Karllangia

Karllangia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Maxillopoda
Subclass:
Copepoda
Order:
Harpacticoida
Family:
Parastenheliidae
Genus:
Karllangia

Noodt, 1964
Type species
Karllangia arenicola
Noodt, 1964 [1]

Karllangia is a genus of marine copepods. Its name commemorates the Swedish carcinologist Karl Georg Herman Lang.[2] The genus contains five species:[3]

  1. ^ Rony Huys (2009). "Unresolved cases of type fixation, synonymy and homonymy in harpacticoid copepod nomenclature (Crustacea: Copepoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2183: 1–99. ISBN 978-1-86977-399-1.
  2. ^ Åke Andersson & F. D. Por (1977). "Karl Georg Herman Lang (1901–1976)". Crustaceana. 33 (2): 210–214. doi:10.1163/156854077X00124. JSTOR 20103218.
  3. ^ T. Chad Walter (2008). Walter TC, Boxshall G (eds.). "Karllangia Noodt, 1964". World of Copepods database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved March 2, 2010.