Karllangia
Encyclopedia
Karllangia is a genus
of marine copepod
s. Its name commemorates the Swedish carcinologist Karl Georg Herman Lang
. The genus contains five species:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of marine copepod
Copepod
Copepods are a group of small crustaceans found in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat. Some species are planktonic , some are benthic , and some continental species may live in limno-terrestrial habitats and other wet terrestrial places, such as swamps, under leaf fall in wet forests,...
s. Its name commemorates the Swedish carcinologist Karl Georg Herman Lang
Karl Georg Herman Lang
Karl Georg Herman Lang was a Swedish zoologist, specialising in crustaceans, especially harpacticoid copepods and tanaids. He was born in Malmö and gained a doctoral degree from the Lund University in 1924. He spent much of his early career working as a teacher in elementary schools in Eslöv, Lund...
. The genus contains five species:
- Karllangia arenicola Noodt, 1964
- Karllangia obscura Mielke, 1994
- Karllangia ornatissima (Monard, 1935)
- Karllangia psammophila Wells, 1967
- Karllangia pulchra Mielke, 1994