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

Ameira parvula (Claus, 1866)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ameira*	Boeck, 1865	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Nitokra tau*	Giesbrecht, 1881	orthographic variant; alternate representation
*Ameira parvula parvula*	(Claus, 1866)	synonym
*Canthocamptus parvulus*	Claus, 1866	synonym
*Nitocra tau*	Giesbrecht, 1881	synonym

Children

Ameira parvula f. tenuiseta Willey, 1929

Literature

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	Chang, C.Y. (2009). Illustrated encyclopedia of fauna & flora of Korea. Vol. 42. Inland-water Copepoda. Jeonghaeng-sa, Ministry of Education, Seoul, South Korea. 42:1-687.
additional source	Apostolov, A. & I. Pandourski. (1999). Marine harpacticoids (Crustacea: Copepoda) from the littoral of the Livingston Island (the Antarctic). Bulgarian Antarctic Research, Life Sciences, Pensof Publishers Sofia. 2:68-82.
additional source	Vervoort, W. (1964). Free-living Copepoda from Ifaluk Atoll in the Caroline Islands with notes on related species. Bulletin. United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution: Washington, DC (USA). 236: 1-431.
additional source	Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.).
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.
additional source	Kornev, P.N. & E.C. Chertoprud. (2008). Copepod Crustaceans of the Order Harpactiocida of the White Sea. Morphology, Systematics, Ecoloy. 379 pp. Biology Faculty, Moscow State University. Tovarishchestvo Nauchmikh Izdanii, KMK, Moscow, 370pp. ISBN 978-5-87317-410-2 (In Russian).
additional source	Petkovski, T.K. (1964). Zur Kenntnis der Harpacticiden Portugals (Crustacea, Copepoda). [On the knowledge of the harpacticids of Portugal (Crustacea, Copepoda).]. Acta Universitatis Lundensis. Avd 2, 59(14): -22, figs. 1-50. (18-vi-1964).
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	Klie, W. (1950). Harpacticoida (Cop.) aus dem Bereich von Helgoland und der Kieler Bucht. (Fortsetzung). [Harpacticoida (Cop.) from the coast of Helgoland and the Killarney Bay (Fortsetzung).]. Kieler Meeresforschungen. 7(1):76-128, figs. 53-160.
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	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	Vervoort, W. (1962). Report on some Copepoda collected during the Melanesia Expedition of the Osaka Museum of Natural History. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 10(2):393-470, figs. 1-32. (31-xii-1962)
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	Mielke, W. (1974). Eulitorale Harpacticoidea (Copepoda) von Spitzbergen. [Eulitoral Harpacticoids (Copepoda) from Spitsbergen.]. Mikrofauna Meeresbodens, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse. 37:1-52, figs. 1-28. (16-viii-1974). (Also in: Abh. mat.-nat. Kl. Akad. Wiss. Mainz, 1974).
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	Willey, A. (1935). Harpacticoid Copepoda from Bermuda.—Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 15(85): 50-100.
additional source	Monard, A. (1935). Les Harpacticoides marins de la region de Salammbo. Bulletin de la Station Oceanographique Salammbo. 34: 1-94, figs. 1-145.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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	Suárez-Morales, E., J.W. Fleeger & P.A. Montagna. (2009). Free-living Copepoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. In: Felder, D. L. & D.K. Camp [Eds]. Gulf of Mexico: origin, waters, and biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, 1393 pp. Chapter pagination: 841-869.
additional source	Kunz, H. (1975). Copepoda Harpacticoida aus dem Litoral des südlichen Afrika. I. Teil. [Copepoda Harpacticoida from the littoral of southern Africa. Part I.]. Kieler Meeresforschungen. 31(2):179-212, figs. 1-294, pls. 1-30, tabs. 1-7.
additional source	Vasconcelos, D.M. (2003). Distribuição espacial da comunidade da meiofauna e diversidade de Copepoda Harpacticoida no estuário do Rio Formoso, Pernambuco. [Spatial distribution of the meiofauna community and diversity of Copepoda Harpacticoida in the estuary of the Formoso River, Pernambuco.]. Dissertação de Mestrado, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. 64 pp. [In Portuguese.].
additional source	Wells, J.B.J. & G. Chandrasekhara Rao. (1987). Littoral Harpacticoida (Crustacea: Copepoda) from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 16(4):1-385.
redescription	Yildiz, N. O. & S. Karaytug. (2024). Disentangling of an Ameira parvula (Claus, 1866) species complex with the description of a new species and remarks on the genus Ameira Boeck, 1865 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Ameiridae). Biharean Biologist. 18 (1): 19-50.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Ameira parvula (Claus, 1866). 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:115521