Copepoda name details
Cyclops furcifer Claus, 1857
356810 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:356810)
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Species
Cyclops ankyrae Mann, 1940 · unaccepted
Cyclops caspicus caspicus Lindberg, 1942 · unaccepted
Cyclops hamatus Sovinsky, 1887 · unaccepted
Cyclops lacunae Lowndes, 1926 · unaccepted
Cyclops miniatus Lilljeborg, 1901 · unaccepted
- Subspecies Cyclops furcifer caspicus Lindberg, 1942
- Subspecies Cyclops furcifer furcifer Claus, 1857
- Subspecies Cyclops furcifer borealis Lindberg, 1956 accepted as Cyclops borealis Lindberg, 1956
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. [details] 
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Cyclops furcifer Claus, 1857. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=356810 on 2026-06-01
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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. [details]
additional source Beermann, S. (1966). A quantative study of chromatin diminution in embryonic mitoses of Cyclops furcifer. <em>Genetics.</em> 54(2):567-576, figs. 1-5, tabs. 1-4. (viii-1966)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/54.2.567 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Beermann, S. (1977). The diminution of heterochromatic chromosomal segments in Cyclops (Crustacea, Copepoda). Chromosoma, Berlin 60(4):297-344, figs. 1-34, tabs. 1-6. (20-iv-1977), available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00292858 [details] Available for editors [request]
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 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 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 Dussart, B.H. (1969). Les Copépodes des eaux continentales d'Europe occidentale. Tome II: Cyclopoïdes et Biologie. [Copepods of the continental waters of Western Europe. Volume II: Cyclopoids and Biology.]. <em>N. Boubée et Cie, Paris, France.</em> 292 pp, figs. 1-121. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Einsle, U. (1963). Untersuchungen über die Variabilität von Cyclops furcifer Claus, 1857. [ Investigations on the variability of Cyclops furcifer Claus, 1857.]. <em>Crustaceana (Leiden).</em> 5(3):193-204, figs. 1-5. (22-v-1963)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/156854063x00129 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Einsle, U. (1971). Einige Arten der Gattung Cyclops s. str. aus Jugoslawien. [Some species of the genus Cyclops s. str. from Yugoslavia.]. <em>Fragmenta Balcanica.</em> 8(9)(187):61-74, figs. 1-3, tabs. 1-2. [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): 847 [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): 51 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kiefer, F. (1955). Freilebenden Ruderfusskrebse (Crustacea Copepoda) aus Türkischen Binnengewässern. II. Cyclopoida und Harpacticoida. [Free-living copepods (Crustacea Copepoda) from Turkish inland waters. II. Cyclopoida and Harpacticoida.]. <em>Istanbul Universitesi Fen Fakultesi Hidrobiologi.</em> (B)2(4):108-132, figs. 1-63. (i-1955). [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 Kozminski, Z. (1933). Badania morfometryczne i ekologiczne nad oczlikami (Cyclopidae) z grupy strenuus. Études morphométriques et écologiques sur les Cyclopides du groupe strenuus. [Morphometric and ecological studies on Cyclopoidae from the strenuus group.]. <em>Archiwum Hydrobiologii i Rybactwa.</em> 7:59-140, pls. 1-5, figs. 1-10, tabs. 1-14. [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): 179-184 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Margalef, R. (1950). Algunos crustáceos interesantes de las aguas dulces y salobres de España. [Some interesting crustaceans from the fresh and brackish waters of Spain.]. <em>Publicaciones del Instituto de Biologia Aplicada, Barcelona.</em> 7: 131-151, figs. 1-5. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pelosse, J. (1934). Étude sur la Faune des Cladocères et des Copépodes de la Région Moyenne des Alpes Françaises. [Study on the Fauna of Cladocera and Copepods of the Middle Region of the French Alps.]. <em>BOSC Freres, M.& L. Riou, Lyon, France.