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

Orthopsyllus Brady & Robertson, 1873

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Orthopsyllus agnatus Klie, 1950
Orthopsyllus illgi (Chappuis, 1958)
Orthopsyllus linearis (Claus, 1866)
Orthopsyllus sarsi Klie, 1941

Literature

original description	Brady, G.S. & D. Robertson. (1873). Contributions to the study of the Entomostraca. No. VIII. On marine Copepoda taken in the west of Ireland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (4)12:126-142, pls. 8-9. (viii-1873).
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	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	Sewell, R.B.S. (1940). Copepoda, Harpacticoida. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition. 7(2):119-382, figs. 1-88, l chart. (9-iii-1940).
additional source	Hamond, R. (1970). On a harpacticoid copepod of the genus Orthopsyllus Brady & Robertson from West Runton, Norfolk, England. Crustaceana, Leiden 18(2):209-217, figs. 1-26, tabs. 1-2. (25-iii-1970)
additional source	Park, E.O., M.S. Han & W. Lee. (2012). The first record of Orthopsyllus species (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Orthopsyllidae) from Korean waters. Journal of Species Research 1(1):56-67.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Orthopsyllus Brady & Robertson, 1873. 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:115416