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 Robertsonia

Robertsonia propinqua (Scott T., 1894)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Robertsonia*	Brady, 1880	accepted genus name
*Varnaia*	Klie, 1937	synonym

Species group names

*Amphiascus scotti*	Sewell, 1924	synonym
*Dactylopus propinquus*	Scott T., 1894	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	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	Rosenfield, D.C. (1967). The external morphology of the developmental stages of some diosaccid harpacticoid copepods (Crustacea) from Massachusetts Bay. Ph. D. Thesis, University, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 306pp.
additional source	Gurney, R. (1927). Zoological Results of the Cambridge Expedition to the Suez Canal, XXXIII: Report on the Crustacea - Copepoda (Littoral and Semi-Parasitic). Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 22(4):451-577, figs. 108-168, tab. 35. (xii-1927).
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.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Robertsonia propinqua (Scott T., 1894). 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:116008