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 subterranea Kunz, 1937

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) subterranea*	Kunz, 1937	synonym

Literature

original description	Kunz, H. (1937). Zur Kenntnis der Harpacticoiden des Kustengrundwassers der Kieler Forde. (Studien an marinen Copepoden. I). Kieler Meeresforschungen. 2(1):95-115, figs. 1-51. (x-1937).
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.
additional source	Apostolov, A. & T.M. Marinov. (1988). Copepoda Harpacticoida (morski kharpaktikoidi). Copepoda, Harpacticoida (marine harpacticoids). Fauna Bulgarica, Fauna Bolgarii. Izd. B'lg. Akad. Nauk, in Aedibus Academiae Scientiarum Bulgaricae, Sofia. Scient. Bulgaricae, Sofia. 18:1-384. (Bulgarian.).
additional source	Lindgren, E.W. (1976). Five species of Arenopontia (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from a North Carolina beach, U.S.A. Crustaceana, Leiden 30(3):229-240, figs. 1-5, tab. 1. (30-vi-1976)
additional source	Mordukhai-Boltovskoy, F.D., ed. (1969). Rakoobraznye. (Crustacea). Opredetel' fauny Chernogo i Azovskogo more, 2. Svobodnozhivushchie bespozvonochnye. [Crustacea. Identification key to the fauna of the Black and Azov Seas, 2. Freeliving invertebrates.]. Institut Biologii Yuzh'nykh Morei, Akademiya Nauk USSR, Naukova Dumka, Kiev. 536 pp. (In Russian.).
additional source	Marinov, T. (1971). Kharpatikoidi ot b'lgarskoto kraibrezhnie na Cherno more.[ Harpacticoides of the Bulgarian Black Sea coast.]. Izvestiya Naucnoizslegdovatelskiya Institut Ribini Stop. Okeanologiya, Varna. 11: 43-87, figs. 1-39. (17-xii-1971, Bulgarian with English and Russian summaries).
additional source	Apostolov, A. (1973). Sur divers Harpacticoïdes (Copépodes) de la mer Noire. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 190(1-2):88-110, figs. 1-22. (i/ii-1973).

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Arenopontia subterranea Kunz, 1937. 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:348966