WoRMS taxon details
Urocopia Sars G.O., 1917
348162 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:348162)
accepted
Genus
Urocopia singularis Sars G.O., 1917 (type by original designation)
Sapphoncaea Minoda, 1971 · unaccepted (synonym)
Sinoculosapphirina Boxshall, 1981 · unaccepted (synonym)
- Species Urocopia deeveyae (Boxshall, 1981)
- Species Urocopia moria (Olson, 1949)
- Species Urocopia singularis Sars G.O., 1917
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Sars, G.O. (1917). Urocopia singularis G.O. Sars, a peculiar semiparasitic copepod from great deeps of the North Atlantic Ocean. <em>Aarbok Bergens Museums.</em> 1916-1917(4): 1-11, pl. 1. [details] 
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Urocopia Sars G.O., 1917. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=348162 on 2025-07-08
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Nomenclature
original description
Sars, G.O. (1917). Urocopia singularis G.O. Sars, a peculiar semiparasitic copepod from great deeps of the North Atlantic Ocean. <em>Aarbok Bergens Museums.</em> 1916-1917(4): 1-11, pl. 1. [details]
original description (of Sapphoncaea Minoda, 1971) Minoda, T. (1971). Pelagic Copepoda in the Bering Sea and the northwestern North Pacific with special reference to their vertical distribution. Memoirs of the Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University 18(1-2):1-74, figs. 1-33, pls. 1-5, appendix 1-5. (ix-1971) [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Sinoculosapphirina Boxshall, 1981) Boxshall, G.A. (1981). Sinoculosapphirina deeveyae, a new bathypelagic genus and species of the family Sapphirinidae (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida) from the Sargasso Sea off Bermuda. Bulletin of Marine Science 31(2):307-311, figs. 1-2. (3-vi-1981) [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Sapphoncaea Minoda, 1971) Minoda, T. (1971). Pelagic Copepoda in the Bering Sea and the northwestern North Pacific with special reference to their vertical distribution. Memoirs of the Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University 18(1-2):1-74, figs. 1-33, pls. 1-5, appendix 1-5. (ix-1971) [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Sinoculosapphirina Boxshall, 1981) Boxshall, G.A. (1981). Sinoculosapphirina deeveyae, a new bathypelagic genus and species of the family Sapphirinidae (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida) from the Sargasso Sea off Bermuda. Bulletin of Marine Science 31(2):307-311, figs. 1-2. (3-vi-1981) [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
