Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Gymnoplea > Order Calanoida > Family Tharybidae > Genus Neoscolecithrix

Neoscolecithrix farrani Smirnov, 1935

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Neoscolecithrix*	Canu, 1896	accepted genus name
*Oothrix*	Farran, 1905	synonym

Literature

original description	Smirnov, S.S. (1935). Über die angebliche Oothrix bidentata Farran aus dem Weissen Meer. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 109(9-10):3259-263.
original description	Prygunkova, R.V. (1972). Opisanie ranee neizvestnogo samtsa Neoscolecithrix farrani Smirnov (Copepoda) iz Belogo morya. [Description of unknown male of Neoscolecithrix farrani Smirnov (Copepoda) from the White Sea.]. In: Novye vidi morskikh i nazemnykh bespozvonochnykh. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Leningrad. 52:251-252, figs. 1-8. (20-xi-1972).
basis of record	Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 252-268
additional source	Shih, C.T. & N. Stallard. (1982). Notes on two deep-water calanoids (Aetideopsis rostrata and Neoscolecithrix farrani) from Lancaster Sound. Arctic 35(1):56-60, figs. 1-3. (iii-1982, French summary.)
ecology source	Brun, P., M.R. Payne & T. Kiørboe. (2017). A trait database for marine copepods. Earth System Science Data. 9(1):99-113.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Neoscolecithrix farrani Smirnov, 1935. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104884