Platycopiidae

Platycopiidae
Platycopia perplexa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Copepoda
Infraclass: Progymnoplea
Lang, 1948
Order: Platycopioida
Fosshagen, 1985
Family: Platycopiidae
G. O. Sars, 1911
Genera

Platycopiidae is a family of copepods. Until the description of Nanocopia in 1988, it contained the single genus Platycopia.[1] It now contains four genera, three of which are monotypic; the exception is Platycopia, with 8 species.

  1. ^ Fosshagen, Audun; Iliffe, Thomas M. (1988). "A new genus of Platycopioida (Copepoda) from a marine cave on Bermuda". Hydrobiologia. 167: 357–361. doi:10.1007/bf00026325. S2CID 38512647.