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

Haloptilus oxycephalus (Giesbrecht, 1889)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Haloptilus*	Giesbrecht, 1898	accepted genus name
*Hemicalanus*	Dana, 1852-1853	synonym

Species group names

*Hemicalanus oxycephalus*	Giesbrecht, 1889	synonym

Literature

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	Brodsky, K.A. (1962). K faune i raspredeleniyu veslonogikh rachkov Calanoida poverkhnostnykh vod severo-zapadnoi chasti Tikhogo okeana. [On the fauna and distribution of the calanoid copepods from the surface waters of the north-western Pacific Ocean.]. Issledovaniya dal'nevost. Morei SSSR. 8:91-166, figs. 1-60. (Russian).
additional source	Lee, B.D. (1966). Distribution and abundance of pelagic copepods in the Drake Passage and off the coast of Argentina, with special reference to hydrology of these areas. Ph.D. Thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1-250, pls. 1-56.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Sarala Devi, K. & T.S.S. Rao. (1980). Genus Haloptilus (Copepoda: Calanoida) from the equatorial region of the Indian Ocean. Mahasagar, Goa 13(1):67-70, fig. 1. (iii-1980)
additional source	Bradford, J.M. (1970). Records of pelagic copepods off Kaikoura, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 4(4):351-363, figs. 1-81. (xii-1970)
additional source	Suárez-Morales, E., J.W. Fleeger & P.A. Montagna. (2009). Free-living Copepoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. In: Felder, D. L. & D.K. Camp [Eds]. Gulf of Mexico: origin, waters, and biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, 1393 pp. Chapter pagination: 841-869.
additional source	Vervoort, W. (1965). Pelagic Copepoda. Part II. Copepoda Calanoida of the families Phaennidae up to and including Acartiidae, containing the description of a new species of Aetideidae. Atlantide Report, Danish Expedition to Coasts of Tropical West Africa 1945-1946 8:9-216.
additional source	Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.).
additional source	Corral-Estrada, J. (1970). Nota sobre la presencia en el Atlantico de dos especies recientes de Calocalanus (Copepoda, Calanoida). [Note on the presence in the Atlantic of two recent species of Calocalanus (Copepoda, Calanoida).]. Vieraea: Folia Scientarum Biologicarum Canariensium. 1:12-20, pls. 1-3.
additional source	Park, T. (1988). Calanoid copepods of the genus Haloptilus from antarctic and subantarctic waters. Biology of the Antarctic Seas, XIX. Antarctic Research Series, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC 47:1-25, figs. 1-14.
additional source	Matthews, J.B.L. (1972). The genus Euaugaptilus (Crustacea, Copepoda). New descriptions and a review of the genus in relation to Augaptilus, Haloptilus and Pseudaugaptilus. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology 24(1):1-71, figs. 1-13, tabs. 1-7.
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. Haloptilus oxycephalus (Giesbrecht, 1889). 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:104434