Copepoda taxon details
Thermocyclops oithonoides (Sars G.O., 1863)
149779 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149779)
accepted
Species
Cyclops oithonoides Sars G.O., 1863 · alternative representation
Cyclops oithonoides oithonoides Sars G.O., 1863 · unaccepted
Mesocyclops oithonoides (Sars G.O., 1863) · unaccepted
(of Cyclops oithonoides Sars G.O., 1863) Sars, G.O. (1863). Oversigt af de indenlandske Ferskvandcopepoder. [Overview of the domestic Freshwater Copepods.]. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiana.</em> 1862:212-262., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44339019 [details] 
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Thermocyclops oithonoides (Sars G.O., 1863). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=149779 on 2026-01-28
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(of Cyclops oithonoides Sars G.O., 1863) Sars, G.O. (1863). Oversigt af de indenlandske Ferskvandcopepoder. [Overview of the domestic Freshwater Copepods.]. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiana.</em> 1862:212-262., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44339019 [details]
context source (Schelde) Maris, T., O. Beauchard, S. Van Damme, E. Van den Bergh, S. Wijnhoven & P. Meire. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. [Reference matrices and Ecotope areas Annex to the Evaluation methodology Scheldt estuary Study on “Ecotope areas and intactness index”. <em>Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke.</em> 35 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Azémar, F.; Fiers, F.; Tackx, M. (2002). Zooplankton taxonomic list - taxa found from Bath to Gent (Schelde) during winter and spring 2002. Unpublished data. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Alekseev, V.R. (1987). Opredelitel' presnovodnykh tsiklopov Evropesko chasti SSSR. T. 1. Kopepoditnye stadii starshikh vozrastov podsemestva Eucyclopinae. Key to freshwater Cyclopinae of the European USSR. Older copepodid instars of the subfamily Eucyclopinae.]. <em>Gosnii Ozern. i rechn. rybn. kh-va. L. 95 s. (Rukopis' dep. v VINITI 13.01.87, No. 286-B87).</em> 96 pp. [details] Available for editors
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additional source Dévai, I. (1977). Az Evezólabu Ránkok (Calanoida es Cyclopoida) Alrendjeinek kishatarozoja. [Identification book of the copepod suborders (Calanoida and Cyclopoida).]. <em>In: Felföldy, L. (ed.) Hydrobiology for water management praxis, Budapest, Vizügyi Dokumentációs és Továbbképzó Intézet.</em> vol. 5: 220 pp. (Hungarian). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Einsle, U. (1993). Crustacea: Copepoda: Calanoida und Cyclopoida. <em>In: Schwoerbel, J. & P. Zwick (eds.). Süsswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, Gustav Fischer Verlag.</em> 8(4-1):1-209. (German). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Chang, K.H. & T. Hanazato. (2004). Diel vertical migrations of invertebrate predators (Leptodora kindtii, Thermocyclops taihokuensis, and Mesocyclops sp.) in a shallow, eutrophic lake. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 528(1-3):249-259., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-004-3952-x [details]
additional source Dussart, B.H. (1969). Les Copépodes des eaux continentales d'Europe occidentale. Tome II: Cyclopoïdes et Biologie. [Copepods of the continental waters of Western Europe. Volume II: Cyclopoids and Biology.]. <em>N. Boubée et Cie, Paris, France.</em> 292 pp, figs. 1-121. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Dussart, B.H. & D. Defaye. (2001). Copepoda: Introduction to the Copepoda. (2nd edition)(revised and enlarged). <em>Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World. H.J.F. Dumont (ed.). SPB Academic Publishers, The Hague.</em> 16:1-344. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Franke, U. (1989). Katalog zur Sammlung limnischer Copepoden von Prof. Dr. Friedrich Kiefer (Mit einem Gesamtverzeichnis seiner Publikationen). [Catolog of the freshwater copepods of Dr. Friedrich Kiefer.]. <em>Carolinea Beiheft, Karlsrühe.</em> 5:1-433, figs. 1-2.
note: Catalog vial number(s): 1155, 1156, 2927, 3417, 3701, 4786, 5434, 5481, 597, 598, L321 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kiefer, F. (1978). Freilebende Copepoda. [Free-living Copepoda]. <em>In: Kiefer, F. & G. Fryer (eds.) Das Zooplankton der Binnengewässer, 2. Teil.; In: Elster, H.J. & W. Ohle (eds) Die Binnengewässer Einzeldarstellungen aus del Limnologie und ihren Nachbargebietien.</em> 26(2):1-343, figs. 1-22, pls. 1-96, tabs. 1-12, Beilage. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kiefer, F. (1929). Crustacea Copepoda. 2. Cyclopoida Gnathostoma. <em>Das Tierreich, Berlin und Leipzig.</em> 53:1-102. [German].
