Copepod phylogenomics supports Canuelloida as a valid order separate from Harpacticoida

2025/02/20 by James P. Bernot, Sahar Khodami, Jens Boyen +3 · 1 voice · 3 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Biology #Cephalopods and Marine Biology #Copepod #Ecology #Evolutionary biology #Harpacticoida #Marine Biology and Ecology Research #Marine Ecology and Invasive Species #Order (exchange) #Phylogenetics #Phylogenomics #Taxonomy (biology)

paper · doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2025.108311

openalex publication_date 2025/02/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Citations

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• A new genus of Orthopsyllidae Huys, 1990 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from the Pacific Ocean. [europepmc]
• Three new species of the family Canuellidae Lang, 1944 (Copepoda, Canuelloida) from the Western Pacific Ocean. [europepmc]

Discussions

• Excited to share our recent paper, which is one of the first phylogenomic analyses of copepods 🧪 TLDR: the order Harpacticoida should be split, with 2 families forming their own new order—Canuelloid [bsky, 97 points, 2 comments]