CYCLOPINAE Kiefer, 1927 CRYPTOCYCLOPS G. O. Sars, 1927 Cryptocyclops attenuatus (G.O. Sars, 1909) [Africa; lakes] Cryptocyclops bicolor bicolor (G.O. Sars, 1863) [cosmopolitan, except Australia; fresh waters] Cryptocyclops bicolor breviramus (Fryer, 1957) [Malawi; fresh waters] Cryptocyclops bicolor transactor (Plesa, 1981) [Cuba; ground waters] Cryptocyclops caudatus G.O. Sars, 1927 [Africa; fresh waters] * Cryptocyclops diminutus (Lindberg, 1937) [Asia; fresh waters] Cryptocyclops exiguus (G.O.Sars, 1909) [Africa; Madagascar; lakes] Cryptocyclops falsus (Kiefer, 1926) [Africa; fresh waters] Cryptocyclops gemellus (Gurney, 1928) [Africa; lakes] Cryptocyclops inchoatus Shen & Sung, 1965 [China; fresh waters] Cryptocyclops intermedius Shen & Tai, 1964 [China; fresh waters] [PDF] Cryptocyclops javanus Kiefer, 1930 [China, Java; fresh waters] Cryptocyclops kentanensis (Harada, 1931) [China, Formosa; fresh waters] Cryptocyclops levis Kiefer, 1952 [Africa, Zaire; fresh waters] * Cryptocyclops linjanticus (Kiefer, 1928) [Africa, Madagascar, Portugal, Fiji, Yemen; fresh waters] Cryptocyclops longiarticulatus Shen & Tai, 1964 [China; fresh waters] Cryptocyclops nyasae (Fryer, 1957) [Malawi; lakes] Cryptocyclops symoensis Kiefer, 1956 [Tanganika; lakes] Cryptocyclops tanganicae (Gurney, 1928) [Tanganica; lakes] Cryptocyclops tricolor (Lindberg, 1937) [Asia; fresh waters] Cryptocyclops uviramus Kiefer 1958 [Tanganika; lakes] * questionable species FIMBRICYCLOPS Reid, 1993 The genus is distinguished from other members of the family Cyclopidae, subfamily Cyclopinae, by the combined characters of the antennule of the female having 11 articles, the antenna lacking an exopodite seta, the mandible with the palp represented only by 1 seta, the maxilliped having 4 articles and a reduced number of setae on articles 1, 2, and 4, the biarticulate rami of legs 1-4, the leg 5 with the proximal article fused to the somite and the distal article broader than long, and the peculiar somitic ornament consisting of rows of spines on the lateral surfaces of the posterior prosomites and the posterior hyaline membranes of the anterior 2 (in the female) and 3 (in the male) urosomites modified as a spinous fringe. Leg 6 of the male bears 3 plumed appendages of which the medialmost is spiniform and most thickly set with stiff spinules (from: Reid, 1993). Fimbricyclops jimhensoni Reid, 1993 [Puerto Rico; bromeliads] FIERSCYCLOPS Karanovic, 2004 Recently Karanovic (2006) splitted the genus Fierscyclops in two subgenera: Fierscyclops s.str. and Pilbaracyclops. Fierscyclops (F.) fiersi (De Laurentiis, Pesce & Humphreys, 2001) [W-Australia; ground waters] (left) [PDF] synonymy: Metacyclops fiersi De Laurentiis, Pesce & Humphreys, 2001 Fierscyclops (P.) supersensus Karanovic, 2006 [Australia; large bores] Fierscyclops (P.) frustratio Karanovic, 2006 [Australia; lake] KIEFERIELLA Lescher-Moutouč, 1976 Kieferiella delamarei (Lescher-Moutoué, 1971) [France; ground waters] GONIOCYCLOPS Kiefer, 1955 Goniocyclops alter Kiefer, 1955 [Madagascar; psammon] Goniocyclops arenicola Dussart, 1984 [New Caledonia; lakes, interstitial] [PDF] Goniocyclops mortoni Karanovic, 2004 [W-Australia; ground waters] Goniocyclops primus Kiefer, 1955 [Madagascar; psammon] Goniocyclops silvestris Harding, 1958 [New Zealand; fresh waters] (left) [PDF] Goniocyclops uniarticulatus Karanovic, 2004 [W-Australia; ground waters] IDIOCYCLOPS Herbst, 1987 Idiocyclops stocki Herbst, 1987 [Barbados; wells] | PAGE UPDATED JANUARY 21. 2010 | Copyright © 1999-2010 G. L. Pesce - All Rights Reserved. Text and images on this website may not be redistributed or put as part of any collection (image archives, CDs etc) without prior written permission