Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Gymnoplea > Order Calanoida > Family Tharybidae > Genus Undinella

Undinella simplex (Wolfenden, 1906)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Undinella*	Sars G.O., 1900	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Undinella brevipes*	Farran, 1908	synonym
*Xanthocalanus simplex*	Wolfenden, 1906	synonym

Literature

original description	Wolfenden, R.N. (1906). Plankton Studies: preliminary notes upon new or interesting species. Part 2. Copepoda. Rebman Limited, London & New York. [The original edition was withdrawn by Wolfenden and an amended edition was being circulated. Vide: Farran, G.P., 1939.] :25-44, pls. 8-14.
basis of record	Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp.
additional source	Vervoort, W. (1957). Copepods from Antarctic and sub-Antarctic plankton samples. B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Research Expedition 1929-1931, Reports Series B ( Zoology and Botany), Griffin Press, Adelaide Australia. (B)3:1-160, figs. 1-138. (iii-1957).
additional source	Grice, G.D. & K. Hulsemann. (1965). Abundance, vertical distribution and taxonomy of calanoid copepods at selected stations in the northeast Atlantic. Journal of Zoology, London. 146:213-262, figs. 1-26. (x-1965).
ecology source	Brun, P., M.R. Payne & T. Kiørboe. (2017). A trait database for marine copepods. Earth System Science Data. 9(1):99-113.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Undinella simplex (Wolfenden, 1906). 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:149693