Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Oithona plumifera
Copépodo, Copepod
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Copepoda
Order
Cyclopoida
Family
Oithonidae
Genus
Oithona
Species
plumifera
Taxon category: Accepted
Synonymised names Oithona plumifera plumifera Baird, 1843 (sole subspecies, essentially redundant) Oithona scriba (Dana, 1849) (listed as synonym by Giesbrecht, 1892) Scribella scriba Dana, 1849 (listed as synonym by Nishida, 1985)
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Oithona plumifera", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=18946. Accessed 9 May 2025.