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Genus of crustaceans

Thermomesochra reducta
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: 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.

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

References

  1. ^ 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.
Taxon identifiers
Thermomesochra reducta


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