Copepoda name details
Acanthocyclops viridis (Jurine, 1820)
356564 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:356564)
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Species
- Subspecies Acanthocyclops viridis deserticola Lindberg, 1936 accepted as Megacyclops viridis deserticola Lindberg, 1936
- Subspecies Acanthocyclops viridis oligotrichus Monchenko, 1980 accepted as Megacyclops viridis oligotrichus (Monchenko, 1980)
- Subspecies Acanthocyclops viridis viridis (Jurine, 1820) accepted as Megacyclops viridis viridis (Jurine, 1820)
Jurine, L. (1820). Histoire des Monocles, qui se trouvent aux environs de Genève. [History of the Monocles, which are found around Geneva.]. <em>Genève & Paris.</em> 258 pp, pls. 1-22. (Partial copy.)., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10137 [details] 
(of Monoculus quadricornis viridis Jurine, 1820) Jurine, L. (1820). Histoire des Monocles, qui se trouvent aux environs de Genève. [History of the Monocles, which are found around Geneva.]. <em>Genève & Paris.</em> 258 pp, pls. 1-22. (Partial copy.)., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10137 [details]
(of Monoculus quadricornis viridis Jurine, 1820) Jurine, L. (1820). Histoire des Monocles, qui se trouvent aux environs de Genève. [History of the Monocles, which are found around Geneva.]. <em>Genève & Paris.</em> 258 pp, pls. 1-22. (Partial copy.)., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10137 [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Acanthocyclops viridis (Jurine, 1820). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=356564 on 2026-05-23
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Jurine, L. (1820). Histoire des Monocles, qui se trouvent aux environs de Genève. [History of the Monocles, which are found around Geneva.]. <em>Genève & Paris.</em> 258 pp, pls. 1-22. (Partial copy.)., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10137 [details]
original description (of Monoculus quadricornis viridis Jurine, 1820) Jurine, L. (1820). Histoire des Monocles, qui se trouvent aux environs de Genève. [History of the Monocles, which are found around Geneva.]. <em>Genève & Paris.</em> 258 pp, pls. 1-22. (Partial copy.)., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10137 [details]
additional source Abdullahi, B.A. (1985). The feeding behaviour and energetics of three benthic cyclopoid copepods: Acanthocyclops viridis (Jurine), Mesocyclops albidus (Jurine) and Acanthocyclops vernalis (Fischer) from Esthwaite Water, Cumbria. <em>Doctoral Dissertation, University of Lancaster.</em> 323 pp. [details]
additional source Belmonte, G., M.G. Mazzocchi, I.Y. Prusova & N.V. Shadrin. (1994). Acartia tonsa: a species new for the Black Sea fauna. In: Ferrari, F.D. & B.P. Bradley (eds.). Ecology and Morphology of Copepods. Developments in Hydrobiology 102, Hydrobiologia 292/293:9-15, fig.1-4., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00229917 [details] Available for editors
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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 Didka,(Dudka), I.O. & V.I. Monchenko. (1963). Grib Catenaria anguillulae Sorokin v porozhini tila tsiklopiv (Crustacea, Copepoda). [The Fungus Catenaria anguillulae Sorokin in the Body Cavity of Cyclops (Crustacea, Copepoda).]. <em>Dopovidi Akademiyi Nauk Ukrayins'koiy RSR, Kiev [Academy of Sciences, Ukrainian SSR].</em> 11:1537-1540. (Russian with english summary). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lawrence, S.A & A.N. Sastry. (1985). The role of temperature in seasonal variation in egg production by the copepod, Tortanus discaudatus (Thompson and Scott), in Narragansett Bay. <em>Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.</em> 91(1-2):151-167, figs. 1-5, tabs. 1-5. (5-ix-1985)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0981(85)90227-8 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Khan, M.F. (1965). The effect of constant and varying temperature on the development of Acanthocyclops viridis (Jurine). <em>Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section B: Biological, Geological, and Chemical Science,.</em> (B)64:117-130, figs. 1-7, tabs. 1-2. (19-iv-1965). