Galapagos Species Database

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

Schizothrix ctenata (Mielke, 1982)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Copepoda

Order
Harpacticoida

Family
Leptastacidae

Genus
Schizothrix

Species
ctenata

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Leptastacus ctenatus Mielke, 1982 (Horton et al., 2021)

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

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.
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
  • Mielke, W. (2003) Meiobenthic copepods of Galápagos: species composition, distribution, colonization, speciation. Bull. of Marine Science 73(3): 557-568.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Schizothrix ctenata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12617. Accessed 4 November 2026.