''Acanthodiaptomus'' is a genus of
Diaptomidae
Diaptomidae is a family of freshwater pelagic copepods. It includes around 50 genera:
*'' Acanthodiaptomus'' Kiefer, 1932
*'' Aglaodiaptomus'' Light, 1938
*'' Allodiaptomus'' Kiefer, 1936
*''Arctodiaptomus'' Kiefer, 1932
*'' Argyrodiaptomus'' Br ...
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The genus was described in 1932 by
Friedrich Kiefer Professor Friedrich Kiefer (9 September 1897 – 18 April 1985) was a German zoologist, specialising in freshwater copepods. For over 60 years, he was "the preeminent morphological taxonomist of continental free-living copepods".
Kiefer was born in ...
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The genus has
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and en ...
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Species include:
* ''
Acanthodiaptomus denticornis''
(Wierzejski, 1887)
* ''
Acanthodiaptomus pacificus''
(Burckhardt, 1913)
* ''
Acanthodiaptomus tibetanus''
(Daday, 1907)
References
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Cladocera