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Krenke, G.Y. (1969). Regeneratsiya u Acanthocyclops viridis (Copepoda, Cyclopoida). [Regeneration in Acanthocyclops viridis (Copepoda, Cyclopoida).]. <em>Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR.</em> 187(6): 1439-1442, figs. 1-2. (20-viii-1969, Russian). [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 Laybourn-Parry, J., B.A. Abdullah & S.V. Tinson. (1988). Temperature-dependent energy partitioning in the benthic copepods Acanthocyclops viridis and Megacyclops albidus. <em>Canadian Journal of Zoology.</em> 66(12):2709-2714. (French summary.)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z88-397 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lebreton, B. (1986). Faune souterraine du département du Lot. Mise au point bibliographique. [Underground fauna of the Department of Lot. Bibliographical update.]. <em>In: Recherches sur les karsts du Quercy et du sud-ouest de la France, (Commission scientifique Midi-Pyrénées. Comité de Spéléologie régional (F.F.S.)).</em> :73-77. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Moldovan, O., S. Iepure & A. Fekete. (2001). Recent ecological research on groundwater in Transylvania (Romania). <em>In: Griebler, C., D. Danielopol, J. Gibert, H.P. Nachtnebel & J. Notenboom (eds). Conference Proceedings, Groundwater Ecology. A tool for management of water resources. European Commission, Vienna.</em> :335-341. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Monakov, A.V. (1958). K voprosy o raspredelenii Acanthocyclops viridis Jurine v Rybinskom vodokhranilishche. Über die Verteilung des Acanthocyclops viridis Jurine im Rybinsk-Stausee. [On the distribution of Acanthocyclops viridis Yurine in the Rybinsk Reservoir.]. <em>Byulleten' Instituta Biologii Vodokhranilish.</em> 1:36-39, fig. 1. [details]
additional source Monakov, A.V. (1959). Khishchoe pitanie Acanthocyclops viridis (Jur.) (Copepoda, Cyclopoida). [Predatory nutrition of Acanthocyclops viridis Jur.]. <em>Trudy Institut Biologii Vnutrennikh Vodokhran.</em> 2(5): 117-127, figs. 1-4, tabs. 1-7. (Russian). [details]
additional source Nagasawa, K., Y.G. Kim & H. Hirose. (1994). Anguillicola crassus and A. globiceps (Nematoda: Dracunculoidea) parasitic in the swimbladder of eels (Anguilla japonica and A. anguilla) in East Asia: a review. <em>Folia Parasitologica, Ceske Budejovice.</em> 41(2):127-137. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Rousset, V., F. Coste, J.F. Manier & A. Raibaut. (1981). L'appareil genital male et la spermatogenese d'un Copepoda cyclopoide libre: Acanthocyclops (Megacyclops) viridis (Jurine, 1820) (Copepoda, Cyclopoida). [The male genital apparatus and spermatogenesis of a free-living cyclopoid Copepoda: Acanthocyclops (Megacyclops) viridis (Jurine, 1820) (Copepoda, Cyclopoida).]. <em>Crustaceana (Leiden).</em> 40(1):65-78, fig.1, pl.1-4., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/156854081x00417 [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 Smyly, W.J.P. (1970). Observations on the rate of development, longevity and fecundity of Acanthocyclops viridis (Jurine) (Copepoda, Cyclopoida), in relation to type of prey. Crustaceana, Leiden 18(1):21-36, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-6. (3-iii-1970), available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/156854070x00031 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Smyly, W.J.P. (1974). The effect of temperature on the development time of the eggs of three freshwater cyclopoid copepods from the English Lake District. Crustaceana, Leiden 27(3):278-284, fig. 1, tabs. 1-3. (15-xii-1974), available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/156854074x00802 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Smyly, W.J.P. (1980). Effect of constant and alternating temperatures on adult longevity of the freshwater cyclopoid copepod, Acanthocyclops viridis (Jurine). Archiv für Hydrobiologie 89(3):353-362, tabs. 1-3. (vii-1980). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Teare, M.J. (1978). An energy budget for Tachidius discipes (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from an estuarine mud-flat. Ph.D. Thesis (Doctoral Dissertation), University of Exeter 151pp. (BLL ref. no. D 7989/79). [details]
