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

Nitocra Boeck, 1865

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Nitokra Boeck, 1865 orthographic variant; alternate representation
Transfuga Schmankevitsch, 1875 synonym

Children

Nitocra affinis Gurney, 1927
Nitocra balnearia Por, 1964
Nitocra californica Lang, 1965
Nitocra cari Petkovski, 1954
Nitocra elegans (Scott T., 1905)
Nitocra elongata Marcus, 1968
Nitocra fallaciosa Klie, 1937
Nitocra fluviatilis Galhano, 1968
Nitocra fragilis Sars G.O., 1905
Nitocra hamata Bodin, 1970
Nitocra hibernica (Brady, 1880)
Nitocra husmanni Kunz, 1977
Nitocra lacustris (Schmankevitsch, 1875)
Nitocra langi Karanovic, Eberhard, Cooper & Guzik, 2015
Nitocra mediterranea Brian, 1928
Nitocra pontica Boeck, 1865
Nitocra pori Karanovic, Eberhard, Cooper & Guzik, 2015
Nitocra pusilla Sars G.O., 1911
Nitocra reducta Schäfer, 1936
Nitocra rijekana Petkovski, 1954
Nitocra sewelli Gurney, 1927
Nitocra spinipes Boeck, 1865
Nitocra typica Boeck, 1865

Literature

original description

Boeck, A. (1865). Oversigt over de ved Norges Kyster jagttagne Copepoder henhorende til Calanidernes, Cyclopidernes og Harpactidernes Familier. [Overview of the Copepods hunted on the coast of Norway belonging to the families Calanoidae, Cyclopoidae and Harpacticodidae.]. Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania. 1864: 226-282 [for 1864 however published in 1865].

basis of record

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

additional source

Lang, K. (1965). Copepoda Harpacticoida from the Californian Pacific coast. Kungliga Svenska Vetensk-Akademiens Handlingar, Fjarde Serien. Almquist & Wiksell, Stockholm. 10(2):1-560, figs. 1-303, pls. 1-6.

additional source

Gómez, S., N.K. Carrasco & F.N. Morales-Serna. (2012). A new species of Nitocra Boeck, 1865 (Harpacticoida, Ameiridae, Ameirinae) from South Africa, with notes on its ecology and remarks on the statusof Nitocra sewelli husmanni Kunz, 1976. Zookeys. 244:33-58.

Genbank

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Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Nitocra Boeck, 1865. 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:157705

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


not marine, not brackish, fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

EPPO invasive plants:
listed This species is an invasive alien plant being managed in countries that are member of the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO)

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Last modified

2023-08-07 by T. Chad Walter

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