WoRMS taxon details
original description
Sars, G.O. (1863). Oversigt af de indenlandske Ferskvandcopepoder. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiana.</em> 1862:212-262. page(s): 230. [details]
original description
(of Canthocamptus pygmaeus Sars G.O., 1863) Sars, G.O. (1863). Oversigt af de indenlandske Ferskvandcopepoder. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiana.</em> 1862:212-262. [details]
original description
(of Canthocamptus borcherdingii Poppe, 1889) Poppe, S.A. (1889). Notizen zur Fauna der Süsswasser-Becken des nord-westlichen Deutschland mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Crustaceen. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen 10:517-551, pl. 8. [details]
basis of record
Defaye, D. & B.H. Dussart. (2011). World Directory of Crustacea Copepoda III - Harpacticoida IV - Gelyelloida. <em>Backhuys Publishers, Margraf Publishers GmbH.</em> 450 pp. page(s): 160 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Borutzky, E.V. (1964). Freshwater Harpacticoida. Fauna of USSR, Crustacea. <em>Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.</em> Translated from russian by the Israel Programm of Scientific Translations, Jerusalem. 3(4):1-396, figs. 1-116. page(s): 183 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Distribution almost throughout Europe. Apparently absent from the tundra in the far north of Europe. Northamerica. In Russia: apparently absent from Siberia. [details]
Distribution Additional distribution notes: In Northamerica: New York. In Asia: Turkey including Lake Van. In Russia: Caucasus. [details]
Ecology Very abundant in spring fens of the Czech and Slovakian mountains [details]
Habitat caves [details]
Habitat meanly on mosses, leave litter and leave axils, live also in insterstitial environments (sometimes in city pipes), lakes and ponds. [details]
Morphology morphological variability on lenght of swimming legs and morphology of caudal rami, depending on environment (mosses or free water body). [details]
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