Cletocamptus helobius

Cletocamptus helobius
Cletocamptus helobius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Maxillopoda
Subclass: Copepoda
Order: Harpacticoida
Family: Canthocamptidae
Genus: Cletocamptus
Species: C. helobius
Binomial name
Cletocamptus helobius
Fleeger, 1980

Cletocamptus helobius is a species of copepod that lives in the waters of North America.

One of 29 species in the genus Cletocamptus,[1] it was first described by John W. Fleeger in 1980.[2] The species has been used in a study of the evolution of the DNA of the related species Cletocamptus deitersi.[3]

References

  1. ^ The World of Copepods, Smithsonian Institution, 2004. Accessed October 22, 2007.
  2. ^ "Cletocamptus helobius Fleeger, 1980". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=667937. Retrieved September 1, 2011. 
  3. ^ Axayácatl Rocha-Olivares, John W. Fleeger & David W. Foltz (2001). "Decoupling of molecular and morphological evolution in deep lineages of a meiobenthic harpacticoid copepod". Molecular Biology and Evolution 18 (6): 1088–1102. PMID 11371597. http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/18/6/1088. 


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