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

Heterolaophonte minuta (Boeck, 1873)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Heterolaophonte*	Lang, 1948	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Laophonte minuta*	Boeck, 1873	synonym
*Laophonte subsalsa*	Brady, 1902	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	Letova, V.N. (1982). Harpacticoida (Crustacea, Copepoda) ilisto peschano litorali vostochnogo Murmana. [Harpacticoida (Crustacea, Copepoda) from the mud-sandy littoral of the east Murman. ]. In: Skarlato, O.A. (ed.). Bespozvonochnye pribrezhnykh biotsenozov severnogo ledovitego. Marine invertebrates of coastal biocenoses of the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Issledovaniya Fauny Morei. 29(37):46-75, figs. 1-22. (27-xii-1982, Russian with English summary).
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	Dahms, H.U. (1988). Postembryonic development of Harpacticoida (Crustacea, Copepoda) and its significance for the reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships. Ph.D. Thesis, Universität Oldenburg. 280 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	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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Apostolov, A. (2021). Les Harpacticoïdes (Crustacea, Copepoda) de la côte Atlantique et les eaux intérieures de l'Islande. Maison d'edition Libra Scorp, Bulgaria. 303 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Heterolaophonte minuta (Boeck, 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:116242

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Heterolaophonte minuta (Boeck, 1873). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/b13e9305-ec20-4653-85b3-930b1e21d097