Copepoda name details
Diaptomus castor (Jurine, 1820)
356736 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:356736)
alternative representation
Species
Cyclops castor Desmarest, 1825 · unaccepted
Cyclops lacinulatus Müller O.F., 1776 · unaccepted
Cyclopsina castor Milne Edwards, 1840 · unaccepted (synonym)
Diaptomus sovinskyi Guerne & Richard, 1892 · unaccepted
Monoculus castor Jurine, 1820 · unaccepted (synonym)
Monoculus rubens Fabricius, 1775 · unaccepted (inadequately described, but...)
inadequately described, but indicated as possibe synonym by 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.). [details] 
(of Monoculus castor 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.). [details]
(of Monoculus castor 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.). [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Diaptomus castor (Jurine, 1820). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=356736 on 2025-12-02
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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.). [details]
original description (of Monoculus castor 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.). [details]
additional source Kiefer, F. (1974). Beitrag zur Kenntnis der castor-Gruppe der Gattung Diaptomus (sens. restr.) (Crustacea, Copepoda). [Contribution to the knowledge of the castor group of the genus Diaptomus (sens. restr.) (Crustacea, Copepoda).]. <em>Beiträge zur Naturkundlichen Forschung in Südwestdeutschland.</em> 33:209-218, figs. 1-40. (1-xi-1974). [details] Available for editors
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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 Pesta, O. (1928). Krebstiere oder Crustacea. I: Ruderfüsser oder Copepoda (1. Calanoida, 2. Cyclopoida) (3. Ordnung) [Crustaceans or Crustacea. I: Copepods (1. Calanoida, 2. Cyclopoida) (3rd order).]. <em>In: Dahl, F. (ed.). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der Angrenzenden Meeresteile nach Ihren Merkmalen und nach Ihrer Lebensweise. Fischer, Jena.</em> 9:1-136, figs. 1-115. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sars, G.O. (1902). Copepoda Calanoida, Parts VII & VIII, Centropagidae, Diaptomidae. <em>An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum.</em> 4:73-96, pls. 49-64. [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 Scher, O., D. Defaye, N.M. Korovchinsky & A. Thiéry. (2000). The crustacean fauna (Branchiopoda, Copepoda) of shallow freshwater bodies in Iceland. Vestnik Zoologii, Kiev 34(6):11-25. (7.xi.2000) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sterk, W. (1949). Diaptomussoorten in ons land. [Diaptomus species in our country.]. <em>De Levende Natuur.</em> 52(6):110-114. (vi-1949) [Dutch]. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Westwood, J.O. (1836). Cyclops (Muller). In: Partington, C.F. (ed.). The British Cyclopaedia of Natural History. Orr & Smith, London 2:227-228.
page(s): 228; note: type species for Diaptomus [details]
additional source Wolf, E. (1905). Die Fortpflanzungsverhältnisse unserer einheimischen Copepoden. [The reproductive conditions of our native copepods.]. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik.</em> 22(1-2):101-280, pls. 1-2, tabs. 1-4. (12-viii-1905). [details]
additional source Røen, U. (1994). Studies on freshwater Entomostraca in Greenland VI. The Entomostraca of the Kap Farvel Area, southernmost Greenland. <em>Meddelelser om Gronland Bioscience.</em> 41:1-21. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Traykov, I., B. Boyanovsky & M. Zivkov. (2011). Composition and abundance of zooplankton in Kardzhaly reservoir. <em>Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural Science.</em> 17(4):501-511. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Joyce, A.E. (1979). On the occurrence of Diaptomus castor (Jurine) (Crustacea Calanoida) in the North of Scotland. <em>Naturalist.</em> 104:114. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lilljeborg, W. (1855). Om de inom skåne förekommande Crustaceer af ordingarnae Cladocera, Ostracoda och Copepoda. [About the crustaceans of the orders Cladocera, Ostracoda and Copepoda occurring in Skåne.]. <em>Akademisk Afhandling, som med Amplissimi Consistorii Academici Tillstand, Lund.</em> 222 pp., 26 pls.
page(s): 134 [details]
additional source Dementev, M.S. (2015). Predvaritel'nyy obzor vodnykh bespozvonochnykh Tsentral'nogo Predkavkaz'ya (Severnyy Kavkaz) i prilegayushchikh gornykh territoriy. [Preliminary summary aquatic invertebrates in central Ciscaucasia (Nort Caucasus region) and adjacent mountain areas. ]. <em>Advances in Current Natural Sciences.</em> 6:102-118. [In Russian; English abstract]. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Stephensen, K. (1917). Zoogeographical investigation of certain fjords in southern Greenland, with special reference to Crustacea, Pycnogonida and Echinodermata including a list of Alcyonaria and Pisces. <em>Meddelelser om Grønland.</em> 53:229-378 ( for 1916)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37012145 [details]
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 Breemen, P.J. van. (1907). Vrijlevende zoetwater-Copepoden van Nederland. [Free-living freshwater copepods of the Netherlands.]. <em>Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging (A.</em> (2)10(3):303-368, pls. 6-7. [details]
additional source Dévai, I. (1977). Az Evezólabu Ránkok (Calanoida es Cyclopoida) Alrendjeinek kishatarozoja. [Identification book of the copepod suborders (Calanoida and Cyclopoida).]. <em>In: Felföldy, L. (ed.) Hydrobiology for water management praxis, Budapest, Vizügyi Dokumentációs és Továbbképzó Intézet.</em> vol. 5: 220 pp. (Hungarian). [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 Daday, E. (1882). Adatok Kolozsvár és környéke Crustacea- faunájának ismeretéhez. (Données sur la faune de Crustacés de Kolozsvár et ses environs). [Information on the Crustacea fauna of Cluj and its surroundings.]. <em>Orvos Természettudomanyi Értesitoe Kolozsvár, Budapest.</em> (2)7: 211-258. (Hungarian).
