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

Nitocra spinipes Boeck, 1865

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted
Name Status: alternate representation

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Nitocra*	Boeck, 1865	accepted genus name
*Nitokra*	Boeck, 1865	orthographic variant
*Transfuga*	Schmankevitsch, 1875	synonym

Children

Nitocra spinipes spinipes Boeck, 1865

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Polish: nitokra żółtawa

Literature

original description	Boeck, A. (1865). Oversigt over de ved Norges Kyster jagttagne Copepoder henhorende til Calanidernes, Cyclopidernes og Harpactidernes Familier. [Overview of the Copepods hunted on the coast of Norway belonging to the families Calanoidae, Cyclopoidae and Harpacticodidae.]. Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania. 1864: 226-282 [for 1864 however published in 1865].
basis of record	Nivå Bay species list, Sjælland, Denmark
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	Pesta, O. (1932). Krebstiere oder Crustacea. I: Ruderfüsser oder Copepoda. 3. Unterordnung: Harpacticoida (1. und 2. Hälfte). [Crustaceans or Crustacea. I: Copepods. 3. Suborder: Harpacticoida (1st and 2nd half)]. In: Dahl, F. (ed.). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der Angrenzenden Meeresteile nach Ihren Merkmalen und nach Ihrer Lebensweise. Jena. 24:1-164, figs. 1-72, 1-92.
additional source	Bengtsson, B.E. & B. Bergstrom. (1982). Toxicity tests with Nitocra spinipes (Crustacea) and some metals released from a smelter industry. In: Müller, K. (ed.). Coastal research in the Gulf of Bothnia. Monographiae Biologicae 45:439-444, fig. 1, tab. 1.
additional source	Dahms, H.U. (1988). Postembryonic development of Harpacticoida (Crustacea, Copepoda) and its significance for the reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships. Ph.D. Thesis, Universität Oldenburg. 280 pp.
additional source	Griga, R.E. (1960). Razvitie nekotorykh Harpacticoida Chernogo morya. [Development of some Black Sea harpacticoids.]. Trudy Sevastopol'skoy Biologicheskoy Stantsii, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Transactions of the Sevastopol Biological Station). 13:68-77, figs. 1-4. (Russian with English summary.).
additional source	Lang, K. (1936). Undersökningar över Öresund. Untersuchungen aus dem Öresund. XX. Harpacticiden aus dem Öresund. [Surveys over the Öresund. Untersuchungen aus dem Öresund. XX. Harpacticide aus dem Öresund.]. Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapets Handlingar, new series,. 46(8):1-52, figs. 1-148. [Lunds Universitets Arsskrift, N.F. 2(31)8:1-52.].
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	Dussart, B.H. (1967). Les Copépodes des eaux continentales d'Europe occidentale. Tome I: Calanoïdes et Harpacticoïdes. [Copepods of the continental waters of Western Europe. Volume I: Calanoids and Harpacticoids.]. N. Boubée et Cie, Paris. 500 pp.
additional source	Damian-Georgescu, A. (1970). Copepoda Harpacticoida (forme de apa dulce). Fauna Republicii Socialiste Romania, Crustacea 4(11): 1-252, figs. 1-114. (14-vii-1970).
additional source	Kiefer, F. (1960). Psammobionte Ruderfusskrebse (Crust. Cop.) aus dem Gebiet der Unterweser und von der Insel Helgoland. [Psammobiont copepods (Crust. Cop.) from the Lower Weser region and from the island of Heligoland. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 165(1-2):30-36, figs. 1-39. (vii-1960).
additional source	Kahan, D. & M. Azoury. (1981). Laboratory cultivation of Nitocra spinipes Boeck from the solar pond (Gulf of Aqaba - Red Sea). European Mariculture Society, Special Publication 6: 117-131.
additional source	Abraham, S. & U.K. Gopalan. (1975). Growth of an estuarine harpacticoid copepod Nitocra spinipes Boeck cultured in the laboratory. In: Third All-India Symposium on Estuarine Biology. Bulletin of the Department of Marine Science, University of Cochin 7(2):309-318, figs. 1-15a. (xii-1975)
additional source	Chang, C.Y. (2009). Illustrated encyclopedia of fauna & flora of Korea. Vol. 42. Inland-water Copepoda. Jeonghaeng-sa, Ministry of Education, Seoul, South Korea. 42:1-687.
additional source	Wilson, C.B. (1932). The copepods of the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 158:1-635, figs. 1-316, pls. 1-41.
additional source	Letova, V.N. (1982). Harpacticoida (Crustacea, Copepoda) ilisto peschano litorali vostochnogo Murmana. [Harpacticoida (Crustacea, Copepoda) from the mud-sandy littoral of the east Murman. ]. In: Skarlato, O.A. (ed.). Bespozvonochnye pribrezhnykh biotsenozov severnogo ledovitego. Marine invertebrates of coastal biocenoses of the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Issledovaniya Fauny Morei. 29(37):46-75, figs. 1-22. (27-xii-1982, Russian with English summary).
additional source	Apostolov, A. (1972). Catalogue des Copépodes Harpacticoïdes marins de la Mer Noire. [Catalog of marine Harpacticoid Copepods of the Black Sea.]. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 188(3-4):202-254, figs. 1-224. (iii/iv-1972).
additional source	Sazhina, L.I. (1985). Naupliusy massovykh vidov pelagickeskikh kopepod Mirovogo okeana. (Naupliuses of mass species of the world's oceans.) Naukova Dumka, Kiev 238pp.
additional source	Gopalan, U.K. (1977). Experimental mass culture of a harpacticoid copepod Nitocra spinipes Boeck. In: Qasim, S.Z. (ed.). Proceedings of the Symposium on Warm Water Zooplankton, UNESCO/NIO, Goa. Special Publication of the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa :558-562, figs. 1-2.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Nitocra spinipes Boeck, 1865. 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:428733