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

Cholidya polypi Farran, 1914

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cholidya*	Farran, 1914	accepted genus name
*Cholydia*	Farran, 1914	orthographic variant

Species group names

*Cholydiella polypi*	(Farran, 1914)	synonym

Literature

original description	Farran, G.P. (1914). Description of a harpacticoid copepod parasitic on an Octopus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)13:472-475, pl. 21. (v-1914)
basis of record	Huys, R. (2001). Copepoda - Harpacticoida. In: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds.) European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50:268-280.
additional source	Humes, A.G. & J.R. Voight. (1997). Cholidya polypi (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Tisbidae), a parasite of deep-sea octopuses in the North Atlantic and northeastern Pacific. Ophelia. 46(1): 65-81.
additional source	Huys, R. (2016). Harpacticoid copepods—their symbiotic associations and biogenic substrata: a review. . In Huys, R. (Ed.), Recent Developments in Taxonomy and Biodiversity of Symbiotic Copepoda (Crustacea) – A Volume in Celebration of the Career of Prof. Il-Hoi Kim. Zootaxa. 4174:448-729.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Cholidya polypi Farran, 1914. 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:116630