</em> 269 pp. , figs. 1-29, tabs. [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 Samraoui, B. (2002). Branchiopoda (Ctenopoda and Anomopoda) and Copepoda from eastern Numidia, Algeria. Hydrobiologia 470: 173-179., available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1015640525662 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Wierzbicka, M. (1959). Cyclops furcifer Claus dans la classification du sous-genre Cyclops O.F.M. [Cyclops furcifer Claus in the classification of the subgenus Cyclops O.F.M.]. <em>Polskie Archiwum Hydrobiologii.</em> 5(2):161-169, figs. 1-2, tab. 1. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Anufriieva, E.V., M. Holynska & N. Shadrin. (2014). Current invasions of asian cyclopid species (Copepoda: Cyclopidae) in Crimea, with taxonomical and zoogeographical remarks on the hypersaline and freshwater fauna. <em>Annales Zoologici.</em> 64(1):109-130., available online at https://doi.org/10.3161/000345414X680636 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Karpowicz, M., S. Smolska, M. Swislocka & J. Moroz. (2021). First Insight into Groundwater Copepods of the Polish Lowland. <em>Water.</em> 13:1-17., available online at https://doi.org/10.3390/w13152086 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Karpowicz, M. & S. Smolska. (2024). Ephemeral Puddles-Potential Sites for Feeding and Reproduction of Hyporheic Copepoda. <em>Water.</em> 16(7) :1-13. Apr 2024., available online at https://doi.org/10.3390/w16071068 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sheveleva, N.G., O.G. Pen'kova, N.V. Makarkina & I.I. Tupitsyn. (2025). Zooplankton of Lake Sukhoe: A Unique Natural Site in Zapovednoe Pribaikalye. <em>Inland Water Biology.</em> 18(4SI):768-780. Aug 2025., available online at https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082925600681 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Smolska, S., M. Karpowicz, M. Swislocka-Cutter, E. Jekatierynczuk-Rudczyk & M. Holynska. (2025). Copepoda of lowland springs: diversity patterns and integrative taxonomy of Cyclops. <em>Journal Of Limnology.</em> 84: 1-15. NOV 2025., available online at https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2025.2242 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Stella, E., F.G. Margaritora & V. Cottarelli. (1972). La fauna ad entomostraci di acque astatiche della Sardegna nord orientale, Ricerche biologiche ed ecologiche. [The entomostracian fauna of the astatic waters of north-eastern Sardinia, Biological and ecological research.]. <em>Accademia Nazionale Dei XL.</em> Ser. 4. 22:1-50. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Beermann, S. (1966). A quantative study of chromatin diminution in embryonic mitoses of Cyclops furcifer. <em>Genetics.</em> 54(2):567-576, figs. 1-5, tabs. 1-4. (viii-1966)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/54.2.567 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Beermann, S. (1977). The diminution of heterochromatic chromosomal segments in Cyclops (Crustacea, Copepoda). Chromosoma, Berlin 60(4):297-344, figs. 1-34, tabs. 1-6. (20-iv-1977), available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00292858 [details] Available for editors
[request]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 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 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 Dussart, B.H. (1969). Les Copépodes des eaux continentales d'Europe occidentale. Tome II: Cyclopoïdes et Biologie. [Copepods of the continental waters of Western Europe. Volume II: Cyclopoids and Biology.]. <em>N. Boubée et Cie, Paris, France.</em> 292 pp, figs. 1-121. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Einsle, U. (1963). Untersuchungen über die Variabilität von Cyclops furcifer Claus, 1857. [ Investigations on the variability of Cyclops furcifer Claus, 1857.]. <em>Crustaceana (Leiden).</em> 5(3):193-204, figs. 1-5. (22-v-1963)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/156854063x00129 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Einsle, U. (1971). Einige Arten der Gattung Cyclops s. str. aus Jugoslawien. [Some species of the genus Cyclops s. str. from Yugoslavia.]. <em>Fragmenta Balcanica.