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

Thespesiopsyllus Wilson C.B., 1924

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Thaumatopsyllus*	Sars G.O., 1913	synonym

Children

Thaumatopsyllus paradoxus Sars G.O., 1913

Literature

original description	Wilson, C.B. (1924). New North American parasitic copepods, new hosts and notes on copepod nomenclature. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 64(17)(2507):1-22, pls. 1-3.
basis of record	ICES Zooplankton: Copepoda. sheet n° 32.
additional source	McKinnon, A.D. (1994). Australopsyllus fallax gen. et sp. nov., the third known species of the family Thaumatopsyllidae (Copepoda: Cyclopoida). Sarsia, Bergen. 79(1):27-32, figs 1-4.
status source	Bowman, T.E. & L.G. Abele. (1982). Classification of the recent Crustacea. In: Abele, L.G. (ed.). The Biology of Crustacea (editor-in-chief D.E. Bliss). 1. Systematics, the Fossil Record, and Biogeography, Academic Press, New York, 1-319 :1-27.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Thespesiopsyllus Wilson C.B., 1924. 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:149837