Thermomesochra

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Thermomesochra reducta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Subclass: Copepoda
Order: Harpacticoida
Family: Canthocamptidae
Genus: Thermomesochra
Itô & Burton, 1980
Species:
T. reducta
Binomial name
Thermomesochra reducta
Itô & Burton, 1980

Thermomesochra reducta is a species of copepod in the family Canthocamptidae, and the only species in the genus Thermomesochra. It is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List. [1]

T. reducta was described in 1980 from a hot spring at Dusun Tua, Selangor, Malaysia, [2] where it lives at temperatures of 38–58 °C (100–136 °F). [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Reid, J.W. (1996). "Thermomesochra reducta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996: e.T21735A9315224. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T21735A9315224.en . Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. T. Itô & J. J. S. Burton (1980). "A new genus and species of the family Canthocamptidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from a hot spring at Dusun Tua, Selangor, Malaysia". Zoologische Jahrbücher (Systematik). 107: 1–31.
  3. Janet W. Reid (2001). "A human challenge: discovering and understanding continental copepod habitats". In Rubens M. Lopes; Janet Warner Reid; Carlos Eduardo Falavigna da Rocha (eds.). Copepoda: developments in ecology, biology, and systematics : proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Copepoda, held in Curitiba, Brazil, 25-31 July 1999. Volume 156 of Developments in Hydrobiology. Springer. pp. 201–226. ISBN   978-0-7923-7048-2.