Copepoda taxon details
Hirodaiidae Aneesh, Helna, Kumar & Maran, 2024
1767834 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1767834)
accepted
Family
Uranoscopicolaidae Aneesh, Helna, Kumar & Venmathi Maran, 2023 · unaccepted > unavailable name (The generic name...)
The generic name ‘Uranoscopicola’ is not only unavailable (it was never proposed for a zoological taxon), the nominal genus-group taxon it could have denoted if it had been proposed as valid, was not originally included and can therefore not be fixed
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Aneesh, P.T., A.K. Helna, A.B. Kumar & B.A. Venmathi Maran. (2024). Hirodaiidae a replacement name for the unavailable family-group name Uranoscopicolaidae Aneesh, Helena, Kumar and Maran, 2023 (Crustacea: Copepoda: Cyclopoida). <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 58(37-40):1491-1492., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2387793 [details] Available for editors 
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Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Hirodaiidae Aneesh, Helna, Kumar & Maran, 2024. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1767834 on 2025-11-21
original description
Aneesh, P.T., A.K. Helna, A.B. Kumar & B.A. Venmathi Maran. (2024). Hirodaiidae a replacement name for the unavailable family-group name Uranoscopicolaidae Aneesh, Helena, Kumar and Maran, 2023 (Crustacea: Copepoda: Cyclopoida). <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 58(37-40):1491-1492., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2387793 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Uranoscopicolaidae Aneesh, Helna, Kumar & Venmathi Maran, 2023) Aneesh, P.T., A.K. Helna, A.B. Kumar & B.A. Venmathi Maran. (2023). Proposal of a new family for Hirodai ohtsukai gen. n. et sp. n. (Crustacea: Copepoda) infesting Uranoscopus guttatus Cuvier, 1829 (Perciformes: Uranoscopidae) from the south-west coast of India. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 57(33-36):1495-1515., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2259556 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]original description (of Uranoscopicolaidae Aneesh, Helna, Kumar & Venmathi Maran, 2023) Aneesh, P.T., A.K. Helna, A.B. Kumar & B.A. Venmathi Maran. (2023). Proposal of a new family for Hirodai ohtsukai gen. n. et sp. n. (Crustacea: Copepoda) infesting Uranoscopus guttatus Cuvier, 1829 (Perciformes: Uranoscopidae) from the south-west coast of India. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 57(33-36):1495-1515., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2259556 [details] Available for editors
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