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Research Project: Ecology and Control of Insect Vectors

Location: Arthropod-borne Animal Diseases Research

Title: Checklist of copepods (Crustacea: Calanoida, Cyclopoida,Harpacticoida) from Wyoming, USA, with new state records

Author
item REEVES, WILL - Former ARS Employee

Submitted to: Check List
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 9/5/2015
Publication Date: 10/8/2015
Citation: Reeves, W.K. 2015. Checklist of copepods (Crustacea: Calanoida, Cyclopoida,Harpacticoida) from Wyoming, USA, with new state records. Check List. 11(5):1764. doi:10.15560/11.5.1764.

Interpretive Summary: This checklist is the first comprehensive list of copepods for Wyoming and can be used for future studies and baseline biodiversity data.

Technical Abstract: Presentation of a comprehensive checklist of the copepod fauna of Wyoming, USA with 41 species of copepods; based on museum specimens, literature reviews, and active surveillance. Of these species 19 were previously unknown from the state. This checklist includes species in the families Centropagidae, Cyclopidae, Diaptomidae, Ergasilidae, Laophontidae, Lernaeopodidae, and Lernaeidae.