Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Cletocamptus axi Mielke, 2000

copépodo, Copepod

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Copepoda

Order
Harpacticoida

Family
Canthocamptidae

Genus
Cletocamptus

Species
axi

Taxon category: Accepted

References

  • 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.
  • Mielke, W. (2003) Meiobenthic copepods of Galápagos: species composition, distribution, colonization, speciation. Bull. of Marine Science 73(3): 557-568.
  • Mielke, W. (2000) Two new species of Cletocamptus (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from Galápagos, closely related to the cosmopolitan C. deitersi. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 20(2): 273–284.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Cletocamptus axi", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11820. Accessed 3 November 2026.