Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Harpacticoida > Family Harpacticidae

Tigriopus Norman, 1869

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Tigriopus brevicornis (Müller O.F., 1776)
Tigriopus fulvus (Fischer, 1860)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: シオダマリミジンコ属

Literature

original description	Norman, A.M. (1869). Last report on dredging among the Shetland Isles. Part 2. On the Crustacea, Tunicata, Polyzoa, Echinodermata, Actinozoa, Hydrozoa, and Porifera. In: Report of the thirty-eighth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; held in Norwich in August 1868. London 1869. pp. 247–336, (Amphipoda, pp. 273–288) (Porifera, pp. 327-335).
basis of record	Huys, R. (2001). Copepoda - Harpacticoida. In: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds.) European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50:268-280.
additional source	Norman, A.M. (1869). Last report on dredging among the Shetland Isles. Part 2. On the Crustacea, Tunicata, Polyzoa, Echinodermata, Actinozoa, Hydrozoa, and Porifera. In: Report of the thirty-eighth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; held in Norwich in August 1868. London 1869. pp. 247–336, (Amphipoda, pp. 273–288) (Porifera, pp. 327-335).
additional source	Igarashi, S. (1959). On the relationship between the environmental conditions of tide pool and the Tigriopus population. Bulletin of Marine Biology Station Asamushi, Tohoku University. 9(4):167-171, figs. 1-6.
additional source	Bodin, P. (1997). Catalogue of the new marine Harpacticoid Copepods. Studiedocumenten van het K.B.I.N. = Documents de Travail de l'I.R.Sc.N.B., 89. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 89: 1-304.
additional source	Bozic, B. (1975). Détection actométrique d'un facteur d'interattraction chez Tigriopus(Crustacés, Copépodes, Harpacticoïdes). [Actometric detection of an interattraction factor in Tigriopus (Crustaceans, Copepods, Harpacticoids).]. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 100(3):305-311. (25-x-1975).
additional source	Green, J. (1959). Haemoglobin and the habitat of the harpacticoid copepod Elaphoidella gracilis (Sars). Nature, London 183(4678):1834. (27-vi-1959)
identification resource	Chullasorn, S. P. Kangtia, S.J. Song & J.S. Khim. (2021). Two new species of Tigriopus Norman, 1869 from Chonburi Province, Thailand (Crustacea: Copepoda: Harpacticidae). In: Huys, R. (ed.). Systematics and Taxonomy of Harpacticoid Copepods—A Commemorative Volume in Honour of Prof. John B.J. Wells, Zootaxa, 569 pp. 5051 (1): 041–067.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Tigriopus Norman, 1869. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:115351

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Tigriopus Norman, 1869. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/e3325c60-20af-4754-b186-eb190573e2f6