Copepoda taxon details
Cyclops insignis Claus, 1857
247991 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:247991)
accepted
Species
Claus, C. (1857). Weitere Mittheilungen über die einheimischen Cyclopiden. [Further information on the native cyclopoids.]. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 23:205-210, pl. 11.
page(s): 209 [details]
page(s): 209 [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Cyclops insignis Claus, 1857. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=247991 on 2026-02-12
original description
Claus, C. (1857). Weitere Mittheilungen über die einheimischen Cyclopiden. [Further information on the native cyclopoids.]. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 23:205-210, pl. 11.
page(s): 209 [details]
basis of record Species composition of meso- and macrozooplankton of the Black Sea (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 Brady, G. S. (1892). A revision of the British species of freshwater Cyclopoidae and Calanidae. <em>Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland.</em> 11:68-120, fig. 1, pls. 1-14. [for 1891]. [details]
additional source Brandl, Z. & M. Lavicka. (2002). Morphological differentiation of some populations of the genus Cyclops (Copepoda: Cyclopoida) from Bohemia (Czech Republic). <em>Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae.</em> 66(3): 161-168. [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 Damian-Georgescu, A. (1963). Copepoda. Fam. Cyclopidae (forme de apa dulce). [Copepoda. Fam. Cyclopidae (freshwater forms).]. <em>Fauna Republicii Populare Romîne, Crustacea.</em> 4(6):1-205, figs. 1-105. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Forró, L. (2003). A Fulopszallas-Szabadszallas kornyeki szikes vizek rakfaunaja. [The microcrustacean fauna of the sodic waters in the vicinity of Fulopszallas- Szabadszallas.]. <em>Termeszetvedelmi Kozlemenyek.</em> 10: 241-250. (Hungarian). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Forró, L. (1981). Két faunára j Cyclops faj (Crustacea, Copepoda) a Hortobágyi nemzeti parkból. [Two cyclopoid species new to the Hungarian fauna from the Hortobágy National Park.]. <em>Allattani Kozlemenyek.</em> 68(1-4):61-65, figs. 1-2. (16-iv-1981, Hungarian with English summary). [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): 284, 373 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Herrick, C.L. (1895). Part I. Copepoda of Minnesota. <em>In: Herrick, C.L. & C.H. Turner (eds.). Second report of the State Zoologist including a synopsis of the Entomostraca of Minnesota. Geological Natural History Survery of Minnesota (Zoological Series.).</em> 2:41-138, 81 plates., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13322 [details]
additional source Grishanin, A.K. & A.P. Akifyev. (2005). The peculiarities of the radiation mutagenesis of Cyclops kolensis and Cyclops insignis (Crustacea, Copepoda). <em>Radiatsionnaya Biologiya Radioecologiya.</em> 45(3):294-298. (In Russian.). [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): 52 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kozminski, Z. (1927). Über die Variabilität der Cyclopiden aus der strenuus-Gruppe auf Grund von quantitativen Untersuchungen. O zmiennosti oczlików (Cyclopidae) z grupy strenuus na podstawie. [On the variability of the cyclopids from the strenuus group based on quantitative investigations.]. <em>Bulletin International de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences et des Lettres, Classe des Sciences Mathématiques et Naturelles.</em> (B), suppl.1:1-116, figs. 1-17, tabs. 1-19. [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): 210-214 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Langeland, A. (1978). Bestemmelsestabell over norske Cyclopoida Copepoda funnet i ferskvann (34 arter). [Key to Norwegian freshwater Cyclopoida Copepoda (34 species).]. <em>Rapport det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab, Museet, Trondheim, Zoologisk Serie, Report to the Royal Norwegian Association for the Sciences, the Museum, Trondheim. Zoological Series.</em> 4:1-21. (Norwegian). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lilljeborg, W. (1901). Synopsis specierum huc usque in Suecia observatarum generis Cyclopis, sive Bidrag till en Öfversigt af de inom Sverige iakttagna Arterna af Slägtet Cyclops. Kungliga Svenska Vetensk-Akademiens Handlingar, New Series 35(4):1-118, pls. 1-6. [details]
additional source Røen, U. (1957). Contributions to the biology of some Danish freeliving freshwater copepods. <em>Biologiya Skrifter Dan. Vid. Selsk.</em> 9(2):1-101, figs. 1-23. (13-xii-1957). [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 Yang, W.X., I. Mirabdullayev, H.U. Dahms, S. Chullasorn & J.S. Hwang. (2010). Karyology of Cyclops insignis, Thermocyclops crassus, and Megacyclops viridis (Copepoda, Cyclopoida). <em>Crustaceana.</em> 83(2):223-231., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/001121609x12596543952379 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Semeshin, V.F., L.V. Omelyanchuk, A.L. Alekseeva, E.A. Ivankina, N.G. Shevelyova & I.F. Zhimulev. (2011). DNA contents in nuclei of Cyclops kolensis and C. insignis (Crustacea, Copepoda). <em>Tsitologiya.</em> 53(3):285-289. (Russian)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1134/s1990519x11030102 [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]
