Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Harpacticoida > Family Leptopontiidae > Subfamily Arenopontiinae > Genus Arenopontia

Arenopontia problematica Masry, 1970

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Arenopontia*	Kunz, 1937	accepted genus name
*Arenopontia (Arenopontia)*	Kunz, 1937	synonym

Species group names

*Arenopontia (Arenopontia) problematica*	Masry, 1970	synonym

Literature

original description	Masry, D. (1970). Ecological study of some sandy beaches along the Israeli Mediterranean coast, with a description of the interstitial harpacticoids (Crustacea, Copepoda). Cahiers de Biologie Marine 11(3):229-258, figs. 1-16, pls. 1-3, tab. 1.
additional source	Sak, S., R. Huys & S. Karaytug. (2008). Disentangling the subgeneric division of Arenopontia Kunz, 1937: resurrection of Psammoleptastacus Pennak, 1942, re-examination of Neoleptastacus spinicaudatus Nicholls, 1945, and proposal of two new genera and a new generic classification (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Arenopontiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 152(3):409-458.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Arenopontia problematica Masry, 1970. 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:348964