</em> 8(9)(187):61-74, figs. 1-3, tabs. 1-2. [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): 847 [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): 51 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kiefer, F. (1955). Freilebenden Ruderfusskrebse (Crustacea Copepoda) aus Türkischen Binnengewässern. II. Cyclopoida und Harpacticoida. [Free-living copepods (Crustacea Copepoda) from Turkish inland waters. II. Cyclopoida and Harpacticoida.]. <em>Istanbul Universitesi Fen Fakultesi Hidrobiologi.</em> (B)2(4):108-132, figs. 1-63. (i-1955). [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 Kozminski, Z. (1933). Badania morfometryczne i ekologiczne nad oczlikami (Cyclopidae) z grupy strenuus. Études morphométriques et écologiques sur les Cyclopides du groupe strenuus. [Morphometric and ecological studies on Cyclopoidae from the strenuus group.]. <em>Archiwum Hydrobiologii i Rybactwa.</em> 7:59-140, pls. 1-5, figs. 1-10, tabs. 1-14. [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): 179-184 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Margalef, R. (1950). Algunos crustáceos interesantes de las aguas dulces y salobres de España. [Some interesting crustaceans from the fresh and brackish waters of Spain.]. <em>Publicaciones del Instituto de Biologia Aplicada, Barcelona.</em> 7: 131-151, figs. 1-5. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pelosse, J. (1934). Étude sur la Faune des Cladocères et des Copépodes de la Région Moyenne des Alpes Françaises. [Study on the Fauna of Cladocera and Copepods of the Middle Region of the French Alps.]. <em>BOSC Freres, M.& L. Riou, Lyon, France.</em> 269 pp. , figs. 1-29, tabs. [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 Samraoui, B. (2002). Branchiopoda (Ctenopoda and Anomopoda) and Copepoda from eastern Numidia, Algeria. Hydrobiologia 470: 173-179., available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1015640525662 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Wierzbicka, M. (1959). Cyclops furcifer Claus dans la classification du sous-genre Cyclops O.F.M. [Cyclops furcifer Claus in the classification of the subgenus Cyclops O.F.M.]. <em>Polskie Archiwum Hydrobiologii.</em> 5(2):161-169, figs. 1-2, tab. 1. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Anufriieva, E.V., M. Holynska & N. Shadrin. (2014). Current invasions of asian cyclopid species (Copepoda: Cyclopidae) in Crimea, with taxonomical and zoogeographical remarks on the hypersaline and freshwater fauna. <em>Annales Zoologici.</em> 64(1):109-130., available online at https://doi.org/10.3161/000345414X680636 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Karpowicz, M., S. Smolska, M. Swislocka & J. Moroz. (2021). First Insight into Groundwater Copepods of the Polish Lowland. <em>Water.</em> 13:1-17., available online at https://doi.org/10.3390/w13152086 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Karpowicz, M. & S. Smolska. (2024). Ephemeral Puddles-Potential Sites for Feeding and Reproduction of Hyporheic Copepoda. <em>Water.</em> 16(7) :1-13. Apr 2024., available online at https://doi.org/10.3390/w16071068 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sheveleva, N.G., O.G. Pen'kova, N.V. Makarkina & I.I. Tupitsyn. (2025). Zooplankton of Lake Sukhoe: A Unique Natural Site in Zapovednoe Pribaikalye. <em>Inland Water Biology.</em> 18(4SI):768-780. Aug 2025., available online at https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082925600681 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Smolska, S., M. Karpowicz, M. Swislocka-Cutter, E. Jekatierynczuk-Rudczyk & M. Holynska. (2025). Copepoda of lowland springs: diversity patterns and integrative taxonomy of Cyclops. <em>Journal Of Limnology.</em> 84: 1-15. NOV 2025., available online at https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2025.2242 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Stella, E., F.G. Margaritora & V. Cottarelli. (1972). La fauna ad entomostraci di acque astatiche della Sardegna nord orientale, Ricerche biologiche ed ecologiche. [The entomostracian fauna of the astatic waters of north-eastern Sardinia, Biological and ecological research.]. <em>Accademia Nazionale Dei XL.</em> Ser. 4. 22:1-50. [details] Available for editors
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