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

Zaus Goodsir, 1845

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Zaus abbreviatus Sars G.O., 1904
Zaus aurelii Poppe, 1884
Zaus caeruleus Campbell, 1929
Zaus goodsiri Brady, 1880
Zaus schaeferi Klie, 1949
Zaus spinatus Goodsir, 1845

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Japanese: ザウスソコミジンコ属

Literature

original description	Goodsir, H.D.S. (1845). On several new species of crustaceans allied to Saphirina. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 16: 325-327. Pl. 11. (xi-1845).
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	Goodsir, H.D.S. (1845). On several new species of crustaceans allied to Saphirina. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 16: 325-327. Pl. 11. (xi-1845).
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	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	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	Nicholls, A.G. (1942). A review of the genus Zaus Goodsir, and a description of two species of Laophonte Philippi (Copepoda, Harpacticoida). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)9:119-127, figs. 1-3. (ii-1942)

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Zaus Goodsir, 1845. 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:115352