Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Gymnoplea > Order Calanoida > Family Metridinidae

Pleuromamma Giesbrecht in Giesbrecht & Schmeil, 1898

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pleuromma*	Claus, 1863	synonym

Children

Pleuromamma abdominalis (Lubbock, 1856)
Pleuromamma borealis Dahl F., 1893
Pleuromamma gracilis Claus, 1863
Pleuromamma piseki Farran, 1929
Pleuromamma quadrungulata (Dahl F., 1893)
Pleuromamma robusta (Dahl F., 1893)
Pleuromamma xiphias (Giesbrecht, 1889)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: プレウロマンマ属

Literature

original description	Giesbrecht, W. & O. Schmeil. (1898). Copepoda I. Gymnoplea. Das Tierreich. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen, Berlin. 6:i-xvi, 1-169, figs. 1-31.
basis of record	Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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: pp. 252-268
additional source	Park, J.S. (1995). The development of integumental pore signatures in the genus Pleuromamma (Copepoda: Calanoida). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 75(1):211-218.
additional source	Evstigneev, P.V. (1982). O razmeshchenii lyuminestsentnykh organov u kopepod roda Pleuromamma. [On location of luminescent organs in Pleuromamma copepods.]. Ekologiya Morya. 10:72-75. (22-x-1982, Russian with English summary.).
additional source	ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Pleuromamma Giesbrecht in Giesbrecht & Schmeil, 1898. 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:104191