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

Harpacticus gracilis Claus, 1863

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Harpacticus*	Milne Edwards H., 1840	accepted genus name
*Arpacticus*	Milne Edwards, 1840	synonym

Literature

original description	Claus, C. (1863). Die frei lebenden Copepoden mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Fauna Deutschlands, der Nordsee und des Mittelmeeres. [The free-living copepods with special consideration of the fauna of Germany, the North Sea and the Mediterranean.]. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig. 230 pp., pls. 1-37.
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	Pugliesi, E. (1914). Sullo sviluppo larvale di Harpacticus gracilis Cls. (serie copepodiforme). Atti dell'Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali (3)7:81-97, pl. 1.
additional source	Sewell, R.B.S. (1940). Copepoda, Harpacticoida. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition. 7(2):119-382, figs. 1-88, l chart. (9-iii-1940).
additional source	Brady, G.S. (1902). On Copepoda and other Crustacea taken in Ireland and on the North East Coast of England. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, new series. 14(1):54-68.
additional source	Monard, A. (1928). Les Harpacticoïdes marins de Banyuls. [The marine Harpacticoids of Banyuls.]. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale. 67(4):259-443, figs. 1-48. (20-vii-1928).
additional source	Krichagin, N.A. (1877). Otchet' ob' ekskursii na Sv. bereg' Chernago morya soverskennoi po pozucheniyu Kievskago obshchestva estestvois'pytatelei letom' 1874 g. [Report on an excursion to the Holy Coast of the Black Sea carried out at the request of the Kiev Society of Naturalists in the summer of 1874.]. Zapiski Kiyevskago Obshchestva Estestvoispytatelei (Mémoires de la Société des Naturalistes de Kiev). 5(1):1-56, pls. 1-4.
additional source	Pesta, O. (1932). Krebstiere oder Crustacea. I: Ruderfüsser oder Copepoda. 3. Unterordnung: Harpacticoida (1. und 2. Hälfte). [Crustaceans or Crustacea. I: Copepods. 3. Suborder: Harpacticoida (1st and 2nd half)]. In: Dahl, F. (ed.). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der Angrenzenden Meeresteile nach Ihren Merkmalen und nach Ihrer Lebensweise. Jena. 24:1-164, figs. 1-72, 1-92.
additional source	Mordukhai-Boltovskoy, F.D., ed. (1969). Rakoobraznye. (Crustacea). Opredetel' fauny Chernogo i Azovskogo more, 2. Svobodnozhivushchie bespozvonochnye. [Crustacea. Identification key to the fauna of the Black and Azov Seas, 2. Freeliving invertebrates.]. Institut Biologii Yuzh'nykh Morei, Akademiya Nauk USSR, Naukova Dumka, Kiev. 536 pp. (In Russian.).
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Apostolov, A. & T.M. Marinov. (1988). Copepoda Harpacticoida (morski kharpaktikoidi). Copepoda, Harpacticoida (marine harpacticoids). Fauna Bulgarica, Fauna Bolgarii. Izd. B'lg. Akad. Nauk, in Aedibus Academiae Scientiarum Bulgaricae, Sofia. Scient. Bulgaricae, Sofia. 18:1-384. (Bulgarian.).
additional source	Gurney, R. (1927). Zoological Results of the Cambridge Expedition to the Suez Canal, XXXIII: Report on the Crustacea - Copepoda (Littoral and Semi-Parasitic). Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 22(4):451-577, figs. 108-168, tab. 35. (xii-1927).
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Dussart, B.H. (1967). Les Copépodes des eaux continentales d'Europe occidentale. Tome I: Calanoïdes et Harpacticoïdes. [Copepods of the continental waters of Western Europe. Volume I: Calanoids and Harpacticoids.]. N. Boubée et Cie, Paris. 500 pp.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Monard, A. (1926). Sur les Harpacticus de Banyuls. [On the Harpacticus of Banyuls.]. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 51:4l9-434, figs. 1-43.
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.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Harpacticus gracilis Claus, 1863. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=116170

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Harpacticus gracilis Claus, 1863. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/9782efc6-7110-419b-a6d9-c75476f535eb