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

Amphiascus Sars G.O., 1905

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Paramphiascopsis*	Lang, 1944	synonym

Children

Amphiascus giesbrechti Sars G.O., 1906
Amphiascus humphriesi Roe, 1960
Amphiascus pallidus Sars G.O., 1906
Amphiascus paromolae (Soyer, 1973)
Amphiascus parvulus (Claus, 1866)
Amphiascus perplexus (Thompson I.C. & Scott A., 1903)
Amphiascus pestai Monard, 1935
Amphiascus polapinquus Marcus, 1966
Amphiascus pygmaeus (Norman & Scott T., 1905)
Amphiascus rufescens Brian, 1925
Amphiascus soyeri (Lang, 1965)
Amphiascus thalestroides Sars G.O., 1911
Amphiascus triarticulatus (Moore, 1976)
Paramphiascopsis longirostris (Claus, 1863)

Literature

original description	Sars, G.O. (1905). Pacifische Plankton-Crustaceen. (Ergebnisse einer Reise nach dem Pacific. Schauinsland 1896—1897). II. Brackwasser-Crustaceen von den Chatham-Inseln. [Pacific plankton crustaceans. (Results of a voyage to the Pacific. Schauinsland 1896—1897). II. Brackish water crustaceans from the Chatham Islands.]. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik. 21(4):371-414.
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	Lang, K. (1965). Copepoda Harpacticoida from the Californian Pacific coast. Kungliga Svenska Vetensk-Akademiens Handlingar, Fjarde Serien. Almquist & Wiksell, Stockholm. 10(2):1-560, figs. 1-303, pls. 1-6.
additional source	Huys, R. (2009). Unresolved cases of type fixation, synonymy and homonymy in harpacticoid copepod nomenclature (Crustacea: Copepoda). Zootaxa. 2183:1-99.
additional source	Nicholls, A.G. (1939). Marine harpacticoids and cyclopoids from the shores of the St. Lawrence. Le Naturaliste Canadien, Quebec. 66(2):241-316, 28 figs.
additional source	Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.).
additional source	Noodt, W. (1955). Marmara denizi Harpacticoiden (Crust. Cop.). Marine Harpacticoiden (Crust. Cop.) aus dem Marmare Meer. [Marine Harpacticoida (Crust. Cop.) from the Marmare Sea.]. Istanbul Universitesi Fen Fakultesi Mecmuasi. (B)20(1-2):49-94, figs. 1-103. (i/iv-1955).
additional source	Griga, R.E. (1961). Harpacticoida raiona Sevastopolya. [Harpacticoids of the Sebastopol region.]. Trudy Sevastopol'skoy Biologicheskoy Stantsii, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Transactions of the Sevastopol Biological Station). 14: 109-125. (Russian).
additional source	Sars, G.O. (1906). Copepoda Harpacticoida. Parts XI & XII. Thalestridae (continued), Diosaccidae (part). An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum. 5:133-156, pls. 81-96.
additional source	Bodin, P. (1997). Catalogue of the new marine Harpacticoid Copepods. Studiedocumenten van het K.B.I.N. = Documents de Travail de l'I.R.Sc.N.B., 89. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 89: 1-304.
additional source	Sars, G.O. (1905). Pacifische Plankton-Crustaceen. (Ergebnisse einer Reise nach dem Pacific. Schauinsland 1896—1897). II. Brackwasser-Crustaceen von den Chatham-Inseln. [Pacific plankton crustaceans. (Results of a voyage to the Pacific. Schauinsland 1896—1897). II. Brackish water crustaceans from the Chatham Islands.]. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik. 21(4):371-414.
source of synonymy	Willen, E. (2002). Notes on the systematic position of the Stenheliinae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) within the Thalestridimorpha and description of two new species from Motupore Island, Papua New Guinea. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 43(1): 27-42.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Amphiascus Sars G.O., 1905. 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:115305

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Amphiascus Sars G.O., 1905. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/b16c9583-3a90-45e0-bfca-da18fc934f92