page(s): 82 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kiefer, F. (1954). Freilebenden Ruderfusskrebse (Crustacea Copepoda) aus Binnengewässern Marokkos. [Free-living copepods (Crustacea Copepoda) from inland waters of Morocco.]. <em>Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles et Physiques du Maroc.</em> 34:317-336, figs. 1-44. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kim, S.H. & J.H. Lee. (1999). Environmental studies of the lower part of Han River, IV. Zooplankton dynamics. <em>Korean Journal of Limnology.</em> 32(1):16-23. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lacroix, G. & F. Lescher-Moutoué. (1985). Diapause des cyclopides d'un écosystème lacustre peu profond (Lac de Créteil, France). [Diapause of cyclopids in a shallow lake ecosystem (Lake Créteil, France).]. <em>Annales de Limnologie.</em> 20(3):183-192, figs. 1-8, tab. 1. (English summary.). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Monchenko, V.I. (1974). Shchelepnoroti tsiklopodiny, tsiklopi (Cyclopidae). Gnathostoma, Cyclopoida, (Cyclopidae). [Sliver-clawed cyclopoids, Cyclops (Cyclopidae). Gnathnostoma, Cyclopoida, (Cyclopidae).]. <em>Fauna Ukrainy, Fauna of Ukraine, Vidavnitstvo Naukova Dumka, Kiev.</em> 27(3):1-452, figs. 1-142. (28-vi-1974, Ukrainian).
page(s): 391-397 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Naess, T., J.P. Nilssen & R. Demmo. (1993). Individual lake characteristics modify the life cycle and diapause habitat of two neighbouring populations of the cyclopoid copepod Thermocyclops oithonoides. <em>Canadian Journal of Zoology.</em> 71(8):1663-1672., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z93-233 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Nilssen, J.P. & S.B. Waervagen. (2000). Superficial ecosystem similarities vs. autecological stripping: the 'twin species' Mesocyclops leuckarti (Claus) and Thermocyclops oithonoides (Sars) - seasonal habitat utilisation and life history traits. Journal of Limnology 59(2):79-102. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Rylov, V.M. (1963). Freshwater Cyclopoida. Cyclopoida presnykh vod. <em>Fauna of USSR, Crustacea.</em> 3(3): i-vi, 1-314, figs. 1-79. ( Translation by Israel Program Scient. Trans. of Rylov, V.M. (1948). Cyclopoida presnyk vod. Cyclopoid fauna. Fauna SSSR Rakoobraznye, Moscow. 3(3):1-318, figs. 1-79. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Waervågen, S.B. & J.P. Nilssen. (2010). Life histories and seasonal dynamics of common boreal pelagic copepods (Crustacea, Copepoda) inhabiting an oligotrophic Fennoscandian lake. <em>Journal of Limnology.</em> 69(2):311-332. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Svetlichny, L., J.R. Strickler & U. Obertegger. (2022). Swimming and respiration in cyclopoid copepods Thermocyclops oithonoides and Oithona davisae and calanoid copepod Paracalanus parvus. <em>Journal Of Experimental Zoology Part A- Ecological And Integrative Physiology.</em> 337(6)::835–851. Jul 2022., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2643 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lazareva, V.I. & S.M. Zhdanova. (2023). The east asian invader, Thermocyclops taihokuensis (Harada 1931), versus the native Thermocyclops oithonoides (Sars 1863) (Crustacea, Cyclopoida): A comparative analysis of the morphology of two related species from water bodies of european Russia. <em>Biology Bulletin.</em> 50(8):1826–1837. English [Russian VERSION. Zoologichesky Zhurnal. 101(12):1337-1349. (DEC 2022.]. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Stenson, J.A.E. (1972). Fish predation effects on the species composition of the zooplankton community in eight small forest lakes. <em>Reports of the Institute of Freshwater Research, Drottningholm.</em> 52:132-148. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Dementev, M.S. (2015). Predvaritel'nyy obzor vodnykh bespozvonochnykh Tsentral'nogo Predkavkaz'ya (Severnyy Kavkaz) i prilegayushchikh gornykh territoriy. [Preliminary summary aquatic invertebrates in central Ciscaucasia (Nort Caucasus region) and adjacent mountain areas. ]. <em>Advances in Current Natural Sciences.