Copepoda taxon details
Macrocyclops distinctus (Richard, 1887)
356913 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:356913)
accepted
Species
Cyclops distinctus Richard, 1887 · unaccepted
(of Cyclops distinctus Richard, 1887) Richard, J. (1887). De la Récolte & de la Conservation des Entomostracés d'Eau Douce: Cladocères & Copépodes. [On the Harvesting & Conservation of Freshwater Entomostraca: Cladocera & Copepoda.]. <em>Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes.</em> 17:1-7. [details] 
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Macrocyclops distinctus (Richard, 1887). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=356913 on 2026-07-14
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(of Cyclops distinctus Richard, 1887) Richard, J. (1887). De la Récolte & de la Conservation des Entomostracés d'Eau Douce: Cladocères & Copépodes. [On the Harvesting & Conservation of Freshwater Entomostraca: Cladocera & Copepoda.]. <em>Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes.</em> 17:1-7. [details]
additional source Alekseev, V.R. (1987). Opredelitel' presnovodnykh tsiklopov Evropesko chasti SSSR. T. 1. Kopepoditnye stadii starshikh vozrastov podsemestva Eucyclopinae. Key to freshwater Cyclopinae of the European USSR. Older copepodid instars of the subfamily Eucyclopinae.]. <em>Gosnii Ozern. i rechn. rybn. kh-va. L. 95 s. (Rukopis' dep. v VINITI 13.01.87, No. 286-B87).</em> 96 pp. [details] Available for editors
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additional source Belmonte, G., G. Alfonso & S. Moscatello . (2006). Copepod fauna (Calanoida and Cyclopoida) in small ponds of the Pollino National Park (south Italy), with notes on seasonality and biometry of species. Journal of Limnology 65(2): 107-113., available online at https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2006.107 [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 Dieng, H., M. Boots, N. Tuno, Y. Tsuda & M. Takagi. (2002). A laboratory and field evaluation of Macrocyclops distinctus, Megacyclops viridis and Mesocyclops pehpeiensis as control agents of the dengue vector Aedes albopictus in a peridomestic area in Nagasaki, Japan. <em>Medical and Veterinary Entomology.</em> 16(3): 285-291., available online at https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2915.2002.00377.x [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 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): 242 [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): 28 [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). [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 Lindberg, K. (1941). Cyclopides (Crustacés Copépodes) de l'Inde. VI-VII. Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta 43(4):395-409, figs. 1-7. (19-xii-1941)
page(s): 70-73 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Monchenko, V.I. (1955). Pro znakhodzheniya Macrocyclops distinctus na Ukraini. [On record of Macrocyclops distinctus (Copepoda) in Ukraine.]. <em>Studentski Naukovi Pratsi, Kiyivs'kiyi Derzhavniyi Universitet 'T. G. Shevchenko' (Student Scientific Works, Kiev State University), Collection XVIII.</em> 14(1954):109-111. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Shen, C.J. & A.Y. Tai. (1964). Copepoda of Hsi-Song-Pang-Na Tai autonomous county and vicinity, Yunnan Province. Acta Zoologica Sinica 16(3):440-464, figs. 1-63. (ix-1964, Chinese with English summary). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Wang, J.Q., J.P. Wu, Y.B. Yu, T.Y. Wang & G. Cheng. (2003). [The specific list, quantitative distribution and change of zooplankton in the season of spring and autumn in Poyang Lake.]. <em>Hupo Kexue.</em> 15(4): 345-352. [In Chinese; English abstract]. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Chang, C.Y. & G.S. Min. (2005). Key to the Korean freshwater cyclopoid copepods and their DNA taxonomy. Jung-haeng-Sa Publishing Co., Seoul. 153 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Chang, C.Y. (2009). Illustrated encyclopedia of fauna & flora of Korea. Vol. 42. Inland-water Copepoda. <em>Jeonghaeng-sa, Ministry of Education, Seoul, South Korea.</em> 42:1-687. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Chang, C.Y. (2012). Arthropoda, Maxillopoda, Copepoda, Cyclopoida, Cyclopidae, Halicyclopinae, Eucyclopinae : continental cyclopoids 1. <em>Invertebrate Fauna of Korea, National Institute of Biological Resources, Ministry of Environment(Korea).</em> 21(19): 92 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Früh, L., H. Kampen, G.A. Schaub & D. Werner. (2019). Predation on the invasive mosquito Aedes japonicus (Diptera: Culicidae) by native copepod species in Germany. <em>Journal of Vector Ecology.