Copepoda name details
Megacyclops gigas (Claus, 1857)
359277 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:359277)
alternative representation
Species
Acanthocyclops gigas (Claus, 1857) · unaccepted
Cyclops gigas Claus, 1857 · unaccepted
Cyclops ingens Herrick, 1882 · unaccepted
Cyclops viridis gigas Claus, 1857 · unaccepted
Cyclops viridis ingens Herrick, 1882 · unaccepted
- Subspecies Megacyclops gigas gigas (Claus, 1857)
- Subspecies Megacyclops gigas latipes (Lowndes, 1927) represented as Megacyclops latipes (Lowndes, 1927)
(of Cyclops gigas Claus, 1857) 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. Megacyclops gigas (Claus, 1857). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=359277 on 2026-03-21
original description
(of Cyclops gigas Claus, 1857) 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 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 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. (1988). Taxonomy of the genus Megacyclops (Crustacea, Copepoda): morphometry and the use of enzyme electrophoresis. <em>In: Boxshall, G.A. & H.K. Schminke (eds.). Biology of Copepods. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Copepoda. Developments in Hydrobiolology 47, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Hydrobiologia.</em> 47(167/168):387-391., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00026330 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Einsle, U. (1989). The identification of copepodid instars of some calanoid and cyclopoid copepods of Lake Konstanz, Federal Republic of Germany. Crustaceana, Leiden 57(1):79-87, figs. 1-7. (ix.1989), available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/156854089x00374 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Einsle, U. (1993). Megacyclops magnus (Marsh, 1920) (Crustacea, Copepoda) in northern Canada, a comparison with European Megacyclops species. Canadian Journal of Zoology 71(7):1434-1438, figs. 1-5. (French summary.), available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z93-198 [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 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): 1845, 2370, 2375, 2378, 2481, 3518, 3691, 407, 4623, 4624, 4817, 485, 4968, 4977, 4978, 4979, 4980, 4981, 4982, 4983, 4986, 4987, 5000, 5159, 5201, 5284, 5513, 5760, 5763 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kiefer, F. (1973). Vergleichende Studien an Nauplien verschiedener Cyclopiden (Crustacea Copepoda). [Comparative studies on nauplii of different cyclopids (Crustacea Copepoda).]. <em>Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia.</em> 30: 45-60, figs. 1-25. [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): 53-54 [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): 266-270 [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 Srámek-Husek, R. (1960). Perlocky a klanonozci ze zátopového uzeni lipenskí prehrady. Die Cladoceren und Copepoden aus dem Staugebiet der Bupno-Talsperre. [The Cladocera and Copepods from the Bupno Dam Reservoir. <em>Casopis Národniho Musea, Prague.</em> 129(1):37-47, figs. 1-16, tabs. 1-2. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Waervågen, S.B. & J.P. Nilssen. (2010). Life histories and seasonal dynamics of common boreal pelagic copepods (Crustacea, Copepoda) inhabiting an oligotrophic Fennoscandian lake. <em>Journal of Limnology.</em> 69(2):311-332., available online at https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2010.311 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Milbrink, G. (1969). Microgradients at the mud water interface. <em>Reports of the Institute of Freshwater Research, Drottningholm.</em> 49:129-148., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2077/48957 [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 Novichkova, A., A.A. Kotov & E.S. Chertoprud. (2020). Freshwater crustaceans of Bykovsky Peninsula and neighboring territory (Northern Yakutia, Russia). <em>Arthropoda Selecta.</em> 29(1):1-12., available online at https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.29.1.01 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Soesbergen, M. (2021). The genus Megacyclops (Crustacea: Copepoda) in the Netherlands: Distribution and ecology. <em>International Journal of Fauna and Biological Studies.</em> 8(1, Part 1A):28-33., available online at https://doi.org/10.22271/23940522.2021.v8.i1a.789 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Yagci, M.A., R. Uysal, A. Yagci & V. Yegen. (2024). Issıklı Gölü (Civril-Denizli/Türkiye) zooplankton daggılımı ve kompozisyonunun trofik durum değerlendirmesi ile arasstirilmasi. Investigations on the zooplankton distribution and composition of Isikli Lake (Civril-Denizli/Türkiye), with a trophic status assessment. <em>Ege Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 41(1):1-7., available online at https://doi.org/10.12714/egejfas.41.1.01 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Raddum, G.G., P. Brettum, D. Matzow, J.P. Nilssen, A. Skov, T. Svealv & R.F. Wright. (1986). Liming the acid Lake Hovvatn, Norway: A whole-ecosystem study. <em>Water, Air, and Soil Pollution.</em> 31:721-763., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00284222 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Jordan, K., N. Sheveleva, M. Holynska & G.A. Wyngaard. (2025). Endoreduplication during embryogenesis in Megacyclops gigas (Crustacea: Cyclopoida): A rare example of depolyploidization. <em>Invertebrate Biology.</em> 144(1):1-15. e00012 Jun 2025., available online at https://doi.org/10.71161/ivb.144.1.2024.00012 [details] Available for editors [request]
