Mastigodiaptomus

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Kingdom Animalia Family Diaptomidae Phylum Arthropoda Rank Genus Subclass Copepod		Subphylum Crustacea Scientific name Mastigodiaptomus Higher classification Diaptomidae Order Calanoida

Similar Copepod, Calanoida, Diaptomidae, Crustacean, Leptodiaptomus sicilis

Mastigodiaptomus is a genus of Neotropical copepods in the family Diaptomidae. Two of the eight species in the genus are listed as Data Deficient (DD) on the IUCN Red List, and one is listed as a vulnerable species (VU):

Mastigodiaptomus albuquerquensis (Herrick, 1895) – Mexico, United States

Mastigodiaptomus amatitlanensis (M. S. Wilson, 1941) – Guatemala

Mastigodiaptomus maya Suárez-Morales & Elías-Gutiérrez, 2000 – Campeche

Mastigodiaptomus montezumae (Brehm, 1955) – central Mexico

Mastigodiaptomus nesus Bowman, 1986 – southeastern Mexico

Mastigodiaptomus purpureus (Marsh, 1907) – Cuba, Haiti

Mastigodiaptomus reidae Suárez-Morales & Elías-Gutiérrez, 2000 – Campeche

Mastigodiaptomus texensis M. S. Wilson, 1953 – Tamaulipas, Yucatán Peninsula

References

Mastigodiaptomus Wikipedia

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