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

Stenhelia Boeck, 1865

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Stenhelia (Stenhelia)*	Boeck, 1865	synonym

Children

Stenhelia curviseta Lang, 1936
Stenhelia gibba Boeck, 1865
Stenhelia hirsuta Thompson I.C., 1893
Stenhelia proxima Sars G.O., 1906

Literature

original description	Boeck, A. (1865). Oversigt over de ved Norges Kyster jagttagne Copepoder henhorende til Calanidernes, Cyclopidernes og Harpactidernes Familier. [Overview of the Copepods hunted on the coast of Norway belonging to the families Calanoidae, Cyclopoidae and Harpacticodidae.]. Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania. 1864: 226-282 [for 1864 however published in 1865].
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.
additional source	Brady, G.S. (1880). A monograph of the free and semi-parasitic Copepoda of the British Islands. Ray Society, London. 2:1-182, pls. 34-82.
additional source	Noodt, W. (1955). Marmara denizi Harpacticoiden (Crust. Cop.). Marine Harpacticoiden (Crust. Cop.) aus dem Marmare Meer. [Marine Harpacticoida (Crust. Cop.) from the Marmare Sea.]. Istanbul Universitesi Fen Fakultesi Mecmuasi. (B)20(1-2):49-94, figs. 1-103. (i/iv-1955).
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	Coull, B.C. (1976). A revised key to Stenhelia (Delavalia) (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) including a new species from South Carolina, U.S.A. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London 59(4):353-364, figs. 1-3, tab. 1. (xii-1976)
additional source	Sars, G.O. (1906). Copepoda Harpacticoida. Parts XV & XVI. Diosaccidae (concluded), Canthocamptidae (part). An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum, Bergen. 5:173-196, pls. 113-128.
additional source	Lang, K. (1965). Copepoda Harpacticoida from the Californian Pacific coast. Kungliga Svenska Vetensk-Akademiens Handlingar, Fjarde Serien. Almquist & Wiksell, Stockholm. 10(2):1-560, figs. 1-303, pls. 1-6.
additional source	Nicholls, A.G. (1939). Marine harpacticoids and cyclopoids from the shores of the St. Lawrence. Le Naturaliste Canadien, Quebec. 66(2):241-316, 28 figs.
source of synonymy	Willen, E. (2002). Notes on the systematic position of the Stenheliinae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) within the Thalestridimorpha and description of two new species from Motupore Island, Papua New Guinea. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 43(1): 27-42.
taxonomy source	Mu, F.H. & R. Huys. (2002). New species of Stenhelia (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Diosaccidae) from the Bohai Sea (China) with notes on subgeneric division and phylogenetic relationships. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 43 (2): 179-206.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Stenhelia Boeck, 1865. 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:115327

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Stenhelia Boeck, 1865. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/fe352ad9-3eef-4c45-8cf0-d3335bb15130