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

Tetragonicipitidae Lang, 1944

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Pteropsyllidae*	Nicholls, 1944	synonym
*Tetragonicepsidae*	Lang, 1944	synonym

Children

Aigondiceps Fiers, 1995
Diagoniceps Willey, 1930
Laophontella Thompson I.C. & Scott A., 1903
Paraschizopera Wells, 1981
Phyllopodopsyllus Scott T., 1906
Protogoniceps Por, 1964
Pteropsyllus Scott T., 1906
Tetragoniceps Brady & Robertson, 1880

Literature

original description	Lang, K. (1944). Monographie der Harpacticiden (Vorlaufige Mitteilung). [Monograph of the Harpacticidae (Preliminary communication).]. Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri Ab, Uppsala. 39 pp. (19-ii-1944).
additional source	Costa, R.G.M. (2018). Distribuição espaço-temporal da Família Tetragonicipitidae Lang, 1944 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) em fundo de rodolitos no litoral do Nordeste, Brasil. [Spatio-temporal distribution of the Family Tetragonicipitidae Lang, 1944 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) on a rhodolith bottom on the coast of the Brazilian Northeast region.]. Dissertação de Mestrado, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. 47 pp. [In Portuguese; English abstract].
additional source	Coull, B.C. (1973). Harpacticoid copepod (Crustacea) of the family Tetragonicipitidae Lang: a review and revision with keys to the genera and species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 86(2):9-24, tabs. 1-2. (31-v-1973)

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Tetragonicipitidae Lang, 1944. 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:345994