Copepoda taxon details
Pseudodiaptomus mertoni Früchtl, 1923
355172 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:355172)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Früchtl, F. (1923). Cladocera und Copepoda der Aru-Inseln. (Vorläufige Mitteilung: Artenliste und kurze Diagnosen der neuen Formen). [Cladocera and Copepoda of the Aru Islands. (Preliminary communication: species list and brief diagnoses of the new forms).]. <em>Senckenbergische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Abhandlungen.</em> 375(4):449-457, pl. 26. German. [details] 
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Pseudodiaptomus mertoni Früchtl, 1923. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=355172 on 2026-02-18
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Früchtl, F. (1923). Cladocera und Copepoda der Aru-Inseln. (Vorläufige Mitteilung: Artenliste und kurze Diagnosen der neuen Formen). [Cladocera and Copepoda of the Aru Islands. (Preliminary communication: species list and brief diagnoses of the new forms).]. <em>Senckenbergische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Abhandlungen.</em> 375(4):449-457, pl. 26. German. [details]
additional source Früchtl, F. (1924). Die Cladoceren- und Copepoden-Fauna des Aru-Archipels. Mit Beiträgen zur Kenntnis der strukturellen Anomalien indo-pazifischer Plankton-Copepoden. <em>Arbeiten aus dem Zoologischen Institut der Universität Innsbruck.</em> 2(2):23-136. [details] Available for editors
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additional source Greenwood, J.G. (1981). Occurrences of congeneric pairs of Acartia and Pseudodiaptomus species (Copepoda, Calanoida) in Moreton Bay, Queensland. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 13(5):591-596, fig.1., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s0302-3524(81)80060-6 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Saraswathy, M. (1967). Pelagic copepods from the inshore waters off Trivandrum coast. Proceedings of the Symposium on Crustacea, Ernakulam, 12-15 January 1965. Symposium Series, Marine Biological Association of India (2)1:74-106, figs. 1-11. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sewell, R.B.S. (1932). The Copepoda of Indian Seas. Calanoida. <em>Memoirs of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.</em> 10:223-407, figs. 82-131, pls. 1-6. (xii-1929, v-1932). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Walter, T.C. (1984). New species of Pseudodiaptomus from the Indo-Pacific, with a clarification of P. aurivillii and P. mertoni (Crustacea: Copepoda: Calanoida). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 97(2):369-391, figs. 1-8. (6-vii-1984). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Wellershaus, S. (1969). On the taxonomy of planctonic Copepoda in the Cochin Backwater (a South Indian estuary). Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Meeresforschung in Bremerhaven 11:245-286. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bradford-Grieve, J.M. (1999). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic Calanoid Copepoda: Bathypontiidae, Arietellidae, Augaptilidae, Heterorhabdidae, Lucicutiidae, Metrodinidae, Phyllopodidae, Centropagidae, Pseudodiaptomidae, Temoridae, Candaciidae, Pontellidae, Sulcanidae, Acartiid National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Biodiversity Memoir, Wellington 111:1-268. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hani, P.M. & K.J. Jayalakshmi. (2022). An updated checklist of planktonic Copepods from the major estuaries of Kerala (Vembanad and Ashtamudi), south-west coast of India. <em>Pantnagar Journal of Research.</em> 20(2):356-366. [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription Othman, B.H.R., J.G. Greenwood & P.C. Rothlisberg. (1990). The copepod fauna of the Gulf of Carpentaria, and its Indo-West Pacific affinities. In: Proceedings of the Snellius-II Symposium. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research 25(4):561-572, figs. 1-2, tab. 1., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0077-7579(90)90078-u [details] Available for editors [request]
ecology source Brun, P., M.R. Payne & T. Kiørboe. (2017). A trait database for marine copepods. <em>Earth System Science Data.</em> 9(1):99-113., available online at https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-99-2017 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Früchtl, F. (1924). Die Cladoceren- und Copepoden-Fauna des Aru-Archipels. Mit Beiträgen zur Kenntnis der strukturellen Anomalien indo-pazifischer Plankton-Copepoden. <em>Arbeiten aus dem Zoologischen Institut der Universität Innsbruck.</em> 2(2):23-136. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Greenwood, J.G. (1981). Occurrences of congeneric pairs of Acartia and Pseudodiaptomus species (Copepoda, Calanoida) in Moreton Bay, Queensland. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 13(5):591-596, fig.1., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s0302-3524(81)80060-6 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Saraswathy, M. (1967). Pelagic copepods from the inshore waters off Trivandrum coast. Proceedings of the Symposium on Crustacea, Ernakulam, 12-15 January 1965. Symposium Series, Marine Biological Association of India (2)1:74-106, figs. 1-11. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sewell, R.B.S. (1932). The Copepoda of Indian Seas. Calanoida. <em>Memoirs of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.</em> 10:223-407, figs. 82-131, pls. 1-6. (xii-1929, v-1932). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Walter, T.C. (1984). New species of Pseudodiaptomus from the Indo-Pacific, with a clarification of P. aurivillii and P. mertoni (Crustacea: Copepoda: Calanoida). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 97(2):369-391, figs. 1-8. (6-vii-1984). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Wellershaus, S. (1969). On the taxonomy of planctonic Copepoda in the Cochin Backwater (a South Indian estuary). Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Meeresforschung in Bremerhaven 11:245-286. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bradford-Grieve, J.M. (1999). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic Calanoid Copepoda: Bathypontiidae, Arietellidae, Augaptilidae, Heterorhabdidae, Lucicutiidae, Metrodinidae, Phyllopodidae, Centropagidae, Pseudodiaptomidae, Temoridae, Candaciidae, Pontellidae, Sulcanidae, Acartiid National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Biodiversity Memoir, Wellington 111:1-268. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Hani, P.M. & K.J. Jayalakshmi. (2022). An updated checklist of planktonic Copepods from the major estuaries of Kerala (Vembanad and Ashtamudi), south-west coast of India. <em>Pantnagar Journal of Research.</em> 20(2):356-366. [details] Available for editors
[request]redescription Othman, B.H.R., J.G. Greenwood & P.C. Rothlisberg. (1990). The copepod fauna of the Gulf of Carpentaria, and its Indo-West Pacific affinities. In: Proceedings of the Snellius-II Symposium. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research 25(4):561-572, figs. 1-2, tab. 1., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0077-7579(90)90078-u [details] Available for editors
[request]ecology source Brun, P., M.R. Payne & T. Kiørboe. (2017). A trait database for marine copepods. <em>Earth System Science Data.</em> 9(1):99-113., available online at https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-99-2017 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Marine Planktonic Copepods (Banyuls/OOB/UPMC/CNRS) Note: Including taxonomic identification plates, remarks, geographic distribution, ecological information & reference list
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pseudodiaptomus mertoni)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (5 records)
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pseudodiaptomus mertoni)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (5 records)
From editor or global species database
