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

Mesochra pygmaea (Claus, 1863)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Dactylopus Claus, 1863

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mesochra*	Boeck, 1865	accepted genus name
*Apsteinia*	Schmeil, 1894	synonym

Children

Mesochra pygmaea pygmaea (Claus, 1863)

Literature

original description	Monard, A. (1935). Etude sur la faune des Harpacticoides marins de Roscoff. Travaux de la Station Biologique de Roscoff. 13: 5-89, figs. 1-235.
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	Klie, W. (1950). Harpacticoida (Cop.) aus dem Bereich von Helgoland und der Kieler Bucht. (Fortsetzung). [Harpacticoida (Cop.) from the coast of Helgoland and the Killarney Bay (Fortsetzung).]. Kieler Meeresforschungen. 7(1):76-128, figs. 53-160.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
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.
additional source	Suárez-Morales, E., J.W. Fleeger & P.A. Montagna. (2009). Free-living Copepoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. In: Felder, D. L. & D.K. Camp [Eds]. Gulf of Mexico: origin, waters, and biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, 1393 pp. Chapter pagination: 841-869.
additional source	Apostolov, A. & T.M. Marinov. (1988). Copepoda Harpacticoida (morski kharpaktikoidi). Copepoda, Harpacticoida (marine harpacticoids). Fauna Bulgarica, Fauna Bolgarii. Izd. B'lg. Akad. Nauk, in Aedibus Academiae Scientiarum Bulgaricae, Sofia. Scient. Bulgaricae, Sofia. 18:1-384. (Bulgarian.).
additional source	Kornev, P.N. & E.C. Chertoprud. (2008). Copepod Crustaceans of the Order Harpactiocida of the White Sea. Morphology, Systematics, Ecoloy. 379 pp. Biology Faculty, Moscow State University. Tovarishchestvo Nauchmikh Izdanii, KMK, Moscow, 370pp. ISBN 978-5-87317-410-2 (In Russian).
additional source	Noodt, W. (1952). Marine Harpacticiden (Cop.) aus dem eulitoralen Sandstrand der Insel Sylt. [Marine harpacticoids (Cop.) from the eulittoral sandy beach of the island of Sylt.]. Abhandlungen Mathematisch.-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse Akademie Wissenschaftliche Mainz. 1952(3):105-142, figs. 1-99. (27-ix-1952).
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Wilson, C.B. (1932). The copepods of the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 158:1-635, figs. 1-316, pls. 1-41.
additional source	Monard, A. (1935). Les Harpacticoides marins de la region de Salammbo. Bulletin de la Station Oceanographique Salammbo. 34: 1-94, figs. 1-145.
additional source	Monard, A. (1928). Les Harpacticoïdes marins de Banyuls. [The marine Harpacticoids of Banyuls.]. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale. 67(4):259-443, figs. 1-48. (20-vii-1928).
additional source	Pesta, O. (1932). Krebstiere oder Crustacea. I: Ruderfüsser oder Copepoda. 3. Unterordnung: Harpacticoida (1. und 2. Hälfte). [Crustaceans or Crustacea. I: Copepods. 3. Suborder: Harpacticoida (1st and 2nd half)]. In: Dahl, F. (ed.). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der Angrenzenden Meeresteile nach Ihren Merkmalen und nach Ihrer Lebensweise. Jena. 24:1-164, figs. 1-72, 1-92.
additional source	Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.).
additional source	Mordukhai-Boltovskoy, F.D., ed. (1969). Rakoobraznye. (Crustacea). Opredetel' fauny Chernogo i Azovskogo more, 2. Svobodnozhivushchie bespozvonochnye. [Crustacea. Identification key to the fauna of the Black and Azov Seas, 2. Freeliving invertebrates.]. Institut Biologii Yuzh'nykh Morei, Akademiya Nauk USSR, Naukova Dumka, Kiev. 536 pp. (In Russian.).
additional source	Chislenko, L.L. (1977). Garpaktitsidy (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) s gubok zemli Frantsa-Iosifa.[ Harpacticoids (Copepoda Harpacticoidea) from sponges of Franz Josef Land.]. In: Biotsenosy shel'fa zemli Frantsa-Iosifa i fauna sopredel'nykh akuatorii. Issledovaniya Fauny Morei. 14(22):237-276, figs. 1-20, tab. (16-iii-1977, Russian with English summary).
taxonomy source	Nicholls, A.G. (1941). Littoral Copepoda from South Australia. (1) Harpacticoida. Records of the South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 6(4):381-427, figs. 1-23.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Mesochra pygmaea (Claus, 1863). 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:115705

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Mesochra pygmaea (Claus, 1863). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/f2590244-c8c1-4fac-bab5-a343d53dc717