Cyclopina adelphae

Cyclopina adelphae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Copepoda
Order: Cyclopoida
Family: Cyclopinidae
Genus: Cyclopina
Species:
C. adelphae
Binomial name
Cyclopina adelphae
Karanovic, 2008
Holotype site: Dampier, Western Australia

Cyclopina adelphae is a species of copepod belonging to the order Cyclopoida, in the family, Cyclopinidae. The species was first described in 2008 by zoologist, Tomislav Karanovic. Its initial epithet was adelphe.

The species is known only from its type locality in Dampier, Western Australia. It difffers from other Australian Cyclopina species by having its third endopodal segment of second, third, and fourth legs with four setae, and its antennula being 11-segmented.

References

  1. 1 2 "Australian Faunal Directory: Cyclopina adelphe Karanovic, 2008". biodiversity.org.au. Archived from the original on 2022-03-12. Retrieved 2026-02-11.
  2. 1 2 "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Cyclopina adelphae Karanovic, 2008". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2026-02-10.
  3. 1 2 3 Karanovic, T. (2008). Marine Interstitial Poecilostomatoida and Cyclopoida (Copepoda) of Australia. Crustaceana Monograph, Brill, Leiden 9:1-336
  4. ↑ Karanovic, Tomislav (2008). "Key To Australian Species Of The Genus Cyclopina". brill.com. Retrieved 2026-02-11.