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 Laophonte

Laophonte thoracica Boeck, 1865

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Laophonte*	Philippi, 1840	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Boeck, A. (1865). Oversigt over de ved Norges Kyster jagttagne Copepoder henhorende til Calanidernes, Cyclopidernes og Harpactidernes Familier. [Overview of the Copepods hunted on the coast of Norway belonging to the families Calanoidae, Cyclopoidae and Harpacticodidae.]. Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania. 1864: 226-282 [for 1864 however published in 1865].
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	Vervoort, W. (1962). Report on some Copepoda collected during the Melanesia Expedition of the Osaka Museum of Natural History. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 10(2):393-470, figs. 1-32. (31-xii-1962)
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	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	Brady, G.S. (1880). A monograph of the free and semi-parasitic Copepoda of the British Islands. Ray Society, London. 2:1-182, pls. 34-82.
additional source	Lang, K. (1936). Undersökningar över Öresund. Untersuchungen aus dem Öresund. XX. Harpacticiden aus dem Öresund. [Surveys over the Öresund. Untersuchungen aus dem Öresund. XX. Harpacticide aus dem Öresund.]. Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapets Handlingar, new series,. 46(8):1-52, figs. 1-148. [Lunds Universitets Arsskrift, N.F. 2(31)8:1-52.].
additional source	Kim, S.H. (2013). Arthropoda, Maxillopoda, Copepoda, Harpacticoida : Marine Harpacticoida II. Invertebrate Fauna of Korea, National Institute of Biological Resources, Ministry of Environment(Korea). 21(27):138 pp.
additional source	Griga, R.E. (1961). Harpacticoida raiona Sevastopolya. [Harpacticoids of the Sebastopol region.]. Trudy Sevastopol'skoy Biologicheskoy Stantsii, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Transactions of the Sevastopol Biological Station). 14: 109-125. (Russian).
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	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.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Laophonte thoracica Boeck, 1865. 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:116278

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Laophonte thoracica Boeck, 1865. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/e55a0e40-6b0d-4569-9437-23d783fb1cb6