Canadian Register of Marine Species - Megacyclops viridis viridis (Jurine, 1820)

CaRMS taxon details

Megacyclops viridis viridis (Jurine, 1820)

AphiaID

729868 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:729868)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Subspecies

Type taxon of

Megacyclops Kiefer, 1927

Parent

Megacyclops viridis (Jurine, 1820) represented as Megacyclops viridis viridis (Jurine, 1820)

Original name

Monoculus quadricornis viridis Jurine, 1820

Synonymised names

Megacyclops viridis (Jurine, 1820) · alternative representation

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Jurine, L. (1820). Histoire des Monocles, qui se trouvent aux environs de Genève. [History of the Monocles, which are found around Geneva.]. Genève & Paris. 258 pp, pls. 1-22. (Partial copy.). [details]

(of ) Jurine, L. (1820). Histoire des Monocles, qui se trouvent aux environs de Genève. [History of the Monocles, which are found around Geneva.]. Genève & Paris. 258 pp, pls. 1-22. (Partial copy.). [details]

Taxonomic citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Megacyclops viridis viridis (Jurine, 1820). Accessed through: Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=729868 on 2026-01-15

Regional species database citation

Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2026). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Megacyclops viridis viridis (Jurine, 1820). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=729868 on 2026-01-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2013-04-20 11:25:22Z

created

Walter, T. Chad

2019-09-25 12:25:20Z

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Walter, T. Chad

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original description Jurine, L. (1820). Histoire des Monocles, qui se trouvent aux environs de Genève. [History of the Monocles, which are found around Geneva.]. Genève & Paris. 258 pp, pls. 1-22. (Partial copy.). [details]

original description (of ) Jurine, L. (1820). Histoire des Monocles, qui se trouvent aux environs de Genève. [History of the Monocles, which are found around Geneva.]. Genève & Paris. 258 pp, pls. 1-22. (Partial copy.). [details]

additional source Samraoui, B. (2002). Branchiopoda (Ctenopoda and Anomopoda) and Copepoda from eastern Numidia, Algeria. Hydrobiologia 470: 173-179. [details] Available for editors

additional source Colom, G. (1957). Biogeografia de las Baleares (La Formacion de las Islas y el origin de su flora y de su fauna.). Estudio General Lu Liano de Mallorca, Serie ceintifica. 1:1-568, figs. 1-119., available online at http://pdf is partial [Los crustaceos de las aguas dulces :455-475] [details] Available for editors

additional source Perbiche-Neves, G., P.H.C. Corgosinho, D. Previattelli, E. Suárez-Morales, M.G. Nogueira & C.E.F. Rocha. (2025). Catalogue for identification of the most common lacustrine and riverine cyclopoid copepod (Crustacea) species in plankton of La Plata Basin, South America. Zoologia (Curitiba). 42: 1-47. e24023., available online at https://www.scielo.br/j/zool/a/LfjcJw4Dp6nhgFsgDcPwQTH/?lang=en [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
English	green copepod [from synonym]	[details]
German	Grüner Hüpferling [from synonym]	[details]

To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) (from synonym Megacyclops viridis (Jurine, 1820))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Megacyclops viridis (Jurine, 1820))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Megacyclops viridis) (from synonym Megacyclops viridis (Jurine, 1820))
To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 8 proteins) (from synonym Megacyclops viridis (Jurine, 1820))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (10 records) (from synonym Megacyclops viridis (Jurine, 1820))