Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Cyclopoida > Suborder Oithonida > Family Cyclopinidae > Genus Cyclopina

Cyclopina gracilis Claus, 1863

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cyclopina*	Claus, 1863	accepted genus name
*Herbstina*	Huys & Boxshall, 1990	synonym
*Microcyclopina*	Plesa, 1961	synonym
*Troglocyclopina*	Jaume & Boxshall, 1996	synonym

Literature

original description	Claus, C. (1863). Die frei lebenden Copepoden mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Fauna Deutschlands, der Nordsee und des Mittelmeeres. [The free-living copepods with special consideration of the fauna of Germany, the North Sea and the Mediterranean.]. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig. 230 pp., pls. 1-37.
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	Schäfer, H.W. (1936). Cyclopiniden (Crustacea Copepoda) aus der deutschen Nordsee. [Cyclopoida (Crustacea Copepoda) from the German North Sea.]. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 114(9-10):225-234, figs. 1-20. (2-vi-1936).
additional source	Mordukhai-Boltovskoy, F.D., ed. (1969). Rakoobraznye. (Crustacea). Opredetel' fauny Chernogo i Azovskogo more, 2. Svobodnozhivushchie bespozvonochnye. [Crustacea. Identification key to the fauna of the Black and Azov Seas, 2. Freeliving invertebrates.]. Institut Biologii Yuzh'nykh Morei, Akademiya Nauk USSR, Naukova Dumka, Kiev. 536 pp. (In Russian.).
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Kiefer, F. (1929). Crustacea Copepoda. 2. Cyclopoida Gnathostoma. Das Tierreich, Berlin und Leipzig. 53:1-102. [German].
additional source	van Breemen, P.J. (1906). Mariene copepoden [Marine copepods]. Fauna van Nederland, 1. E.J. Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands. 31 pp.
additional source	Dussart, B.H. & D. Defaye. (2001). Copepoda: Introduction to the Copepoda. (2nd edition)(revised and enlarged). Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World. H.J.F. Dumont (ed.). SPB Academic Publishers, The Hague. 16:1-344.
additional source	Lang, K. (1946). Einige für die schwedische Fauna neue marine 'Cyclopoida Gnathostoma' nebst Bemerkungen über die Systematik der Unterfamilie Cyclopininae. [Some marine 'Cyclopoida Gnathostoma' new to the Swedish fauna together with remarks on the systematics of the subfamily Cyclopininae.]. Arkiv för Zoologi. (A)38(6):1-16, figs. 1-7. (30-ix-1946).
additional source	Herbst, H.V. (1964). Cyclopoida Gnathostoma (Crustacea Copepoda) aus dem Litoral und Küstengrundwasser des Roten Meeres. [Cyclopoida Gnathostoma (Crustacea Copepoda) from the littoral and coastal groundwater of the Red Sea.]. Kieler Meeresforschungen. 20, Sonderheft: 155-169, pls. 1-6.
additional source	Pallares, R.E.S. (1963). Los copépodos planctónicos marinos de Puerto Deseado (Santa Cruz, Argentina). [The marine planktonic copepods of Puerto Deseado (Santa Cruz, Argentina).]. Tesis Doctoral, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 167 pp. [In Spanish].
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
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. Cyclopina gracilis Claus, 1863. 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:106525