Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Paramisophria galapagensis
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Found in subterranean anchialine salt and brackish waters in caves.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Copepoda
Order
Calanoida
Family
Arietellidae
Genus
Paramisophria
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.
- 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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"Galapagos Species Database, Paramisophria galapagensis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11808. Accessed 3 November 2026.