Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Harpacticoida > Family Clytemnestridae

Clytemnestra Dana, 1848

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Clytemnestra scutellata Dana, 1848

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Japanese: クリテムネストラ属

Literature

original description	Dana, J.D. (1853-1855). Crustacea. Part II. In: United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes. U. S. N., C. Sherman Printer, Philadelphia. 14: 691-1618. [1855, folio atlas pls. 1-96.].
basis of record	Huys, R. (2001). Copepoda - Harpacticoida. In: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds.) 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. 50:268-280.
basis of record	Dana, J.D. (1848). Conspectus crustaceorum, in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Caroli Wilkes, e classe Reipublicae foederatae duce, collectorum auctore. Pars 1. Crustacea Copepoda (Cyclopacea). [Observations of crustaceans, collected by Charles Wilkes, captain of the United States Navy, during a circumnavigation of the world. Part 1. Crustacea Copepoda (Cyclopacea)]. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1: 149-155 (4.v.1847).
additional source	Poppe, S.A. (1891). Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Gattung Clytemnestra, Dana. [Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Clytemnestra, Dana.]. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen. 12:131-142, pl. 1.
additional source	Scott, A. (1909). The Copepoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part I. Free-swimming, littoral and semi-parasitic Copepoda. Siboga Expeditie, Monograph, Leiden. 29:1-323, pls. 1-69.
additional source	Bodin, P. (1997). Catalogue of the new marine Harpacticoid Copepods. Studiedocumenten van het K.B.I.N. = Documents de Travail de l'I.R.Sc.N.B., 89. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 89: 1-304.
additional source	Wilson, C.B. (1932). The copepods of the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 158:1-635, figs. 1-316, pls. 1-41.
additional source	Boxshall, G.A. (1979). The planktonic copepods of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean : Harpacticoida, Siphonostomatoida and Mormonilloida. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology. 35(3):201-264.
additional source	Okemwa, E.N. (1992). A long-term sampling study of copepods across a tropical creek in Mombasa, Kenya. East African Agriculture and Forestry Journal. 57(4):199-215.

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Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Clytemnestra Dana, 1848. 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:115273