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 Sarsamphiascus

Sarsamphiascus pacificus (Sars G.O., 1905)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Sarsamphiascus*	Huys, 2009	accepted genus name
*Mesamphiascus*	Nicholls, 1941	synonym

Species group names

*Amphiascus pacificus*	Sars G.O., 1905	synonym
*Mesamphiascus pacificus*	(Sars G.O., 1905)	synonym

Literature

basis of record	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.).
source of synonymy	Huys, R. (2009). Unresolved cases of type fixation, synonymy and homonymy in harpacticoid copepod nomenclature (Crustacea: Copepoda). Zootaxa. 2183:1-99.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Sarsamphiascus pacificus (Sars G.O., 1905). 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:549146