Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Parent Oithona Baird, 1843 Orig. name Oithona similis Claus, 1866 Synonymised names Oithona helgolandica (Claus, 1863) Oithona pygmaea Boeck, 1865 (listed as probable synonym by Giesbrecht, 1892) Oithona spinifrons Boeck, 1865 Oithonella helgolandica Claus, 1863 (synonym)

Origin: Native

Distribution: Western zone: Isabela, Fernandina

• Diego F. Figueroa (2021) Environmental forcing on zooplankton distribution in the coastal waters of the Galápagos Islands: spatial and seasonal patterns in the copepod community structure Vol. 661: 49–69, 2021 https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13617 https://www.int-res.com/articles/meps_oa/m661p049.pdf
• 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.