</em> 6:102-118. [In Russian; English abstract]. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Havlíková, P. (2011). Srovnávací studie fluviálních jezer středního Polabí horní Lužnice a horní Svratky. [Comparing Study of Fluvial Lakes in Middle Part of Elbe River and Upper Parts of Lužnice and Svratka River.]. <em>Doctoral Dissertation, Přírodovědecká Fakulta, Univerzita Karlova, Prague, Czech Republic.</em> 207 pp. [In Czech; English abstract]., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/35207 [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (Schelde) Maris, T., O. Beauchard, S. Van Damme, E. Van den Bergh, S. Wijnhoven & P. Meire. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. [Reference matrices and Ecotope areas Annex to the Evaluation methodology Scheldt estuary Study on “Ecotope areas and intactness index”. <em>Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke.</em> 35 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Azémar, F.; Fiers, F.; Tackx, M. (2002). Zooplankton taxonomic list - taxa found from Bath to Gent (Schelde) during winter and spring 2002. Unpublished data. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Alekseev, V.R. (1987). Opredelitel' presnovodnykh tsiklopov Evropesko chasti SSSR. T. 1. Kopepoditnye stadii starshikh vozrastov podsemestva Eucyclopinae. Key to freshwater Cyclopinae of the European USSR. Older copepodid instars of the subfamily Eucyclopinae.]. <em>Gosnii Ozern. i rechn. rybn. kh-va. L. 95 s. (Rukopis' dep. v VINITI 13.01.87, No. 286-B87).</em> 96 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Dévai, I. (1977). Az Evezólabu Ránkok (Calanoida es Cyclopoida) Alrendjeinek kishatarozoja. [Identification book of the copepod suborders (Calanoida and Cyclopoida).]. <em>In: Felföldy, L. (ed.) Hydrobiology for water management praxis, Budapest, Vizügyi Dokumentációs és Továbbképzó Intézet.</em> vol. 5: 220 pp. (Hungarian). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Einsle, U. (1993). Crustacea: Copepoda: Calanoida und Cyclopoida. <em>In: Schwoerbel, J. & P. Zwick (eds.). Süsswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, Gustav Fischer Verlag.</em> 8(4-1):1-209. (German). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Chang, K.H. & T. Hanazato. (2004). Diel vertical migrations of invertebrate predators (Leptodora kindtii, Thermocyclops taihokuensis, and Mesocyclops sp.) in a shallow, eutrophic lake. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 528(1-3):249-259., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-004-3952-x [details]
additional source Dussart, B.H. (1969). Les Copépodes des eaux continentales d'Europe occidentale. Tome II: Cyclopoïdes et Biologie. [Copepods of the continental waters of Western Europe. Volume II: Cyclopoids and Biology.]. <em>N. Boubée et Cie, Paris, France.</em> 292 pp, figs. 1-121. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Dussart, B.H. & D. Defaye. (2001). Copepoda: Introduction to the Copepoda. (2nd edition)(revised and enlarged). <em>Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World. H.J.F. Dumont (ed.). SPB Academic Publishers, The Hague.</em> 16:1-344. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Franke, U. (1989). Katalog zur Sammlung limnischer Copepoden von Prof. Dr. Friedrich Kiefer (Mit einem Gesamtverzeichnis seiner Publikationen). [Catolog of the freshwater copepods of Dr. Friedrich Kiefer.]. <em>Carolinea Beiheft, Karlsrühe.</em> 5:1-433, figs. 1-2.
note: Catalog vial number(s): 1155, 1156, 2927, 3417, 3701, 4786, 5434, 5481, 597, 598, L321 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kiefer, F. (1978). Freilebende Copepoda. [Free-living Copepoda]. <em>In: Kiefer, F. & G. Fryer (eds.) Das Zooplankton der Binnengewässer, 2. Teil.; In: Elster, H.J. & W. Ohle (eds) Die Binnengewässer Einzeldarstellungen aus del Limnologie und ihren Nachbargebietien.</em> 26(2):1-343, figs. 1-22, pls. 1-96, tabs. 1-12, Beilage. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kiefer, F. (1929). Crustacea Copepoda. 2. Cyclopoida Gnathostoma. <em>Das Tierreich, Berlin und Leipzig.</em> 53:1-102. [German].
