Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Monstrilloida > Family Monstrillidae

Monstrilla Dana, 1849-1852

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Monstrilla anglica Lubbock, 1857
Monstrilla conjunctiva Giesbrecht, 1902
Monstrilla filogranarum (Malaquin, 1901)
Monstrilla ghirardellii Suárez-Morales, Goruppi, de Olazabal & Tirelli, 2017
Monstrilla gracilicauda Giesbrecht, 1893
Monstrilla grandis Giesbrecht, 1891
Monstrilla leucopis Sars G.O., 1921
Monstrilla longicornis Thompson I.C., 1890
Monstrilla longiremis Giesbrecht, 1893
Monstrilla minuta Isaac, 1975
Monstrilla obesa Isaac, 1975

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: モンストリラ属

Literature

original description	Dana, J.D. (1849-1852). Conspectus crustaceorum, quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes, e classe Reipublicae foederatae duce, lexit et descripsit Jacobus D. Dana. Pars II. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2: 9-61. [Vol. II,. from May 1848-May 1852]. no figures or plates just verbal.
basis of record	Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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: pp. 252-268
additional source	Dias, C.O. (2002). Taxonomia e distribuição geográfica dos Monstrilloida (Copepoda -- Crustacea) do Atlântico sul ocidental. Taxonomy and geographic distribution of Monstrilloida (Copepoda -- Crustacea) from the South Occidental Atlantic. Tese de Doutorado, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 336 pp. [In Portuguese and English].
additional source	Anonymous. (1997). Monstrilla Dana, 1849 and Thaumaleus Kroyer, 1849 (Crustacea, Copepoda): conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 54(2):131-132. (vi-1997).
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	Poore, G.C.B. (1996). Comments on the proposed conservation of the generic names Monstrilla Dana, 1849 and Thaumaleus Kroyer, 1849 (Crustacea, Copepoda). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 53(2):123.
additional source	ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Bourne, G.C. (1890). Notes on the genus Monstrilla Dana. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science (2)30:565-578, pl. 37.
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	Sewell, R.B.S. (1949). The littoral and semi-parasitic Cyclopoida, the Monstrilloida and Notodelphyoida. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition. Publ. British Museum (Natural History). 9(2):17-199, figs. 1-41, l chart.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Monstrilla Dana, 1849-1852. 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:119780