additional source Wood, P.J. & J. Gunn. (2000). The aquatic invertebrate fauna within a cave system in Derbyshire, England. <em>Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie.</em> 27(2):901-905., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03680770.1998.11901369 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Monakov, A.V. (1959). The predatory feeding of Acanthocyclops viridis (Jur.) (Copepoda, Cyclopoida). <em>Translation from: Trudy Inst.Biol.Vodokhranil, Freshwater Biological Association Translations (New Series) No. 12.</em> 2(5) 117-127, 1959.]., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/1834/22366 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Makawi, S.E.M. & M.T. Monaghan. (2025). Zooplankton Community Composition in the White and Blue Niles Near Khartoum: Combining Molecular and Morphological Approaches. <em>Environmental DNA.</em> 7(6):1-15. e70218., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.70218 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Monoculus quadricornis viridis Jurine, 1820) Jurine, L. (1820). Histoire des Monocles, qui se trouvent aux environs de Genève. [History of the Monocles, which are found around Geneva.]. <em>Genève & Paris.</em> 258 pp, pls. 1-22. (Partial copy.)., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10137 [details]
additional source Abdullahi, B.A. (1985). The feeding behaviour and energetics of three benthic cyclopoid copepods: Acanthocyclops viridis (Jurine), Mesocyclops albidus (Jurine) and Acanthocyclops vernalis (Fischer) from Esthwaite Water, Cumbria. <em>Doctoral Dissertation, University of Lancaster.</em> 323 pp. [details]
additional source Belmonte, G., M.G. Mazzocchi, I.Y. Prusova & N.V. Shadrin. (1994). Acartia tonsa: a species new for the Black Sea fauna. In: Ferrari, F.D. & B.P. Bradley (eds.). Ecology and Morphology of Copepods. Developments in Hydrobiology 102, Hydrobiologia 292/293:9-15, fig.1-4., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00229917 [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 Didka,(Dudka), I.O. & V.I. Monchenko. (1963). Grib Catenaria anguillulae Sorokin v porozhini tila tsiklopiv (Crustacea, Copepoda). [The Fungus Catenaria anguillulae Sorokin in the Body Cavity of Cyclops (Crustacea, Copepoda).]. <em>Dopovidi Akademiyi Nauk Ukrayins'koiy RSR, Kiev [Academy of Sciences, Ukrainian SSR].</em> 11:1537-1540. (Russian with english summary). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lawrence, S.A & A.N. Sastry. (1985). The role of temperature in seasonal variation in egg production by the copepod, Tortanus discaudatus (Thompson and Scott), in Narragansett Bay. <em>Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.</em> 91(1-2):151-167, figs. 1-5, tabs. 1-5. (5-ix-1985)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0981(85)90227-8 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Khan, M.F. (1965). The effect of constant and varying temperature on the development of Acanthocyclops viridis (Jurine). <em>Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section B: Biological, Geological, and Chemical Science,.</em> (B)64:117-130, figs. 1-7, tabs. 1-2. (19-iv-1965). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Krenke, G.Y. (1969). Regeneratsiya u Acanthocyclops viridis (Copepoda, Cyclopoida). [Regeneration in Acanthocyclops viridis (Copepoda, Cyclopoida).]. <em>Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR.</em> 187(6): 1439-1442, figs. 1-2. (20-viii-1969, Russian). [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 Laybourn-Parry, J., B.A. Abdullah & S.V. Tinson. (1988). Temperature-dependent energy partitioning in the benthic copepods Acanthocyclops viridis and Megacyclops albidus. <em>Canadian Journal of Zoology.</em> 66(12):2709-2714. (French summary.)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z88-397 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lebreton, B. (1986). Faune souterraine du département du Lot. Mise au point bibliographique. [Underground fauna of the Department of Lot. Bibliographical update.]. <em>In: Recherches sur les karsts du Quercy et du sud-ouest de la France, (Commission scientifique Midi-Pyrénées. Comité de Spéléologie régional (F.F.S.)).</em> :73-77. