ISBN 0-87893-098-1. 922 pp.
additional source	Ho, J.S. (1994). Copepod phylogeny: a reconsideration of Huys & Boxshall's 'parsimony versus homology'. In: Ferrari, F.D. & B.P. Bradley (eds.). Ecology and Morphology of Copepods. Developments in Hydrobiology 102, Hydrobiologia 292/293:31-39, fig.1-4, tab.1-4.
additional source	Ho, J.S. (1990). Phylogenetic analysis of copepod orders. Journal of Crustacean Biology 10(3):528-536.