Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Cyclopoida > Suborder Ergasilida > Family Ergasilidae

Thersitina Norman, 1905

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Thersites*	Pagenstecher, 1861	synonym

Children

Thersitina gasterostei (Pagenstecher, 1861)

Literature

original description	Norman, A.M. (1905). Museum Normanianum, or a Catalogue of the Invertebrata of the Arctic and North Atlantic Temperate Ocean and Palaearctic Region, Which Are Contained in the Collections of the Rev. Canon a.M. Norman. Part. III. Crustacea, 2 edition. 2: I-Vi, 1-47.
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	Wilson, C.B. (1911). North American parasitic copepods belonging to the family Ergasilidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 39(1788):263-400, pls. 41-60. (11-i-1911)
additional source	Ohtsuka, S., J.S. Ho, K. Nagasawa, J. Morozinska-Gogol & W. Piasecki. (2004). The identity of Limnoncaea diuncata Kokubo, 1914 (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida) from Hokkaido, Japan, with the relegation of Diergasilus Do, 1981 to a junior synonym of Thersitina Norman, 1905. Systematic Parasitology 57(1):35-44.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Thersitina Norman, 1905. 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:128645

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Thersitina Norman, 1905. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/a59e04ba-dfd0-425d-bb9a-9a90718d23cf