page(s): 82 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kiefer, F. (1954). Freilebenden Ruderfusskrebse (Crustacea Copepoda) aus Binnengewässern Marokkos. [Free-living copepods (Crustacea Copepoda) from inland waters of Morocco.]. <em>Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles et Physiques du Maroc.</em> 34:317-336, figs. 1-44. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kim, S.H. & J.H. Lee. (1999). Environmental studies of the lower part of Han River, IV. Zooplankton dynamics. <em>Korean Journal of Limnology.</em> 32(1):16-23. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lacroix, G. & F. Lescher-Moutoué. (1985). Diapause des cyclopides d'un écosystème lacustre peu profond (Lac de Créteil, France). [Diapause of cyclopids in a shallow lake ecosystem (Lake Créteil, France).]. <em>Annales de Limnologie.</em> 20(3):183-192, figs. 1-8, tab. 1. (English summary.). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Monchenko, V.I. (1974). Shchelepnoroti tsiklopodiny, tsiklopi (Cyclopidae). Gnathostoma, Cyclopoida, (Cyclopidae). [Sliver-clawed cyclopoids, Cyclops (Cyclopidae). Gnathnostoma, Cyclopoida, (Cyclopidae).]. <em>Fauna Ukrainy, Fauna of Ukraine, Vidavnitstvo Naukova Dumka, Kiev.</em> 27(3):1-452, figs. 1-142. (28-vi-1974, Ukrainian).
page(s): 391-397 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Naess, T., J.P. Nilssen & R. Demmo. (1993). Individual lake characteristics modify the life cycle and diapause habitat of two neighbouring populations of the cyclopoid copepod Thermocyclops oithonoides. <em>Canadian Journal of Zoology.</em> 71(8):1663-1672., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z93-233 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Nilssen, J.P. & S.B. Waervagen. (2000). Superficial ecosystem similarities vs. autecological stripping: the 'twin species' Mesocyclops leuckarti (Claus) and Thermocyclops oithonoides (Sars) - seasonal habitat utilisation and life history traits. Journal of Limnology 59(2):79-102. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Rylov, V.M. (1963). Freshwater Cyclopoida. Cyclopoida presnykh vod. <em>Fauna of USSR, Crustacea.</em> 3(3): i-vi, 1-314, figs. 1-79. ( Translation by Israel Program Scient. Trans. of Rylov, V.M. (1948). Cyclopoida presnyk vod. Cyclopoid fauna. Fauna SSSR Rakoobraznye, Moscow. 3(3):1-318, figs. 1-79. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Waervågen, S.B. & J.P. Nilssen. (2010). Life histories and seasonal dynamics of common boreal pelagic copepods (Crustacea, Copepoda) inhabiting an oligotrophic Fennoscandian lake. <em>Journal of Limnology.</em> 69(2):311-332. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Svetlichny, L., J.R. Strickler & U. Obertegger. (2022). Swimming and respiration in cyclopoid copepods Thermocyclops oithonoides and Oithona davisae and calanoid copepod Paracalanus parvus. <em>Journal Of Experimental Zoology Part A- Ecological And Integrative Physiology.</em> 337(6)::835–851. Jul 2022., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2643 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lazareva, V.I. & S.M. Zhdanova. (2023). The east asian invader, Thermocyclops taihokuensis (Harada 1931), versus the native Thermocyclops oithonoides (Sars 1863) (Crustacea, Cyclopoida): A comparative analysis of the morphology of two related species from water bodies of european Russia. <em>Biology Bulletin.</em> 50(8):1826–1837. English [Russian VERSION. Zoologichesky Zhurnal. 101(12):1337-1349. (DEC 2022.]. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Stenson, J.A.E. (1972). Fish predation effects on the species composition of the zooplankton community in eight small forest lakes. <em>Reports of the Institute of Freshwater Research, Drottningholm.</em> 52:132-148. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Dementev, M.S. (2015). Predvaritel'nyy obzor vodnykh bespozvonochnykh Tsentral'nogo Predkavkaz'ya (Severnyy Kavkaz) i prilegayushchikh gornykh territoriy. [Preliminary summary aquatic invertebrates in central Ciscaucasia (Nort Caucasus region) and adjacent mountain areas. ]. <em>Advances in Current Natural Sciences.</em> 6:102-118. [In Russian; English abstract]. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Havlíková, P. (2011). Srovnávací studie fluviálních jezer středního Polabí horní Lužnice a horní Svratky. [Comparing Study of Fluvial Lakes in Middle Part of Elbe River and Upper Parts of Lužnice and Svratka River.]. <em>Doctoral Dissertation, Přírodovědecká Fakulta, Univerzita Karlova, Prague, Czech Republic.</em> 207 pp. [In Czech; English abstract]., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/35207 [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Mesocyclops oithonoides (Sars G.O., 1863))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Cyclops oithonoides Sars G.O., 1863)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Thermocyclops oithonoides)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Mesocyclops oithonoides (Sars G.O., 1863))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Cyclops oithonoides Sars G.O., 1863)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Thermocyclops oithonoides)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
From editor or global species database
Image from synonym