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 Havlíková, P. (2011). Srovnávací studie fluviálních jezer středního Polabí horní Lužnice a horní Svratky. [Comparing Study of Fluvial Lakes in Middle Part of Elbe River and Upper Parts of Lužnice and Svratka River.]. <em>Doctoral Dissertation, Přírodovědecká Fakulta, Univerzita Karlova, Prague, Czech Republic.</em> 207 pp. [In Czech; English abstract]., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/35207 [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 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 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. (1988). Taxonomy of the genus Megacyclops (Crustacea, Copepoda): morphometry and the use of enzyme electrophoresis. <em>In: Boxshall, G.A. & H.K. Schminke (eds.). Biology of Copepods. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Copepoda. Developments in Hydrobiolology 47, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Hydrobiologia.</em> 47(167/168):387-391., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00026330 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Einsle, U. (1989). The identification of copepodid instars of some calanoid and cyclopoid copepods of Lake Konstanz, Federal Republic of Germany. Crustaceana, Leiden 57(1):79-87, figs. 1-7. (ix.1989), available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/156854089x00374 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Einsle, U. (1993). Megacyclops magnus (Marsh, 1920) (Crustacea, Copepoda) in northern Canada, a comparison with European Megacyclops species. Canadian Journal of Zoology 71(7):1434-1438, figs. 1-5. (French summary.), available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z93-198 [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 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): 1845, 2370, 2375, 2378, 2481, 3518, 3691, 407, 4623, 4624, 4817, 485, 4968, 4977, 4978, 4979, 4980, 4981, 4982, 4983, 4986, 4987, 5000, 5159, 5201, 5284, 5513, 5760, 5763 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kiefer, F. (1973). Vergleichende Studien an Nauplien verschiedener Cyclopiden (Crustacea Copepoda). [Comparative studies on nauplii of different cyclopids (Crustacea Copepoda).]. <em>Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia.</em> 30: 45-60, figs. 1-25. [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): 53-54 [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): 266-270 [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 Srámek-Husek, R. (1960). Perlocky a klanonozci ze zátopového uzeni lipenskí prehrady. Die Cladoceren und Copepoden aus dem Staugebiet der Bupno-Talsperre. [The Cladocera and Copepods from the Bupno Dam Reservoir. <em>Casopis Národniho Musea, Prague.</em> 129(1):37-47, figs. 1-16, tabs. 1-2. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Waervågen, S.B. & J.P. Nilssen. (2010). Life histories and seasonal dynamics of common boreal pelagic copepods (Crustacea, Copepoda) inhabiting an oligotrophic Fennoscandian lake. <em>Journal of Limnology.</em> 69(2):311-332., available online at https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2010.311 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Milbrink, G. (1969). Microgradients at the mud water interface. <em>Reports of the Institute of Freshwater Research, Drottningholm.</em> 49:129-148., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2077/48957 [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 Novichkova, A., A.A. Kotov & E.S. Chertoprud. (2020). Freshwater crustaceans of Bykovsky Peninsula and neighboring territory (Northern Yakutia, Russia). <em>Arthropoda Selecta.</em> 29(1):1-12., available online at https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.29.1.01 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Soesbergen, M. (2021). The genus Megacyclops (Crustacea: Copepoda) in the Netherlands: Distribution and ecology. <em>International Journal of Fauna and Biological Studies.</em> 8(1, Part 1A):28-33., available online at https://doi.org/10.22271/23940522.2021.v8.i1a.789 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Yagci, M.A., R. Uysal, A. Yagci & V. Yegen. (2024). Issıklı Gölü (Civril-Denizli/Türkiye) zooplankton daggılımı ve kompozisyonunun trofik durum değerlendirmesi ile arasstirilmasi. Investigations on the zooplankton distribution and composition of Isikli Lake (Civril-Denizli/Türkiye), with a trophic status assessment. <em>Ege Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 41(1):1-7., available online at https://doi.org/10.12714/egejfas.41.1.01 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Raddum, G.G., P. Brettum, D. Matzow, J.P. Nilssen, A. Skov, T. Svealv & R.F. Wright. (1986). Liming the acid Lake Hovvatn, Norway: A whole-ecosystem study. <em>Water, Air, and Soil Pollution.</em> 31:721-763., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00284222 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Jordan, K., N. Sheveleva, M. Holynska & G.A. Wyngaard. (2025). Endoreduplication during embryogenesis in Megacyclops gigas (Crustacea: Cyclopoida): A rare example of depolyploidization. <em>Invertebrate Biology.</em> 144(1):1-15. e00012 Jun 2025., available online at https://doi.org/10.71161/ivb.144.1.2024.00012 [details] Available for editors
[request]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 Havlíková, P. (2011). Srovnávací studie fluviálních jezer středního Polabí horní Lužnice a horní Svratky. [Comparing Study of Fluvial Lakes in Middle Part of Elbe River and Upper Parts of Lužnice and Svratka River.]. <em>Doctoral Dissertation, Přírodovědecká Fakulta, Univerzita Karlova, Prague, Czech Republic.</em> 207 pp. [In Czech; English abstract]., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/35207 [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
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Cyclops gigas Claus, 1857)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Megacyclops gigas)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Megacyclops gigas)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Image from synonym