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

Emertonia Wilson C.B., 1932

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Kliopsyllus*	Apostolov & Marinov, 1988	synonym

Children

Emertonia atlantica (Kunz, 1983)
Emertonia coelebs (Monard, 1935)
Emertonia constricta (Nicholls, 1935)
Emertonia holsatica (Klie, 1929)
Emertonia laurentica (Nicholls, 1939)
Emertonia longifurcata (Scheibel, 1975)
Emertonia longisetosa (Krishnaswamy, 1951)
Emertonia major (Nicholls, 1939)
Emertonia masryi (Bodin, 1979)
Emertonia miguelensis (Kunz, 1983)
Emertonia paraholsatica (Mielke, 1975)
Emertonia perharidiensis (Wells, 1963)
Emertonia pontica (Şerban, 1959)
Emertonia pygmaea (Nicholls, 1939)

Literature

original description	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	Huys, R. (2009). Unresolved cases of type fixation, synonymy and homonymy in harpacticoid copepod nomenclature (Crustacea: Copepoda). Zootaxa. 2183:1-99.
identification resource	Mathiske, A., D. Thistle, H. Gheerardyn & G. Veit-Köhler. (2021). Deep sea without limits—four new closely related species of Emertonia Wilson, 1932 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Paramesochridae) show characters with a world-wide distribution. In: Huys, R. (ed.). Systematics and Taxonomy of Harpacticoid Copepods—A Commemorative Volume in Honour of Prof. John B.J. Wells, Zootaxa, 569 pp. 5051(1): 443-486.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Emertonia Wilson C.B., 1932. 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:347109