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

Mychophilus roseus Hesse, 1866

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mychophilus*	Hesse, 1865	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Hesse, E. (1865). Recherches sur les Crustacés rares ou nouveaux des côtes de France. (complément du troisième article). Crustacés parasites vivant dans les Ascidies phallusiennes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Série Zoologie et Biologie Animale, Paris. (5)3:221-242, pl. 4.
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	Sars, G.O. (1921). Copepoda Monstrilloida and Notodelphyoida. Parts V & VI. Botryllophilidae, Enterocolidae, Supplement. An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum, Bergen. 8:69-91, index, title, preface, pls. 33-37.
additional source	Ooishi, S. (2008). Female and male Mychophilus roseus (Crustacea: Copepoda: Cyclopidae: Ascidicolidae) living in the compound ascidian Botryllus schlosseri. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 121(4):512-530.
additional source	Gotto, R.V., J.M.C. Holmes & R.P. Lowther. (1984). Description of the adult male Mychophilus roseus Hesse (Copepoda, Cyclopoida): a copepod with remarkable sensory equipment. Irish Naturalists' Journal 21(7):305-313, figs. 1-12, pl. 4 with figs. 13-21. (vii-1984)
additional source	Lang, K. (1948). Copepoda 'Notodelphyoida' from the Swedish west-coast with an outline on the systematics of the Copepoda. Arkiv för Zoologi (A)40(14):1-36, figs. 1-17, pl. 1. (17-ii-1948)
additional source	Gotto, R.V. (1954). On Mycophilus roseus Hesse, and other Notodelphyoid copepods from Strangford Lough, Co. Down. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 124(3):659-668, figs. 1-5. (xi-1954)

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Mychophilus roseus Hesse, 1866. 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:106580