Copepoda name details
Parastenhelia spinosa (Fischer, 1860)
116446 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:116446)
alternative representation
Species
Harpacticus spinosus Fischer, 1860 · unaccepted
Parastenhelia forficula (Claus, 1863) · unaccepted
- Subspecies Parastenhelia spinosa bulbosa Wells, 1963
- Subspecies Parastenhelia spinosa bulgarica Apostolov, 1968
- Subspecies Parastenhelia spinosa littoralis Vervoort, 1964
- Subspecies Parastenhelia spinosa spinosa (Fischer, 1860)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fischer, S. (1860). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Entomostraceen. [Contributions to the knowledge of Entomostraca.]. <em>Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch - Naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung.</em> 8, Abt. 3:645-682, pls. 20-22., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16025063 [details] 
(of Harpacticus spinosus Fischer, 1860) Fischer, S. (1860). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Entomostraceen. [Contributions to the knowledge of Entomostraca.]. <em>Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch - Naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung.</em> 8, Abt. 3:645-682, pls. 20-22., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16025063 [details]
(of Harpacticus spinosus Fischer, 1860) Fischer, S. (1860). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Entomostraceen. [Contributions to the knowledge of Entomostraca.]. <em>Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch - Naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung.</em> 8, Abt. 3:645-682, pls. 20-22., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16025063 [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Parastenhelia spinosa (Fischer, 1860). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=116446 on 2025-11-17
original description
Fischer, S. (1860). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Entomostraceen. [Contributions to the knowledge of Entomostraca.]. <em>Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch - Naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung.</em> 8, Abt. 3:645-682, pls. 20-22., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16025063 [details]
original description (of Harpacticus spinosus Fischer, 1860) Fischer, S. (1860). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Entomostraceen. [Contributions to the knowledge of Entomostraca.]. <em>Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch - Naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung.</em> 8, Abt. 3:645-682, pls. 20-22., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16025063 [details]
context source (Bermuda) Coull, B.C. (1970). Shallow water meiobenthos of the Bermuda platform. <em>Oecologia, Berlin.</em> 4:325-357. [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Huys, R. (2001). Copepoda - Harpacticoida. <em>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.</em> 50:268-280. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Apostolov, A. & T.M. Marinov. (1988). Copepoda Harpacticoida (morski kharpaktikoidi). [Copepoda, Harpacticoida (marine harpacticoids).]. <em>Fauna Bulgarica, Fauna Bolgarii. Izd. B'lg. Akad. Nauk, in Aedibus Academiae Scientiarum Bulgaricae, Sofia. Scient. Bulgaricae, Sofia.</em> 18:1-384. (Bulgarian.). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Chislenko, L.L. (1977). Garpaktitsidy (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) s gubok zemli Frantsa-Iosifa.[ Harpacticoids (Copepoda Harpacticoidea) from sponges of Franz Josef Land.]. <em>In: Biotsenosy shel'fa zemli Frantsa-Iosifa i fauna sopredel'nykh akuatorii. Issledovaniya Fauny Morei.</em> 14(22):237-276, figs. 1-20, tab. (16-iii-1977, Russian with English summary). [details] Available for editors [request]
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.]. <em>Institut Biologii Yuzh'nykh Morei, Akademiya Nauk USSR, Naukova Dumka, Kiev.</em> 536 pp. (In Russian.). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Mielke, W. (1974). Eulitorale Harpacticoidea (Copepoda) von Spitzbergen. [Eulitoral Harpacticoids (Copepoda) from Spitsbergen.]. <em>Mikrofauna Meeresbodens, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse.</em> 37:1-52, figs. 1-28. (16-viii-1974). (Also in: Abh. mat.-nat. Kl. Akad. Wiss. Mainz, 1974). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Vervoort, W. (1964). Free-living Copepoda from Ifaluk Atoll in the Caroline Islands with notes on related species. <em>Bulletin. United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution: Washington, DC (USA).</em> 236: 1-431. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Yoo, K.I. & W. Lee. (1995). Marine harpacticoid copepods from Korean waters. Journal of the Yellow Sea 1:34-49. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kornev, P.N. & E.C. Chertoprud. (2008). Veslonogiye rakoobraznyye otryada Harpactiocida Belogo morya. Morfologiya, sistematika, ekologiya. [Copepod Crustaceans of the Order Harpactiocida of the White Sea. Morphology, Systematics, Ecology.]. <em>Biology Faculty, Moscow State University. Tovarishchestvo Nauchmikh Izdanii, KMK, Moscow.</em> 370 pp. (Russian). [details] Available for editors [request]