page(s): 230-231 [details]
additional source Daday, E. (1885). A Magyarországban eddig talált szabadon élö evezölábá rákok magánrajza. Monographia Eucopepodorum liberorum in Hungariae hucusque repertorum. [A monograph of the Eucopepods found so far in Hungary.]. <em>Mathematikai és Természettudoman Közlemények, Vonatkozolag a hazai Viszonyokra, Budapest.</em> 19:117-311, pls. 1-4.
page(s): 300-302 [details]
additional source Dussart, B.H. (1957). Le genre Diaptomus (Crustacé Copépode) en France. [The genus Diaptomus (Copepod Crustacean) in France.]. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 82(2-3):169-180, figs. 1-33. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Dussart, B.H. (1967). Les Copépodes des eaux continentales d'Europe occidentale. Tome I: Calanoïdes et Harpacticoïdes. [Copepods of the continental waters of Western Europe. Volume I: Calanoids and Harpacticoids.]. <em>N. Boubée et Cie, Paris.</em> 500 pp.
page(s): 93 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Dussart, B.H. & D. Defaye. (2001). Copepoda: Introduction to the Copepoda. (2nd edition)(revised and enlarged). <em>Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World. H.J.F. Dumont (ed.). SPB Academic Publishers, The Hague.</em> 16:1-344. [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): 1063, 13, 1870, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2071, 2074, 2082, 220, 2409, 2980, 319, 3450, 3514, 3526, 3587, 3588, 3589, 3619, 3630, 3763, 4136,...
[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. [details]
additional source Kiefer, F. & U. Einsle. (1963). Vom Litzelsee bei Markelfingen. Beobachtungen an Kleinkrebsen eines periodischen Frühjahrstümpels. [From the Litzelsee near Markelfingen. Observations on small crustaceans in a periodic spring pond.]. <em>Schriften des Vereins fur Geschichte des Bodensee und seiner Umgebung.</em> 81:1-10, figs. 1-7. [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Monoculus castor 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.). [details]
additional source Kiefer, F. (1974). Beitrag zur Kenntnis der castor-Gruppe der Gattung Diaptomus (sens. restr.) (Crustacea, Copepoda). [Contribution to the knowledge of the castor group of the genus Diaptomus (sens. restr.) (Crustacea, Copepoda).]. <em>Beiträge zur Naturkundlichen Forschung in Südwestdeutschland.</em> 33:209-218, figs. 1-40. (1-xi-1974). [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 Pesta, O. (1928). Krebstiere oder Crustacea. I: Ruderfüsser oder Copepoda (1. Calanoida, 2. Cyclopoida) (3. Ordnung) [Crustaceans or Crustacea. I: Copepods (1. Calanoida, 2. Cyclopoida) (3rd order).]. <em>In: Dahl, F. (ed.). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der Angrenzenden Meeresteile nach Ihren Merkmalen und nach Ihrer Lebensweise. Fischer, Jena.</em> 9:1-136, figs. 1-115. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sars, G.O. (1902). Copepoda Calanoida, Parts VII & VIII, Centropagidae, Diaptomidae. <em>An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum.</em> 4:73-96, pls. 49-64. [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 Scher, O., D. Defaye, N.M. Korovchinsky & A. Thiéry. (2000). The crustacean fauna (Branchiopoda, Copepoda) of shallow freshwater bodies in Iceland. Vestnik Zoologii, Kiev 34(6):11-25. (7.xi.2000) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sterk, W. (1949). Diaptomussoorten in ons land. [Diaptomus species in our country.]. <em>De Levende Natuur.</em> 52(6):110-114. (vi-1949) [Dutch]. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Westwood, J.O. (1836). Cyclops (Muller). In: Partington, C.F. (ed.). The British Cyclopaedia of Natural History. Orr & Smith, London 2:227-228.
