Copepoda taxon details
Lipomelum heteromelum Fiers, 1986
353178 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:353178)
accepted
Species
Apolaophonte hispida Wells & Rao, 1987 · unaccepted (junior synonym after Bodin (1997)...)
junior synonym after Bodin (1997) and Wells (2007)
Lipomelum hispidum (Wells & Rao, 1987) · unaccepted (synonym after Wells (2007))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fiers, F. (1986). Harpacticoid copepods from the West Indian Islands: Laophontidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoda). Amsterdam Expedition to the West Indian Islands, Report 48. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 56(1):132-164, figs. 1-18, tabs. 1-8. (French summary.) (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/26660644-05601009 [details] Available for editors 
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Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Lipomelum heteromelum Fiers, 1986. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=353178 on 2026-02-28
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Fiers, F. (1986). Harpacticoid copepods from the West Indian Islands: Laophontidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoda). Amsterdam Expedition to the West Indian Islands, Report 48. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 56(1):132-164, figs. 1-18, tabs. 1-8. (French summary.) (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/26660644-05601009 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Apolaophonte hispida Wells & Rao, 1987) Wells, J.B.J. & G. Chandrasekhara Rao. (1987). Littoral Harpacticoida (Crustacea: Copepoda) from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 16(4):1-385. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Nazari, F, Q. Mirshamsi, A. Sari & M. Aliabadian. (2020). New geographic records of Harpacticoida (Crustacea: Copepoda) from the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, Iran. <em>Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics (IJAB).</em> 16(2):107-130., available online at https://doi.org/10.22067/ijab. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]original description (of Apolaophonte hispida Wells & Rao, 1987) Wells, J.B.J. & G. Chandrasekhara Rao. (1987). Littoral Harpacticoida (Crustacea: Copepoda) from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 16(4):1-385. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Nazari, F, Q. Mirshamsi, A. Sari & M. Aliabadian. (2020). New geographic records of Harpacticoida (Crustacea: Copepoda) from the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, Iran. <em>Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics (IJAB).</em> 16(2):107-130., available online at https://doi.org/10.22067/ijab. [details] Available for editors
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