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. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Alper, A. (2009). [Determination of the interstitial and phytal Harpacticoida (Crustacea, Copepoda) fauna of the coast of Datca-Bozburun (Mugla, Turkey) Specially Protected Area.]. <em>Ph.D. Thesis, Balikesir University, Balikesir, Turkey.</em> 150 pp. [In Turkish.]. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Alper, A., S. Karaytug & S. Sak. (2010). Interstitial and phytal Harpacticoida (Crustacea: Copepoda) inhabiting the mediolittoral zone of the Datca-Bozburun Peninsulas (Mugla, Turkey). <em>SDU Journal of Science (E-Journal).</em> 5(1):16-28. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Harpacticus spinosus Fischer, 1860) Fischer, S. (1860). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Entomostraceen. [Contributions to the knowledge of Entomostraca.]. <em>Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch - Naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung.</em> 8, Abt. 3:645-682, pls. 20-22., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16025063 [details]
context source (Bermuda) Coull, B.C. (1970). Shallow water meiobenthos of the Bermuda platform. <em>Oecologia, Berlin.</em> 4:325-357. [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Huys, R. (2001). Copepoda - Harpacticoida. <em>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.</em> 50:268-280. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Apostolov, A. & T.M. Marinov. (1988). Copepoda Harpacticoida (morski kharpaktikoidi). [Copepoda, Harpacticoida (marine harpacticoids).]. <em>Fauna Bulgarica, Fauna Bolgarii. Izd. B'lg. Akad. Nauk, in Aedibus Academiae Scientiarum Bulgaricae, Sofia. Scient. Bulgaricae, Sofia.</em> 18:1-384. (Bulgarian.). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Chislenko, L.L. (1977). Garpaktitsidy (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) s gubok zemli Frantsa-Iosifa.[ Harpacticoids (Copepoda Harpacticoidea) from sponges of Franz Josef Land.]. <em>In: Biotsenosy shel'fa zemli Frantsa-Iosifa i fauna sopredel'nykh akuatorii. Issledovaniya Fauny Morei.</em> 14(22):237-276, figs. 1-20, tab. (16-iii-1977, Russian with English summary). [details] Available for editors
[request]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.]. <em>Institut Biologii Yuzh'nykh Morei, Akademiya Nauk USSR, Naukova Dumka, Kiev.</em> 536 pp. (In Russian.). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Mielke, W. (1974). Eulitorale Harpacticoidea (Copepoda) von Spitzbergen. [Eulitoral Harpacticoids (Copepoda) from Spitsbergen.]. <em>Mikrofauna Meeresbodens, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse.</em> 37:1-52, figs. 1-28. (16-viii-1974). (Also in: Abh. mat.-nat. Kl. Akad. Wiss. Mainz, 1974). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Vervoort, W. (1964). Free-living Copepoda from Ifaluk Atoll in the Caroline Islands with notes on related species. <em>Bulletin. United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution: Washington, DC (USA).</em> 236: 1-431. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Yoo, K.I. & W. Lee. (1995). Marine harpacticoid copepods from Korean waters. Journal of the Yellow Sea 1:34-49. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kornev, P.N. & E.C. Chertoprud. (2008). Veslonogiye rakoobraznyye otryada Harpactiocida Belogo morya. Morfologiya, sistematika, ekologiya. [Copepod Crustaceans of the Order Harpactiocida of the White Sea. Morphology, Systematics, Ecology.]. <em>Biology Faculty, Moscow State University. Tovarishchestvo Nauchmikh Izdanii, KMK, Moscow.</em> 370 pp. (Russian). [details] Available for editors
[request]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. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Alper, A. (2009). [Determination of the interstitial and phytal Harpacticoida (Crustacea, Copepoda) fauna of the coast of Datca-Bozburun (Mugla, Turkey) Specially Protected Area.]. <em>Ph.D. Thesis, Balikesir University, Balikesir, Turkey.</em> 150 pp. [In Turkish.]. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Alper, A., S. Karaytug & S. Sak. (2010). Interstitial and phytal Harpacticoida (Crustacea: Copepoda) inhabiting the mediolittoral zone of the Datca-Bozburun Peninsulas (Mugla, Turkey). <em>SDU Journal of Science (E-Journal).</em> 5(1):16-28. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Introduced species vector dispersal United States part of the North Pacific Ocean (Marine Region) Debris: transport of species on human generated debris (dock) [details]