additional source Grishanin, A.K. (2025). Effect of High Doses of γ-Radiation on the Development of Embryos of Cyclops insignis (Copepoda, Crustacea). <em>Inland Water Biology.</em> 18(5):1197-1199. Oct 2025., available online at https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082925601145 [details]
page(s): 209 [details]
basis of record Species composition of meso- and macrozooplankton of the Black Sea (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 Brady, G. S. (1892). A revision of the British species of freshwater Cyclopoidae and Calanidae. <em>Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland.</em> 11:68-120, fig. 1, pls. 1-14. [for 1891]. [details]
additional source Brandl, Z. & M. Lavicka. (2002). Morphological differentiation of some populations of the genus Cyclops (Copepoda: Cyclopoida) from Bohemia (Czech Republic). <em>Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae.</em> 66(3): 161-168. [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 Damian-Georgescu, A. (1963). Copepoda. Fam. Cyclopidae (forme de apa dulce). [Copepoda. Fam. Cyclopidae (freshwater forms).]. <em>Fauna Republicii Populare Romîne, Crustacea.</em> 4(6):1-205, figs. 1-105. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Forró, L. (2003). A Fulopszallas-Szabadszallas kornyeki szikes vizek rakfaunaja. [The microcrustacean fauna of the sodic waters in the vicinity of Fulopszallas- Szabadszallas.]. <em>Termeszetvedelmi Kozlemenyek.</em> 10: 241-250. (Hungarian). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Forró, L. (1981). Két faunára j Cyclops faj (Crustacea, Copepoda) a Hortobágyi nemzeti parkból. [Two cyclopoid species new to the Hungarian fauna from the Hortobágy National Park.]. <em>Allattani Kozlemenyek.</em> 68(1-4):61-65, figs. 1-2. (16-iv-1981, Hungarian with English summary). [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): 284, 373 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Herrick, C.L. (1895). Part I. Copepoda of Minnesota. <em>In: Herrick, C.L. & C.H. Turner (eds.). Second report of the State Zoologist including a synopsis of the Entomostraca of Minnesota. Geological Natural History Survery of Minnesota (Zoological Series.).</em> 2:41-138, 81 plates., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13322 [details]
additional source Grishanin, A.K. & A.P. Akifyev. (2005). The peculiarities of the radiation mutagenesis of Cyclops kolensis and Cyclops insignis (Crustacea, Copepoda). <em>Radiatsionnaya Biologiya Radioecologiya.</em> 45(3):294-298. (In Russian.). [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): 52 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kozminski, Z. (1927). Über die Variabilität der Cyclopiden aus der strenuus-Gruppe auf Grund von quantitativen Untersuchungen. O zmiennosti oczlików (Cyclopidae) z grupy strenuus na podstawie. [On the variability of the cyclopids from the strenuus group based on quantitative investigations.]. <em>Bulletin International de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences et des Lettres, Classe des Sciences Mathématiques et Naturelles.</em> (B), suppl.1:1-116, figs. 1-17, tabs. 1-19. [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): 210-214 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Langeland, A. (1978). Bestemmelsestabell over norske Cyclopoida Copepoda funnet i ferskvann (34 arter). [Key to Norwegian freshwater Cyclopoida Copepoda (34 species).]. <em>Rapport det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab, Museet, Trondheim, Zoologisk Serie, Report to the Royal Norwegian Association for the Sciences, the Museum, Trondheim. Zoological Series.</em> 4:1-21. (Norwegian). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lilljeborg, W. (1901). Synopsis specierum huc usque in Suecia observatarum generis Cyclopis, sive Bidrag till en Öfversigt af de inom Sverige iakttagna Arterna af Slägtet Cyclops. Kungliga Svenska Vetensk-Akademiens Handlingar, New Series 35(4):1-118, pls. 1-6. [details]
additional source Røen, U. (1957). Contributions to the biology of some Danish freeliving freshwater copepods. <em>Biologiya Skrifter Dan. Vid. Selsk.</em> 9(2):1-101, figs. 1-23. (13-xii-1957). [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 Yang, W.X., I. Mirabdullayev, H.U. Dahms, S. Chullasorn & J.S. Hwang. (2010). Karyology of Cyclops insignis, Thermocyclops crassus, and Megacyclops viridis (Copepoda, Cyclopoida). <em>Crustaceana.</em> 83(2):223-231., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/001121609x12596543952379 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Semeshin, V.F., L.V. Omelyanchuk, A.L. Alekseeva, E.A. Ivankina, N.G. Shevelyova & I.F. Zhimulev. (2011). DNA contents in nuclei of Cyclops kolensis and C. insignis (Crustacea, Copepoda). <em>Tsitologiya.</em> 53(3):285-289. (Russian)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1134/s1990519x11030102 [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]additional source Grishanin, A.K. (2025). Effect of High Doses of γ-Radiation on the Development of Embryos of Cyclops insignis (Copepoda, Crustacea). <em>Inland Water Biology.</em> 18(5):1197-1199. Oct 2025., available online at https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082925601145 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cyclops insignis)
To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (4 records)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cyclops insignis)
To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (4 records)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
