EUCYCLOPINAE Kiefer, 1927


TROPOCYCLOPS Kiefer, 1927


The genus Tropocyclops, with a predominantly tropical-subtropical range, includes small to very small species that predominantly occupy the weedy littoral of lakes and ponds. A few species occur in the limnetic zone of large lakes.

The genus presently includes 45 named species and subspecies, widely distributed, mostly in fresh water bodies.


  • Tropocyclops bopingi Dumont, 2006 [China; fresh waters] [PDF]
  • Tropocyclops breviramus Hsiao, 1950 [China; fresh waters]
  • Tropocyclops brevis Dussart, 1972 [Africa; lakes]
  • Tropocyclops breviramatus Hsiao, 1950 [China; fresh waters]
  • Tropocyclops brevispinus Shen & Tai, 1962 [China, Japan; fresh waters]
  • Tropocyclops confinis confinis(Kiefer, 1930) [USA, Africa?, Madagascar, Asia; fresh waters]
  • Tropocyclops confinis frequens (Kiefer, 1931) [Africa, India, China; fresh waters]
  • Tropocyclops confinis awiensis Onabamiro, 1957 [Nigeria; fresh waters]
  • Tropocyclops confinis longifurca Dusssart, 1982 [Guadalupe; fresh waters] [PDF]
  • Tropocyclops extensus extensus (Kiefer, 1931) [USA, Haiti, Yucatan; fresh waters, cenotes]
  • Tropocyclops extensus f. longispina Kiefer, 1931 [USA, Mexico; fresh waters]
  • Tropocyclops federensis Reid, 1991 [Brazil; lakes]
  • Tropocyclops ishidai Lee & Chang 2007 Lee & Chang 2007 [Korea; springs] [PDF]
  • Tropocyclops jamaicensis Reid & Janetzky, 1996 [Jamaica; bromeliads]
  • Tropocyclops levequi Dumont, 1981 [Africa; springs] [PDF]
  • Tropocyclops longiabdominalis Shen & Tai, 1962 [China, Japan; fresh waters]
  • Tropocyclops matanoensis Defaye, 2007 [Indonesia; lake]
  • Tropocyclops mellanbyi Onabamiro, 1952 [Nigeria; fresh waters] +
  • Tropocyclops multicolor (Lindberg, 1935) [India; fresh waters]
  • Tropocyclops nananae Reid, 1991 [Brazil;lakes, ponds, wetlands]
  • Tropocyclops nigroviridis Harada, 1931 [Formosa, Japan; fresh waters] ++
  • Tropocyclops onabamiroi Lindberg, 1950 [Africa; lakes]
  • Tropocyclops parvus Kiefer, 1931 [Guatemala] [PDF] +++
  • Tropocyclops piscinalis Dussart, 1984 [Brazil: fresh water marshes]
  • Tropocyclops polkianus Einsle, 1971 [Africa; fresh waters, springs]
  • Tropocyclops prasinus prasinus (Fischer, 1860) [cosmopolitan; fresh surface and ground waters]
  • Tropocyclops prasinus breviramus (Hsiao, 1950) [China; fresh waters]
  • Tropocyclops prasinus candidiusi Harada, 1931 [Formosa, China; fresh waters]
  • Tropocyclops prasinus f. guwana Kiefer, 1931 [Java: fresh waters]
  • Tropocyclops prasinus jerseyensis Kiefer, 1931 [USA, China; fresh waters]
  • Tropocyclops prasinus meridionalis Kiefer, 1931 [South America. New Caledonia; fresh waters] [PDF] [PDF2]


  • Tropocyclops prasinus f. pelagica Lindberg, 1955[Sumatra; fresh waters] +
  • Tropocyclops prasinus mexicanus Kiefer, 1938 [Canada, USA, Mexico, Cuba, Brazil; fresh waters, cenotes]
  • Tropocyclops prasinus palniensis Lindberg, 1946 [India; fresh waters]
  • Tropocyclops prasinus aztequei Lindberg, 1955 [Mexico: fresh waters]
  • Tropocyclops prasinus aff. aztequei Lindberg, 1955 (in: Suarez-Morales et al., 1996) [Yucatan; cenotes]
  • Tropocyclops prasinus f. peruviana Lindbereg, 1955 [Perù; fresh waters] [PDF]
  • Tropocyclops prasinus shagamiensis Onabamiro. 1957 [Nigeria; fresh waters ]
  • Tropocyclops prasinus tjeefi Dumont, 1981 [Guinea; fresh waters] [PDF]
  • Tropocyclops prasinus divergens Dussart, 1982 [Guadalupe; fresh waters] [PDF]
  • Tropocyclops pseudoparvus Dussart & Fernando, 1986 [Costa Rica; fresh waters]
  • Tropocyclops rarus Dussart, 1983 [Guyana; fresh waters] (left) [PDF]


  • Tropocyclops schubarti schubarti (Kiefer, 1935) [Brazil; fresh waters, bromeliads, wetlands]
  • Tropocyclops schubarti dispar Herbst, 1962 [Brazil; dried shells of nuts]
  • Tropocyclops setulifer Lee & Chang 2007 Lee & Chang 2007 Lee & Chang 2007 [Korea; springs] [PDF]
  • Tropocyclops tenellus (G.O. Sars, 1909) [Afria, Madagascar, Guatemala?; lakes] [PDF]
  • Tropocyclops wellanbyi Onabamiro, 1952 [Nigeria; fresh waters] +

    + questionable species
    ++ probably syn. of T. prasinus prasinus
    +++ considered syn. of T. tenellus by Dussart & Defaye (1985)


    KEY TO AMERICAN SPECIES OF TROPOCYCLOPS IN: Reid J.W. 1991. Some species of Tropocyclops (Crustacea, Copepoda) from Brazil, with a key to the american species. Bijdr. tot Dierk., 61 (1): 3-15.



    AFROCYCLOPS G.O. Sars, 1927


  • Afrocyclops alter Kiefer, 1935 [Ethiopie; lakes]
  • Afrocyclops curticornis (Kiefer, 1932) [Africa; fresh waters]
  • Afrocyclops doryphorus (Kiefer, 1935) [Africa; fresh waters]
  • Afrocyclops gibsoni gibsoni (Brady, 1904) [Africa; fresh waters] [PDF]
  • Afrocyclops gibsoni abbreviatus (Kiefer, 1933) [Java, Bali, Madagascar; fresh waters]
  • Afrocyclops gibsoni ondoensis Kiefer, 1952) [Zaire; lakes]
  • Afrocyclops ikennus Onabamiro, 1957 [Nigeria; fresh waters]
  • Afrocyclops lanceolatus Kiefer, 1935 [Africa; fresh waters]
  • Afrocyclops pauliani Lindberg, 1951 [Madagascar; lakes]
  • Afrocyclops propinquus (Kiefer, 1932) [Africa; fresh waters]
  • Afrocyclops sparus Dussart, 1974 [Ethiopie; fresh waters]


    QUESTIONABLE SPECIES

  • Afrocyclops dumonti Alekseev (?)
  • Afrocyclops henrii Alekseev (?)




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