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Moldovan, O., S. Iepure & A. Fekete. (2001). Recent ecological research on groundwater in Transylvania (Romania). <em>In: Griebler, C., D. Danielopol, J. Gibert, H.P. Nachtnebel & J. Notenboom (eds). Conference Proceedings, Groundwater Ecology. A tool for management of water resources. European Commission, Vienna.</em> :335-341. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Monakov, A.V. (1958). K voprosy o raspredelenii Acanthocyclops viridis Jurine v Rybinskom vodokhranilishche. Über die Verteilung des Acanthocyclops viridis Jurine im Rybinsk-Stausee. [On the distribution of Acanthocyclops viridis Yurine in the Rybinsk Reservoir.]. <em>Byulleten' Instituta Biologii Vodokhranilish.</em> 1:36-39, fig. 1. [details]
additional source Monakov, A.V. (1959). Khishchoe pitanie Acanthocyclops viridis (Jur.) (Copepoda, Cyclopoida). [Predatory nutrition of Acanthocyclops viridis Jur.]. <em>Trudy Institut Biologii Vnutrennikh Vodokhran.</em> 2(5): 117-127, figs. 1-4, tabs. 1-7. (Russian). [details]
additional source Nagasawa, K., Y.G. Kim & H. Hirose. (1994). Anguillicola crassus and A. globiceps (Nematoda: Dracunculoidea) parasitic in the swimbladder of eels (Anguilla japonica and A. anguilla) in East Asia: a review. <em>Folia Parasitologica, Ceske Budejovice.</em> 41(2):127-137. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Rousset, V., F. Coste, J.F. Manier & A. Raibaut. (1981). L'appareil genital male et la spermatogenese d'un Copepoda cyclopoide libre: Acanthocyclops (Megacyclops) viridis (Jurine, 1820) (Copepoda, Cyclopoida). [The male genital apparatus and spermatogenesis of a free-living cyclopoid Copepoda: Acanthocyclops (Megacyclops) viridis (Jurine, 1820) (Copepoda, Cyclopoida).]. <em>Crustaceana (Leiden).</em> 40(1):65-78, fig.1, pl.1-4., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/156854081x00417 [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 Smyly, W.J.P. (1970). Observations on the rate of development, longevity and fecundity of Acanthocyclops viridis (Jurine) (Copepoda, Cyclopoida), in relation to type of prey. Crustaceana, Leiden 18(1):21-36, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-6. (3-iii-1970), available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/156854070x00031 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Smyly, W.J.P. (1974). The effect of temperature on the development time of the eggs of three freshwater cyclopoid copepods from the English Lake District. Crustaceana, Leiden 27(3):278-284, fig. 1, tabs. 1-3. (15-xii-1974), available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/156854074x00802 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Smyly, W.J.P. (1980). Effect of constant and alternating temperatures on adult longevity of the freshwater cyclopoid copepod, Acanthocyclops viridis (Jurine). Archiv für Hydrobiologie 89(3):353-362, tabs. 1-3. (vii-1980). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Teare, M.J. (1978). An energy budget for Tachidius discipes (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from an estuarine mud-flat. Ph.D. Thesis (Doctoral Dissertation), University of Exeter 151pp. (BLL ref. no. D 7989/79). [details]
additional source Wood, P.J. & J. Gunn. (2000). The aquatic invertebrate fauna within a cave system in Derbyshire, England. <em>Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie.</em> 27(2):901-905., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03680770.1998.11901369 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Monakov, A.V. (1959). The predatory feeding of Acanthocyclops viridis (Jur.) (Copepoda, Cyclopoida). <em>Translation from: Trudy Inst.Biol.Vodokhranil, Freshwater Biological Association Translations (New Series) No. 12.</em> 2(5) 117-127, 1959.]., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/1834/22366 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Makawi, S.E.M. & M.T. Monaghan. (2025). Zooplankton Community Composition in the White and Blue Niles Near Khartoum: Combining Molecular and Morphological Approaches. <em>Environmental DNA.</em> 7(6):1-15. e70218., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.70218 [details] Available for editors
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