Tropodiaptomus
Encyclopedia
Tropodiaptomus is a genus of copepod
s in the family Diaptomidae
. It includes the following species, many of which are narrow endemics and are included on the IUCN Red List
(VU: vulnerable species
; EX: extinct
; DD: data deficient
):
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 in the family Diaptomidae
Diaptomidae
Diaptomidae is a family of freshwater pelagic copepods. It includes around 50 genera:*Acanthodiaptomus Kiefer, 1932*Aglaodiaptomus Light, 1938*Allodiaptomus Kiefer, 1936*Arctodiaptomus Kiefer, 1932*Argyrodiaptomus Brehm, 1933...
. It includes the following species, many of which are narrow endemics and are included on the IUCN Red List
IUCN Red List
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species , founded in 1963, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature is the world's main authority on the conservation status of species...
(VU: vulnerable species
Vulnerable species
On 30 January 2010, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species identified 9694 Vulnerable species, subspecies and varieties, stocks and sub-populations.-References:...
; EX: extinct
Extinction
In biology and ecology, extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms , normally a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point...
; DD: data deficient
Data Deficient
Data Deficient is a category applied by the IUCN, other agencies, and individuals to a species when the available information is not sufficient for a proper assessment of conservation status to be made...
):
- Tropodiaptomus agegedensis (S. Wright & Tressler, 1928)
- Tropodiaptomus asimi Dumont & Maas, 1989
- Tropodiaptomus australis Kiefer, 1936
- Tropodiaptomus banforanus Kiefer, 1932
- Tropodiaptomus bhangazii Rayner, 1994
- Tropodiaptomus borutzkyi Stepanova in Borutsky, Stepanova & Kos, 1991
- Tropodiaptomus burundensis Dumont & Maas, 1988
- Tropodiaptomus capriviensis Rayner, 1994
- Tropodiaptomus chauhani Roy, 1984
- Tropodiaptomus ctenopus (Kiefer, 1930)
- Tropodiaptomus cunningtoni (G. O. Sars, 1909)
- Tropodiaptomus czekanowskii (Grochmalicki, 1913)
- Tropodiaptomus digitatus Dussart, 1981
- Tropodiaptomus doriai (Richard, 1894)
- Tropodiaptomus episcopus (Brehm, 1930)
- Tropodiaptomus euchaetus Kiefer, 1936
- Tropodiaptomus falcatus Kiefer, 1933
- Tropodiaptomus femineus (Kiefer, 1930)
- Tropodiaptomus foresti Defaye, 2002
- Tropodiaptomus gemini Brehm, 1951
- Tropodiaptomus gigantoviger Brehm, 1933
- Tropodiaptomus hebereri (Kiefer, 1930)
- Tropodiaptomus hutchinsoni (Kiefer, 1927)
- Tropodiaptomus imitator Brehm, 1955
- Tropodiaptomus incognitus Dussart & Gras, 1966
- Tropodiaptomus kieferi Marquès, 1966
- Tropodiaptomus kilimensis (Daday, 1910)
- Tropodiaptomus kissi Dussart, 1978
- Tropodiaptomus kraepelini (Poppe & Mrázek, 1895)
- Tropodiaptomus lakhimpurensis Reddiah, 1964
- Tropodiaptomus lanaonus Kiefer, 1982
- Tropodiaptomus lateralis Kiefer, 1932
- Tropodiaptomus laurentii Gauthier, 1951
- Tropodiaptomus loveni (Guerne & Richard, 1890)
- Tropodiaptomus madagascariensis (Rylov, 1918)
- Tropodiaptomus magnus Kiefer, 1933
- Tropodiaptomus malaicus (Grochmalicki, 1915)
- Tropodiaptomus monardi Kiefer, 1937
- Tropodiaptomus mutatus Kiefer, 1936
- Tropodiaptomus neumanni (Douwe, 1912)
- Tropodiaptomus nielseni Brehm, 1952
- Tropodiaptomus njinei Chiambeng & Dumont, 2002
- Tropodiaptomus novaeguineae Brehm, 1959
- Tropodiaptomus orientalis (Brady, 1886)
- Tropodiaptomus oryzanus Kiefer, 1937
- Tropodiaptomus palustris (Kiss, 1960)
- Tropodiaptomus processifer (Kiefer, 1926)
- Tropodiaptomus ricardoae (Harding, 1942)
- Tropodiaptomus ruttneri (Brehm, 1923)
- Tropodiaptomus schmeili (Kiefer, 1926)
- Tropodiaptomus schubotzi (Douwe, 1914)
- Tropodiaptomus signatus Kiefer, 1982
- Tropodiaptomus simplex (G. O. Sars, 1909) (Lake TanganyikaLake TanganyikaLake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake. It is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, and the second deepest, after Lake Baikal in Siberia; it is also the world's longest freshwater lake...
) - Tropodiaptomus spectabilis (Kiefer, 1929)
- Tropodiaptomus stuhlmanni (Mrázek, 1895) (Lake VictoriaLake VictoriaLake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was named for Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, by John Hanning Speke, the first European to discover this lake....
) - Tropodiaptomus symoensi Einsle, 1971
- Tropodiaptomus turkanae Maas, Green & Dumont, 1995
- Tropodiaptomus vandouwei (Früchtl, 1924)
- Tropodiaptomus vicinus (Kiefer, 1930)
- Tropodiaptomus worthingtoni (Lowndes, 1936)
- Tropodiaptomus zambeziensis Rayner, 1994