Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Gymnoplea > Order Calanoida > Family Acartiidae > Genus Acartia > Subgenus Acartia (Acanthacartia)

Acartia (Acanthacartia) bifilosa (Giesbrecht, 1881)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Acartia*	Dana, 1846	accepted genus name
*Dias*	Lilljeborg, 1853	synonym

Species group names

*Dias bifilosa*	Giesbrecht, 1881	objective synonym
*Acartia bifilosa*	(Giesbrecht, 1881)	synonym; alternate representation
*Dias bifilosus*	Giesbrecht, 1881	synonym

Children

Acartia (Acanthacartia) bifilosa bifilosa (Giesbrecht, 1881)
Acartia (Acanthacartia) bifilosa intermedia (Poppe, 1885)

Literature

additional source	Sazhina, L.I. (1985). Naupliusy massovykh vidov pelagickeskikh kopepod Mirovogo okeana. (Naupliuses of mass species of the world's oceans.) Naukova Dumka, Kiev 238pp.
additional source	Steuer, A. (1923). Bausteine zu einer Monographie der Copepodengattung Acartia. 1. Die Arten der Gattung Acartia Dana. 2. Die Grösse der Hochsee-Acartien in ihrer Abhängigkeit von der Dichte des Meerwassers. Building blocks for a monograph on the copepod genus Acartia. 1. The species of the genus Acartia Dana. 2. The size of the deep-sea Acartias in relation to the density of the sea water. Arbeiten aus dem Zoologischen Institut der Universität Innsbruck. 1(5):91-144 (separate: 1-56), figs. 1-179, pls. 1-5, maps 1-6. [dated 1924].
additional source	Paulmier, G. (2008). The genus Acartia (Copepoda, Gymnoplea) in coastal and estuarian waters to the Britain and Normandy. Le genre Acartia (Copepoda, Gymnoplea) dans les eaux littorales etestuariennes de la Bretagne et de la Normandie. Bulletin de la Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux. 36(3):269-283. (French)
additional source	Kiefer, F. (1960). Notizen zur Copepodenfauna Nordwestdeutschlands. [Notes on the copepod fauna of northwest Germany.]. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen. 35(3):438-449, figs. 1-32. (31-iii-1960).
additional source	Wilson, C.B. (1932). The copepods of the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 158:1-635, figs. 1-316, pls. 1-41.
ecology source	Brun, P., M.R. Payne & T. Kiørboe. (2017). A trait database for marine copepods. Earth System Science Data. 9(1):99-113.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Acartia (Acanthacartia) bifilosa (Giesbrecht, 1881). 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:345919

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Acartia (Acanthacartia) bifilosa (Giesbrecht, 1881). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/b7cb9e14-e53e-4b47-9b0e-194a7bcebb36