Monstrilla

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Monstrilloida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Copepoda Infraclassis: Neocopepoda Superordo: Podoplea Ordo: Monstrilloida

Familia: Monstrillidae
Genus: Monstrilla
Species (56): M. chetumalensis – M. ilhoii – M. mahahualensis –

Name

Monstrilla Dana, 1849

Synonyms

Thaumatoessia Kroyer. Type species: Thaumatoessia typica Kroyer
Thaumaleus Kroyer, 1849. Type species: Thaumaleus typica Kroyer, 1849 [=Thaumatoessia typica Kroyer ]

References

Dana, J.D. 1849. Conspectus Crustaceorum quae in Orbis Terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e Classe Reipublicae Faederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit Jacobus D. Dana. Pars II. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2: 9–61. JSTOR BHL Reference page.
Lee, J. & Chang, C.Y. 2016. A new species of Monstrilla Dana, 1849 (Copepoda: Monstrilloida: Monstrillidae) from Korea, including a key to species from the north-west Pacific. In Huys (ed.), Recent Developments in Systematics and Biodiversity of Symbiotic Copepoda (Crustacea)—A Volume in Celebration of the Career of Prof. Il-Hoi Kim. Zootaxa 4174(1): 396–409. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4174.1.24. Reference page.
Suarez-Morales, E. 1993: Monstrilla reidae, a new species of monstrilloid copepod from the Caribbean Sea off Mexico. Bulletin of marine science, 52(2): 717–720.
Suarez-Morales, E. 2010: On the taxonomic status of Monstrilla leucopis Sars (Crustacea: Copepoda: Monstrilloida) from Norway, with comments on the male of M. longiremis Giesbrecht. Zootaxa, 2510: 55–67. Preview
Suárez-Morales, E. 2022. A new species of Monstrilla (Copepoda, Monstrilloida) from the western Caribbean with comments on M. wandelii Austria, 1913 and M. conjunctiva Giesbrecht, 1893. Zookeys 1128ː 33–45. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1128.84944 Reference page.
Suárez-Morales, E. & Castellanos-Osorio, I.A. 2019. A new species of Monstrilla (Copepoda, Monstrilloida) from the plankton of a large coastal system of the northwestern Caribbean with a key to species. ZooKeys, 876: 111–123. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.876.38400 . Reference page.