In the present, provisional inventory, World strictly subterranean freshwater species, as well as species from anchialine groundwater habitats, are listed. Marine interstitial taxa not listed.
Species described before 1986 according to Rouch's (1986) review.
Definition of "subterranean" taxa, geonemy and ecology after Botosaneanu - Stygofauna Mundi (1986) (characters "alfa" and "beta" substituted by "a" and "b"). Limited or particular geonemies are detailed. For some taxa, marked with "+", more information is given on their systematics, ecology and geonemy, and publication data.
Enclosed in brackets the number of groundwater species and subspecies at present known.

A selected World bibliography on subterranean hapacticoid copepods can be found in: Rouch R. (1984) Copepoda: les harpacticoides souterraines des eaux douces continentales. Stygofauna Mundi: 321-355; Rouch R. (1994). Copepoda. Encyclopaedia Biospeologica. Societé de Biospéologie, Moulis, Bucarest: 105-111; Bodin P. (1997). Catalogue of the new marine Harpacticoid Copepods (1997 Edition). Doc. de travail de l' I.R. Sc. N. B., 89, pp.304.

Information and/or suggestion regarding new described species or species described after 1995, as well as improving of the list, will be welcome. Please contact the following address: pesce@univaq.it



  • AMEIRIDAE Monard, 1927 [104]

  • CANTHOCAMPTIDAE Brady, 1880 [233]

  • CHAPPUISIIDAE Chappuis, 1940 [2]

  • CLETODIDAE Scott, 1904 [1]

  • CRISTACOXIDAE Huys, 1990 [1]

  • DARCYTHOMPSONIIDAE Lang, 1936 [3]

  • DIOSACCIDAE Sars, 1906 [9]

  • ECTINOSOMATIDAE Sars, 1911 [8]

  • LAOPHONTIDAE Scott, 1904 [2]

  • LATIREMIDAE Bozic, 1969 [1]

  • LEPTASTACIDAE sensu Huys, 1992 [2]

  • LEPTOPONTIIDAE sensu Martinez-Arbizu & Moura, 1994 [13]

  • NOVOCRINIIDAE Huys & Iliffe, 1998 [1]

  • PARASTENOCARIDIDAE Chappuis, 1933 [230]

  • PHYLLOGNATHOPODIDAE Gurney, 1932 [2]

  • ROTUNDICLIPEIDAE Huys, 1988 [1]

  • SUPERORNATIREMIDAE Huys, 1996 [9]

  • TETRAGONICIPITIDAE Lang, 1944 [2]



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    CHECKLIST OF THE ITALIAN COPEPODS
    An Electronic Update to the "Checklist delle specie della fauna italiana. Copepoda"
    Calderini ed. Italy (1995)



    ZOOMORPHOLOGY
    Carl voon Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
    An excellent and updated Web Site on Copepods,
    with lot of information on groundwater taxa

    VI International Conference on Copepoda
    Oldenburg (Germany): July 29 - August 3, 1996

    VII International Conference on Copepoda
    Curitiba, Brazil - 25-31 July 1999



    RELEVANT REFERENCES

    HUYS, R., J.M. GEE, C.G. MOORE & R. HAMOND, 1996. Marine and brackish water harpacticoid copepods. Part 1. In: R.S.K. Barnes & J.H. Crothers eds, Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series), NO. 51: i-viii, 1-352.

    HUYS, R. & S. OHTSUKA, 1993. A new species of Syrticola Willems Claeys, 1982 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from Japan with notes on the type species. - Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist., Zool., 59(l): 83-94.

    HUYS, R. & S. CONROY-DALTON, 1996. A revision of Leptopontia T. Scott (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) with description of six new species. - Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 118: 197-239.

    MARTINEZ ARBIZU, P. & G. MOURA, 1994. The phylogenetic position of the Cylindropsyllinae Sars (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) and the systematic status of the Leptopontiinae Lang. - Zool. Beitr. N. F., 35(l): 55-77.




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