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

Oithona minuta Scott T., 1894

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Oithona*	Baird, 1843	accepted genus name
*Oithonella*	Sars G.O., 1886	synonym
*Paroithona*	Farran, 1908	synonym
*Scribella*	Dana, 1846	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Ukrainian: Оітона мінута

Literature

original description	Scott, T. (1894). Report on Entomostraca from the Gulf of Guinea, collected by John Rattray, B.Sc. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Series 2, Zoology. 6(1):1-161, pls. 1-15.
basis of record	Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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: pp. 252-268
additional source	Scott, A. (1909). The Copepoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part I. Free-swimming, littoral and semi-parasitic Copepoda. Siboga Expeditie, Monograph, Leiden. 29:1-323, pls. 1-69.
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	Shuvalov, V.S. (1980). Veslonogiye rachki — tsiklopoidy semeystva Oithonidae Mirovogo okeana. [Copepoda crustaceans - Cyclopoida of the family Oithonidae of the world oceans.]. V serii: "Opredeliteli po faune SSSR", izdavayemoy Zoologicheskim institutom AN SSSR. Leningrad, "Nauka". 125:1-197, figs. 1-64. (24-v-1980, Russian.).
additional source	Rosendorn, I. (1917). Copepoda 1 der Deutschen Tiefsee Expedition. Die Gattung Oithona. [Copepoda 1 der Deutschen Tiefsee Expedition. [Copepoda 1 of the German Deep Sea Expedition. The genus Oithona.]. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition 'Valdivia'. 23:1-58, figs. 1-27, map 1.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Oithona minuta Scott T., 1894. 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:106650