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

Monoculus Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: unaccepted

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
additional source	International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. (1954). Opinion 288. Suppression under the plenary powers, of the generic name 'Monoculus' Linnaeus, 1758 (systematic position indeterminate) and matters incidental thereto. Opinions and Declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 8: 63-72. (12 October 1954).
additional source	Bailey, J.L. (1951). Support for Professor Munro Fox's proposal that the generic name ' Monoculus' Linnaeus, 1758, should be suppressed under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 2(11):345. (28-ix-1951)
additional source	Boxshall, G.A. (2007). Crustacean classification: on-going controversies and unresolved problems. Zootaxa. 1668:313-325.
additional source	Cuvier, G. (1797). Tableau élémentaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux. [Elementary table of the natural history of animals.]. Baudoin, Paris. i-xvi, 1-710, Pl. 1-14. [pdf is for copepods :449-456].
status source	Fox, H.M. (1951). Proposed suppression under the plenary powers of the generic name 'Monoculus' Linnaeus, 1758. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 2:37-39. (20-iv-1951).
status source	International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. (1954). Opinion 288. Suppression under the plenary powers, of the generic name 'Monoculus' Linnaeus, 1758 (systematic position indeterminate) and matters incidental thereto. Opinions and Declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 8: 63-72. (12 October 1954).

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Monoculus Linnaeus, 1758. 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:347526