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

Amonardia similis (Claus, 1866)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Amonardia*	Lang, 1944	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Dactylopus similis*	Claus, 1866	synonym

Literature

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	Noodt, W. (1955). Copepoda Harpacticoidea von Teneriffa (Kanarische Inseln). [Copepoda Harpacticoida from Tenerife (Canary Islands).]. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 154(9-10):200-222, figs. 1-32.
additional source	Por, F.D. (1964). A study of the Levantine and Pontic Harpacticoida (Crustacea, Copepoda). Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden. 64:1-128, figs. 1-298. (17-iv-1964).
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	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.).
new combination reference	Lang, K. (1944). Monographie der Harpacticiden (Vorlaufige Mitteilung). [Monograph of the Harpacticidae (Preliminary communication).]. Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri Ab, Uppsala. 39 pp. (19-ii-1944).

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Amonardia similis (Claus, 1866). 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:115892