Centropages

Centropages is a genus of copepods in the family Centropagidae with 34 known marine species.^[2]

Centropages
Centropages typicus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Copepoda
Order:	Calanoida
Family:	Centropagidae
Genus:	Centropages Krøyer, 1849[1]
Species
See text

Species

Species accepted as of October 2023 are:^[3]

• Centropages abdominalis Sato, 1913
• Centropages acutus McKinnon & Dixon, 1994
• Centropages aegypticus El-Sherbiny & Ueda, 2008
• Centropages alcocki Sewell, 1912
• Centropages aucklandicus Krämer, 1895
• Centropages australiensis Fairbridge, 1944
• Centropages brachiatus (Dana, 1849)
• Centropages bradyi Wheeler, 1900
• Centropages brevifurcus Shen & Lee, 1963
• Centropages calaninus (Dana, 1849)
• Centropages caribbeanensis Park, 1970
• Centropages chierchiae Giesbrecht, 1889
• Centropages dorsispinatus Thompson I.C. & Scott A., 1903
• Centropages elegans Giesbrecht, 1895
• Centropages elongatus Giesbrecht, 1896
• Centropages furcatus (Dana, 1852)
• Centropages gracilis (Dana, 1849)
• Centropages halinus McKinnon & Kimmerer, 1988
• Centropages hamatus (Lilljeborg, 1853)
• Centropages karachiensis Haq & Rehman, 1973
• Centropages kroyeri Giesbrecht, 1892
• Centropages longicornis Mori, 1932
• Centropages maigo Ohtsuka, Itoh & Mizushima, 2005
• Centropages mohamedi El-Sherbiny & Al-Aidaroos, 2015
• Centropages natalensis Connell, 1981
• Centropages orsinii Giesbrecht, 1889
• Centropages ponticus Karavaev, 1895
• Centropages sinensis Chen & Zhang, 1965
• Centropages spinosus (Krichagin, 1873)
• Centropages tenuiremis Thompson I.C. & Scott A., 1903
• Centropages trispinosus Sewell, 1914
• Centropages typicus Krøyer, 1849
• Centropages uedai El-Sherbiny, 2011
• Centropages velificatus (Oliveira, 1947)
• Centropages violaceus (Claus, 1863)

References

1. Karcinologiske bidrag. HN Krøyer - 1849
2. Geoff Boxshall. T. Chad Walter; Geoff Boxshall (eds.). "Centropages Krøyer, 1849". World Copepoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
3. Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2023). World of Copepods Database. Centropages Krøyer, 1849. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104159 on 2023-10-28

External links

• Data related to Centropages at Wikispecies
• "Centropages". The Encyclopedia of Life.