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

Microarthridion littorale (Poppe, 1881)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Tachidius Lilljeborg, 1853

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Microarthridion*	Lang, 1944	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Tachidius littoralis*	Poppe, 1881	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	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 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	Kim, J.G., H.K. Choi & S.M. Yoon. (2016). A new record of Microarthridion littorale (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Tachidiidae) from Korea with taxonomic note on the species. Animal Systematics Evolution And Diversity. 32(3):207-218.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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.
additional source	Por, F.D. (1960). Littorale Harpacticoiden der Nordwest-Kusten des Schwarzen Meeres. [Littoral Harpacticoida of the northwest coast of the Black Sea.]. Travaux du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Grigore Antipa. 2:97-143, figs. 1-17.
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	Dussart, B.H. (1967). Les Copépodes des eaux continentales d'Europe occidentale. Tome I: Calanoïdes et Harpacticoïdes. [Copepods of the continental waters of Western Europe. Volume I: Calanoids and Harpacticoids.]. N. Boubée et Cie, Paris. 500 pp.
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.
additional source	Palmer, M.A. & B.C. Coull. (1980). The prediction of egg development rate and the effect of temperature for the meiobenthic copepod, Microarthridion littorale (Poppe). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 48(1):73-83, figs. 1-6, tabs. 1-2. (21-X-1980).
additional source	Drzycimski, I. & R. Rozanaska. (1967). Nowe gatunki Harpacticoida (Copepoda) zalewu Wislanego. [ New species of Harpacticoida (Copepoda) from the Vistula Lagoon.]. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyzszej Szkoly Rolniczej w Olsztynie. 23:61-68. [Polish].
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	Marinov, T. (1971). Kharpatikoidi ot b'lgarskoto kraibrezhnie na Cherno more.[ Harpacticoides of the Bulgarian Black Sea coast.]. Izvestiya Naucnoizslegdovatelskiya Institut Ribini Stop. Okeanologiya, Varna. 11: 43-87, figs. 1-39. (17-xii-1971, Bulgarian with English and Russian summaries).
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).

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Microarthridion littorale (Poppe, 1881). 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:116498

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Microarthridion littorale (Poppe, 1881). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/969847ac-4571-4c92-80df-ffaa039c618d