''Notodiaptomus'' is a genus of
copepod
Copepods (; meaning "oar-feet") are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat (ecology), habitat. Some species are planktonic (inhabiting sea waters), some are benthos, benthic (living on the ocean floor) ...
s in the family
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, ...
. It is the most widely distributed, most abundant and most species-rich genus of freshwater
calanoid
Calanoida is an order of copepods, a group of arthropods commonly found as zooplankton. The order includes around 46 families with about 1800 species of both marine and freshwater copepods between them.
Description
Calanoids can be distinguis ...
copepods in the
Neotropics.
The genus was erected in 1936 by
Friedrich Kiefer Professor Friedrich Kiefer (9 September 1897 – 18 April 1985) was a German zoologist, specialising in freshwater copepods. For over 60 years, he was "the preeminent morphological taxonomist of continental free-living copepods".
Kiefer was born in ...
for eleven species formerly placed in a wider ''
Diaptomus''. ''
Notodiaptomus deitersi'' was chosen to be the
type species by
Raúl Adolfo Ringuelet
Raúl Adolfo Ringuelet Ph.D. (1914 – 1982) was an Argentine zoologist.
Ringuelet published more than 100 scientific papers on the ecology, limnology, biogeography, and conservation of South American freshwaters, and was a mentor to a whole gener ...
in 1958.
The genus ''Notodiaptomus'' includes 34 valid species, and two ''
species inquirenda
In biological classification, a ''species inquirenda'' is a species of doubtful identity requiring further investigation. The use of the term in English-language biological literature dates back to at least the early nineteenth century.
The term t ...
''. Its members include the
Venezuelan
endemic ''Notodiaptomus maracaibensis'' and the
Brazilian endemic ''Notodiaptomus dubius'', both of which are listed as
vulnerable species on the
IUCN Red List.
*''
Notodiaptomus amazonicus''
(S. Wright, 1935)
*''
Notodiaptomus anceps''
Brehm, 1958
*''
Notodiaptomus anisitsi''
(Daday, 1905)
*''
Notodiaptomus bidigitatus''
(Brehm, 1958)
*''
Notodiaptomus brandorffi''
Reid, 1987
*''
Notodiaptomus carteri''
(Lowndes, 1934)
*''
Notodiaptomus cearensis''
(S. Wright, 1936)
*''
Notodiaptomus conifer''
(G. O. Sars, 1901)
*''
Notodiaptomus coniferoides''
(S. Wright, 1927)
*''
Notodiaptomus dahli''
(S. Wright, 1936)
*''
Notodiaptomus deitersi''
(Poppe, 1891)
*''
Notodiaptomus dentatus''
Paggi, 2001
*''
Notodiaptomus difficilis''
Dussart & Frutos, 1987
*''
Notodiaptomus dilatatus''
Dussart, 1984
*''
Notodiaptomus dubius''
Dussart, 1986
*''
Notodiaptomus echinatus
''Notodiaptomus'' is a genus of copepods in the family Diaptomidae. It is the most widely distributed, most abundant and most species-rich genus of freshwater calanoid copepods in the Neotropics. The genus was erected in 1936 by Friedrich Kiefer ...
''
(Lowndes, 1934)
*''
Notodiaptomus gibber''
(Poppe, 1889)
*''
Notodiaptomus henseni''
(F. Dahl, 1894)
*''
Notodiaptomus iheringi''
(S. Wright, 1935)
*''
Notodiaptomus incompositus''
(Brian, 1925)
*''
Notodiaptomus inflatus''
(Kiefer, 1933)
*''
Notodiaptomus isabelae''
(S. Wright, 1936)
*''
Notodiaptomus jatobensis''
(S. Wright, 1936)
*''
Notodiaptomus lobifer''
(Pesta, 1927)
*''
Notodiaptomus maracaibensis''
Kiefer, 1954
*''
Notodiaptomus nordestinus''
(S. Wright, 1935)
*''
Notodiaptomus orellanai''
Dussart, 1979
*''
Notodiaptomus paraensis''
Dussart & B. A. Robertson, 1984
*''
Notodiaptomus pseudodubius''
Defaye & Dussart, 1989
*''
Notodiaptomus santaremensis''
(S. Wright, 1927)
*''
Notodiaptomus simillimus''
Cicchino, Santos-Silva & Robertson, 2001
*''
Notodiaptomus spinuliferus''
Dussart, 1986
*''
Notodiaptomus susanae''
(Paggi, 1976)
*''
Notodiaptomus transitans''
(Kiefer, 1929)
*''
Notodiaptomus ohlei''
(Brandorff, 1978) (''
species inquirenda
In biological classification, a ''species inquirenda'' is a species of doubtful identity requiring further investigation. The use of the term in English-language biological literature dates back to at least the early nineteenth century.
The term t ...
'')
*''
Notodiaptomus santafesinus''
Ringuelet & Ferrato, 1967 (''
species inquirenda
In biological classification, a ''species inquirenda'' is a species of doubtful identity requiring further investigation. The use of the term in English-language biological literature dates back to at least the early nineteenth century.
The term t ...
'')
References
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Diaptomidae
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