Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Harpacticoida > Family Miraciidae > Subfamily Diosaccinae

Robertsonia Brady, 1880

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Varnaia*	Klie, 1937	synonym

Children

Robertsonia angolensis (Monard, 1934)
Robertsonia celtica (Monard, 1935)
Robertsonia diademata Monard, 1926
Robertsonia knoxi (Thompson I.C. & Scott A., 1903)
Robertsonia monardi (Klie, 1937)
Robertsonia normani Brady, 1910
Robertsonia pontica (Apostolov, 1968)
Robertsonia propinqua (Scott T., 1894)
Robertsonia salsa Gurney, 1927
Robertsonia tenuis Brady, 1880

Literature

original description	Brady, G.S. (1880). A monograph of the free and semi-parasitic Copepoda of the British Islands. Ray Society, London. 2:1-182, pls. 34-82.
basis of record	Huys, R. (2001). Copepoda - Harpacticoida. In: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds.) 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. 50:268-280.
additional source	Lang, K. (1948). Monographie der Harpacticiden. Vol. 1 [Monographs of the Harpacticites. Vol. 1]. Hakan Ohlsson's Boktryckeri, Lund; reprinted Nordiska Bokhandeln, Stockholm. 1:1-896, figs. 1-361. (reprinted 1976).
additional source	Klie, W. (1941). Adriatische Harpacticoiden II. Die Gattung Robertsonia Brady, 1880. [Adriatic Harpacticoids II. The genus Robertsonia Brady, 1880. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 135(5-6):133-137. (15-viii-1941).
source of synonymy	Willen, E. (2002). Notes on the systematic position of the Stenheliinae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) within the Thalestridimorpha and description of two new species from Motupore Island, Papua New Guinea. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 43(1): 27-42.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Robertsonia Brady, 1880. 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:115324