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

Echinolaophonte Nicholls, 1941

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Echinolaophonte armiger (Gurney, 1927)
Echinolaophonte brevispinosa (Sars G.O., 1908)
Echinolaophonte horrida (Norman, 1876)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ツノナガテナガソコミジンコ属

Literature

original description	Nicholls, A.G. (1941). A revision of the families Diosaccidae Sars, 1906 and Laophontidae T. Scott, 1905. (Copepoda, Harpacticoida). Records of the South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 7(1):65-110. (27-x-1941).
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. (1965). Copepoda Harpacticoida from the Californian Pacific coast. Kungliga Svenska Vetensk-Akademiens Handlingar, Fjarde Serien. Almquist & Wiksell, Stockholm. 10(2):1-560, figs. 1-303, pls. 1-6.
additional source	Bodin, P. (1997). Catalogue of the new marine Harpacticoid Copepods. Studiedocumenten van het K.B.I.N. = Documents de Travail de l'I.R.Sc.N.B., 89. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 89: 1-304.
taxonomy source	Song, S.J., S.K. Lee, M. Kim, K.H. George & J.S. Khim. (2023). Phylogenetic revision of Echinolaophonte Nicholls (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Laophontidae T. Scott) including the establishment of two new genera and two new species,. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 99(1): 217-252,.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Echinolaophonte Nicholls, 1941. 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:115367