Dussartcyclops mortoni

Dussartcyclops mortoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Copepoda
Order: Cyclopoida
Family: Cyclopidae
Genus: Dussartcyclops
Species:
D. mortoni
Binomial name
Dussartcyclops mortoni
(Karanovic, 2004)
Synonyms

Goniocyclops mortoni Karanovic, 2004
Dussartcyclops (Dussartcyclops) mortoni (Karanovic, 2004)

Dussartcyclops mortoni is a species of copepod in the family, Cyclopidae, and was first described as Goniocyclops uniarticulatus in 2004 by Tomislav Karanovic.[2][3][4] In 2011, Karanovic, Stefan Eberhard and A. Murdoch, assigned it to the new genus, Dussartcyclops.[3][5]

It is a freshwater copepod species,[3] found in subterranean wells and bores in arid Western Australia.[6][4]

References

  1. ^ "GBIF: Occurrence 26 June 2000: Dussartcyclops (Dussartcyclops) uniarticulatus (Karanovic, 2004)". gbif.org.
  2. ^ "Australian Faunal Directory: Dussartcyclops mortoni (Karanovic, 2004". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
  3. ^ a b c "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Dussartcyclops (Dussartcyclops) mortoni (Karanovic, 2004)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
  4. ^ a b Tomislav Karanovic (2004), Subterranean copepods (Crustacea, Copepoda) from arid Western Australia, Zeist: Brill Publishers, Wikidata Q138313488
  5. ^ T. Karanovic; S. M. Eberhard; A. Murdoch (1 January 2011). "A cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision of Australian Metacyclops and Goniocyclops, with description of four new species and three new genera (Copepoda, Cyclopoida)". Crustaceana. 84 (1): 1–67. doi:10.1163/001121610X546698. ISSN 0011-216X. Wikidata Q54537516.
  6. ^ "GBIF: Dussartcyclops mortoni (Karanovic, 2004)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 26 February 2026.