page(s): 228; note: type species for Diaptomus [details]
additional source Wolf, E. (1905). Die Fortpflanzungsverhältnisse unserer einheimischen Copepoden. [The reproductive conditions of our native copepods.]. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik.</em> 22(1-2):101-280, pls. 1-2, tabs. 1-4. (12-viii-1905). [details]
additional source Røen, U. (1994). Studies on freshwater Entomostraca in Greenland VI. The Entomostraca of the Kap Farvel Area, southernmost Greenland. <em>Meddelelser om Gronland Bioscience.</em> 41:1-21. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Traykov, I., B. Boyanovsky & M. Zivkov. (2011). Composition and abundance of zooplankton in Kardzhaly reservoir. <em>Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural Science.</em> 17(4):501-511. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Joyce, A.E. (1979). On the occurrence of Diaptomus castor (Jurine) (Crustacea Calanoida) in the North of Scotland. <em>Naturalist.</em> 104:114. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lilljeborg, W. (1855). Om de inom skåne förekommande Crustaceer af ordingarnae Cladocera, Ostracoda och Copepoda. [About the crustaceans of the orders Cladocera, Ostracoda and Copepoda occurring in Skåne.]. <em>Akademisk Afhandling, som med Amplissimi Consistorii Academici Tillstand, Lund.</em> 222 pp., 26 pls.
page(s): 134 [details]
additional source Dementev, M.S. (2015). Predvaritel'nyy obzor vodnykh bespozvonochnykh Tsentral'nogo Predkavkaz'ya (Severnyy Kavkaz) i prilegayushchikh gornykh territoriy. [Preliminary summary aquatic invertebrates in central Ciscaucasia (Nort Caucasus region) and adjacent mountain areas. ]. <em>Advances in Current Natural Sciences.</em> 6:102-118. [In Russian; English abstract]. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Stephensen, K. (1917). Zoogeographical investigation of certain fjords in southern Greenland, with special reference to Crustacea, Pycnogonida and Echinodermata including a list of Alcyonaria and Pisces. <em>Meddelelser om Grønland.</em> 53:229-378 ( for 1916)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37012145 [details]
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 Breemen, P.J. van. (1907). Vrijlevende zoetwater-Copepoden van Nederland. [Free-living freshwater copepods of the Netherlands.]. <em>Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging (A.</em> (2)10(3):303-368, pls. 6-7. [details]
additional source Dévai, I. (1977). Az Evezólabu Ránkok (Calanoida es Cyclopoida) Alrendjeinek kishatarozoja. [Identification book of the copepod suborders (Calanoida and Cyclopoida).]. <em>In: Felföldy, L. (ed.) Hydrobiology for water management praxis, Budapest, Vizügyi Dokumentációs és Továbbképzó Intézet.</em> vol. 5: 220 pp. (Hungarian). [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 Daday, E. (1882). Adatok Kolozsvár és környéke Crustacea- faunájának ismeretéhez. (Données sur la faune de Crustacés de Kolozsvár et ses environs). [Information on the Crustacea fauna of Cluj and its surroundings.]. <em>Orvos Természettudomanyi Értesitoe Kolozsvár, Budapest.</em> (2)7: 211-258. (Hungarian).
page(s): 230-231 [details]
additional source Daday, E. (1885). A Magyarországban eddig talált szabadon élö evezölábá rákok magánrajza. Monographia Eucopepodorum liberorum in Hungariae hucusque repertorum. [A monograph of the Eucopepods found so far in Hungary.]. <em>Mathematikai és Természettudoman Közlemények, Vonatkozolag a hazai Viszonyokra, Budapest.</em> 19:117-311, pls. 1-4.
page(s): 300-302 [details]
additional source Dussart, B.H. (1957). Le genre Diaptomus (Crustacé Copépode) en France. [The genus Diaptomus (Copepod Crustacean) in France.]. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 82(2-3):169-180, figs. 1-33. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Dussart, B.H. (1967). Les Copépodes des eaux continentales d'Europe occidentale. Tome I: Calanoïdes et Harpacticoïdes. [Copepods of the continental waters of Western Europe. Volume I: Calanoids and Harpacticoids.]. <em>N. Boubée et Cie, Paris.</em> 500 pp.
page(s): 93 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Dussart, B.H. & D. Defaye. (2001). Copepoda: Introduction to the Copepoda. (2nd edition)(revised and enlarged). <em>Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World. H.J.F. Dumont (ed.). SPB Academic Publishers, The Hague.</em> 16:1-344. [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): 1063, 13, 1870, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2071, 2074, 2082, 220, 2409, 2980, 319, 3450, 3514, 3526, 3587, 3588, 3589, 3619, 3630, 3763, 4136,...
Catalog vial number(s): 1063, 13, 1870, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2071, 2074, 2082, 220, 2409, 2980, 319, 3450, 3514, 3526, 3587, 3588, 3589, 3619, 3630, 3763, 4136, 4811, 5459, 5519, 629
[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. [details]
additional source Kiefer, F. & U. Einsle. (1963). Vom Litzelsee bei Markelfingen. Beobachtungen an Kleinkrebsen eines periodischen Frühjahrstümpels. [From the Litzelsee near Markelfingen. Observations on small crustaceans in a periodic spring pond.]. <em>Schriften des Vereins fur Geschichte des Bodensee und seiner Umgebung.</em> 81:1-10, figs. 1-7. [details] Available for editors
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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Diaptomus castor)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Monoculus castor Jurine, 1820)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Monoculus castor Jurine, 1820)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record)
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