</em> 44(2):241-247. Dec 2019., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/jvec.12355 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source MacLennan, M.M. (2015). Cumulative Impacts of Multiple Stressors on Aquatic Communities: Novel Fish Predators in Warming Mountain Lakes. <em>Ph.D. Thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.</em> 199 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Alekseev, V.R. (1987). Opredelitel' presnovodnykh tsiklopov Evropesko chasti SSSR. T. 1. Kopepoditnye stadii starshikh vozrastov podsemestva Eucyclopinae. Key to freshwater Cyclopinae of the European USSR. Older copepodid instars of the subfamily Eucyclopinae.]. <em>Gosnii Ozern. i rechn. rybn. kh-va. L. 95 s. (Rukopis' dep. v VINITI 13.01.87, No. 286-B87).</em> 96 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Belmonte, G., G. Alfonso & S. Moscatello . (2006). Copepod fauna (Calanoida and Cyclopoida) in small ponds of the Pollino National Park (south Italy), with notes on seasonality and biometry of species. Journal of Limnology 65(2): 107-113., available online at https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2006.107 [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 Dieng, H., M. Boots, N. Tuno, Y. Tsuda & M. Takagi. (2002). A laboratory and field evaluation of Macrocyclops distinctus, Megacyclops viridis and Mesocyclops pehpeiensis as control agents of the dengue vector Aedes albopictus in a peridomestic area in Nagasaki, Japan. <em>Medical and Veterinary Entomology.</em> 16(3): 285-291., available online at https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2915.2002.00377.x [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 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): 242 [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): 28 [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). [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 Lindberg, K. (1941). Cyclopides (Crustacés Copépodes) de l'Inde. VI-VII. Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta 43(4):395-409, figs. 1-7. (19-xii-1941)
page(s): 70-73 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Monchenko, V.I. (1955). Pro znakhodzheniya Macrocyclops distinctus na Ukraini. [On record of Macrocyclops distinctus (Copepoda) in Ukraine.]. <em>Studentski Naukovi Pratsi, Kiyivs'kiyi Derzhavniyi Universitet 'T. G. Shevchenko' (Student Scientific Works, Kiev State University), Collection XVIII.</em> 14(1954):109-111. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Shen, C.J. & A.Y. Tai. (1964). Copepoda of Hsi-Song-Pang-Na Tai autonomous county and vicinity, Yunnan Province. Acta Zoologica Sinica 16(3):440-464, figs. 1-63. (ix-1964, Chinese with English summary). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Wang, J.Q., J.P. Wu, Y.B. Yu, T.Y. Wang & G. Cheng. (2003). [The specific list, quantitative distribution and change of zooplankton in the season of spring and autumn in Poyang Lake.]. <em>Hupo Kexue.</em> 15(4): 345-352. [In Chinese; English abstract]. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Chang, C.Y. & G.S. Min. (2005). Key to the Korean freshwater cyclopoid copepods and their DNA taxonomy. Jung-haeng-Sa Publishing Co., Seoul. 153 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Chang, C.Y. (2009). Illustrated encyclopedia of fauna & flora of Korea. Vol. 42. Inland-water Copepoda. <em>Jeonghaeng-sa, Ministry of Education, Seoul, South Korea.</em> 42:1-687. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Chang, C.Y. (2012). Arthropoda, Maxillopoda, Copepoda, Cyclopoida, Cyclopidae, Halicyclopinae, Eucyclopinae : continental cyclopoids 1. <em>Invertebrate Fauna of Korea, National Institute of Biological Resources, Ministry of Environment(Korea).</em> 21(19): 92 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Früh, L., H. Kampen, G.A. Schaub & D. Werner. (2019). Predation on the invasive mosquito Aedes japonicus (Diptera: Culicidae) by native copepod species in Germany. <em>Journal of Vector Ecology.</em> 44(2):241-247. Dec 2019., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/jvec.12355 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source MacLennan, M.M. (2015). Cumulative Impacts of Multiple Stressors on Aquatic Communities: Novel Fish Predators in Warming Mountain Lakes. <em>Ph.D. Thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.</em> 199 pp. [details] Available for editors
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Macrocyclops distinctus)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Macrocyclops distinctus)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record)
To ITIS
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