Galapagos Species Database
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Expansophria galapagensis
copépodo, Copepod
Size female 0.66 mm, male 0.50 mm, eyeless
Found in subterranean anchialine salt and brackish waters in caves.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Copepoda
Order
Misophrioida
Family
Speleophriidae
Genus
Expansophria
Species
galapagensis
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Boxshall, G.A. Iliffe, T.M. (1990) Three New Species of Misophrioid Copepods from Oceanic Islands. J. Nat. Hist. 24(3): 595-613.
- Iliffe, T.M. (1991) Anchialine Fauna of the Galapagos Islands In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 209-231.
- Peck, S.B. (1994) Diversity and zoogeography of the non-oceanic Crustacea of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (excluding terrestrial Isopoda). Canadian Journal of Zoology 72: 54-69.
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