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

Microthalestris Sars G.O., 1905

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Microthalestris gracilis (Brady, 1910)
Microthalestris littoralis Sars G. O., 1911

Literature

original description	Sars, G.O. (1905). Copepoda Harpacticoida. Parts IX & X. Thalestridae (continued). An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum. 5:109-132, pls. 65-80.
basis of record	Lang, K. (1948). Monographie der Harpacticiden. Vol. 1 [Monographs of the Harpacticites. Vol. 1]. Hakan Ohlsson's Boktryckeri, Lund; reprinted Nordiska Bokhandeln, Stockholm. 1:1-896, figs. 1-361. (reprinted 1976).
additional source	Lang, K. (1934). Marine Harpacticiden von der Campbell-Insel und einigen anderen südlichen Inseln. [Marine harpacticids from Campbell Island and some other southern islands.]. Acta Universitatis Lundensis, New Series, Avd. 2, 30(14) (= Kungl. Fysiografiska Sallskapets Handlingar, Lund. 45(14)):1-56, figs. 1-153.
source of synonymy	Willen, E. (2002). Notes on the systematic position of the Stenheliinae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) within the Thalestridimorpha and description of two new species from Motupore Island, Papua New Guinea. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 43(1): 27-42.
taxonomy source	Huys, R. & F.H. Mu. (2021). Johnwellsia, a new intertidal genus of Parastenheliidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from the Taiwan Strait, China, including a review of the family and key to genera. In: Huys, R. (ed.). Systematics and Taxonomy of Harpacticoid Copepods—A Commemorative Volume in Honour of Prof. John B.J. Wells, Zootaxa, 569 pp. 5051 (1): 236–318.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Microthalestris Sars G.O., 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:150133