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

Platychelipus Brady, 1880

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Platychelipus laophontoides Sars G.O., 1908
Platychelipus littoralis 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	Eltringham, S.K. & P.R.O. Barnett. (1958). Survival at reduced salinities and osmoregulation in Limnoria (Isopoda) and Platychelipus (Harpacticoida). Reports of the Challenger Society 3(10):24.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Platychelipus 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:115382