Bryocyclops

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Bryocyclops
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Bryocyclops muscicola
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Copepoda
Order: Cyclopoida
Family: Cyclopidae
Genus: Bryocyclops
Kiefer, 1927

Bryocyclops is a genus of freshwater-dwelling cyclopoid copepods. The prefix Bryo- for Bryophyta (Mosses) refers to the fact that the first few species were described from mosses. [1]

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Distribution

Species belonging to this genus are distributed in all major biogeographic realms except Antarctica, although there are only a handful of species from the Nearctic (B. muscicola) and Neotropical realm (B. campaneri and B. rochi) [2] [3] [4] . Researchers suspect that with increasing sampling efforts, more species will be discovered from these regions. Apart from continental habitats, some species occur on the oceanic islands of Guam, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa [5] and Christmas Island. In recent years, five new species have been described from caves in Thailand. [6]

Habitat

As its name suggests, the type species was found in damp mosses. [1] Apart from other microcrustaceans such as cladocerans, ostracods and harpacticoid copepods, only a few genera of cyclopoid copepods have managed to access semiterrestrial habitats like mosses, leaf litter, tree holes, leaf axils, bromeliads and other phytotelmata, or even man-made microhabitats (water-filled tin cans, car tires). [5] [7] These habitats pose serious challenges to fully aquatic organisms, especially since they rely on passive means of dispersal (phoresis [8] ). Species of the genus Bryocyclops also inhabit cave pools, groundwater and other freshwater bodies.

Species

This genus currently contains 26 valid species: [9]

References

  1. 1 2 Kiefer, Friedrich (1939). "Mission Scientifique de l'Omo. Tome V. Fascicule 56: Crustacea. IV. Copepoda : Diaptomidae, Cyclopidae". Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. 9 (1): 319–378.
  2. ↑ www.luciopesce.net http://www.luciopesce.net/copepods/bryoc.htm . Retrieved 2020-04-14.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ da Rocha, Carlos Eduardo Falavigna; de Carvalho Bjornber, Maria Helena Gonzaga (October 1987). "Copepods of the Juréia ecological reserve, state of São Paulo, Brazil. II. The genera Hesperocyclops, Muscocyclops, and Bryocyclops (Cyclopoida, Cyclopidae)". Hydrobiologia. 153 (2): 97–107. Bibcode:1987HyBio.153...97D. doi:10.1007/bf00006642. ISSN   0018-8158. S2CID   8262056.
  4. ↑ Gonzaga de Carvalho Bjornberg, Maria Helena (May 1985). "Bryocyclops caroli sp.n. (Crustacea, Copepoda, Cyclopoida), the first representative of the genus in South America". Hydrobiologia. 124 (3): 237–241. Bibcode:1985HyBio.124..237G. doi:10.1007/bf00015240. ISSN   0018-8158. S2CID   39777322.
  5. 1 2 Yeatman, Harry Clay (1983-12-01). "Copepods from microhabitats in Fiji, Western Samoa, and Tonga" (PDF). Micronesica: Journal of the University of Guam. 19: 19: 57–90.
  6. ↑ Watiroyram, Santi (2018-10-29). "Bryocyclops asetus sp. n. and the presence of Bryocyclops muscicola (Menzel, 1926) from Thailand (Crustacea, Copepoda, Cyclopoida, Cyclopidae)". ZooKeys (793): 29–51. Bibcode:2018ZooK..793...29W. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.793.25005 . ISSN   1313-2970. PMC   6218533 . PMID   30405309.
  7. ↑ Jocque, Merlijn; Fiers, Frank; Romero, Martín; Martens, Koen (2013-07-01). "Crustacea in Phytotelmata: A Global Overview". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 33 (4): 451–460. Bibcode:2013JCBio..33..451F. doi: 10.1163/1937240X-00002161 . ISSN   0278-0372.
  8. ↑ Sabagh, Leandro T.; Dias, Roberto Júnio P.; Branco, Christina W. C.; Rocha, Carlos F. D. (2011-04-28). "News records of phoresy and hyperphoresy among treefrogs, ostracods, and ciliates in bromeliad of Atlantic forest". Biodiversity and Conservation. 20 (8): 1837–1841. Bibcode:2011BiCon..20.1837S. doi:10.1007/s10531-011-0050-z. ISSN   0960-3115. S2CID   12658034.
  9. ↑ "The World of Copepods - Bryocyclops Kiefer, 1927". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
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