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Bryocyclops

{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}

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| image = Bryocyclops muscicola (10.3897-zookeys.793.25005) Figure 12 (cropped).jpg

| image_caption = Bryocyclops muscicola

| taxon = Bryocyclops

| authority = Kiefer, 1927

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Bryocyclops is a genus of freshwater-dwelling cyclopoid copepods. The epithet Bryo- for Bryophyta (Mosses) refers to the fact that the first few species were described from mosses.{{Cite journal|last=Kiefer|first=Friedrich|author-link=Friedrich Kiefer|date=1939|title=Mission Scientifique de l'Omo. Tome V. Fascicule 56: Crustacea. IV. Copepoda : Diaptomidae, Cyclopidae|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/291680|journal=Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.|volume=9|issue=1|pages=319–378}}

Distribution

Species belonging to this genus are distributed in all major biogeographic realms except Antarctica, although there are only a handful of species from the Nearctic (B. muscicola) and Neotropical realm (B. campaneri and B. rochi){{Cite web|url=http://www.luciopesce.net/copepods/bryoc.htm|website=www.luciopesce.net|access-date=2020-04-14}}{{Cite journal|last1=da Rocha|first1=Carlos Eduardo Falavigna|last2=de Carvalho Bjornber|first2=Maria Helena Gonzaga|date=October 1987|title=Copepods of the Juréia ecological reserve, state of São Paulo, Brazil. II. The genera Hesperocyclops, Muscocyclops, and Bryocyclops (Cyclopoida, Cyclopidae)|journal=Hydrobiologia|volume=153|issue=2|pages=97–107|doi=10.1007/bf00006642|s2cid=8262056|issn=0018-8158}}{{Cite journal|last=Gonzaga de Carvalho Bjornberg|first=Maria Helena|date=May 1985|title=Bryocyclops caroli sp.n. (Crustacea, Copepoda, Cyclopoida), the first representative of the genus in South America|journal=Hydrobiologia|volume=124|issue=3|pages=237–241|doi=10.1007/bf00015240|s2cid=39777322|issn=0018-8158}}. Researchers suspect that with increasing sampling efforts, more species will be discovered from these regions. Apart from continental habitats, some species occur on the oceanic islands of Guam, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa{{Cite journal|last=Yeatman|first=Harry Clay|date=1983-12-01|title=Copepods from microhabitats in Fiji, Western Samoa, and Tonga.|url=https://micronesica.org/sites/default/files/copepods_from_microhabitats_in_fiji_western_samoa_and_tonga_micronesica_vol._19_no._1-2_dec._1983-6.pdf|journal=Micronesica: Journal of the University of Guam.|volume=19|pages=19: 57–90}} and Christmas Island. In recent years, five new species have been described from caves in Thailand.{{Cite journal|last=Watiroyram|first=Santi|date=2018-10-29|title=Bryocyclops asetus sp. n. and the presence of Bryocyclops muscicola (Menzel, 1926) from Thailand (Crustacea, Copepoda, Cyclopoida, Cyclopidae)|url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/25005/|journal=ZooKeys|language=en|issue=793|pages=29–51|doi=10.3897/zookeys.793.25005|pmid=30405309|pmc=6218533|bibcode=2018ZooK..793...29W |issn=1313-2970|doi-access=free}}

Habitat

As its name suggests, the type species was found in damp mosses. Apart from other microcrustaceans such as cladocerans, ostracods and harpacticoid copepods, only a few genera of cyclopoid copepods have managed to access semiterrestrial habitats like mosses, leaf litter, tree holes, leaf axils, bromeliads and other phytotelmata, or even man-made microhabitats (water-filled tin cans, car tires).{{Cite journal|last1=Jocque|first1=Merlijn|last2=Fiers|first2=Frank|last3=Romero|first3=Martín|last4=Martens|first4=Koen|date=2013-07-01|title=Crustacea in Phytotelmata: A Global Overview|journal=Journal of Crustacean Biology|language=en|volume=33|issue=4|pages=451–460|doi=10.1163/1937240X-00002161|issn=0278-0372|doi-access=free}} These habitats pose serious challenges to fully aquatic organisms, especially since they rely on passive means of dispersal (phoresis{{Cite journal|last1=Sabagh|first1=Leandro T.|last2=Dias|first2=Roberto Júnio P.|last3=Branco|first3=Christina W. C.|last4=Rocha|first4=Carlos F. D.|date=2011-04-28|title=News records of phoresy and hyperphoresy among treefrogs, ostracods, and ciliates in bromeliad of Atlantic forest|journal=Biodiversity and Conservation|volume=20|issue=8|pages=1837–1841|doi=10.1007/s10531-011-0050-z|bibcode=2011BiCon..20.1837S |s2cid=12658034|issn=0960-3115}}). Species of the genus Bryocyclops also inhabit cave pools, groundwater and other freshwater bodies.

Species

This genus currently contains 26 valid species:{{Cite web|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=346880#attributes|title=The World of Copepods - Bryocyclops Kiefer, 1927|website=www.marinespecies.org|access-date=2020-04-14}}

  • Bryocyclops (Palaeocyclops) jankowskajae Monchenko, 1972
  • Bryocyclops absalomi Por, 1981
  • Bryocyclops africanus Kiefer, 1932
  • Bryocyclops ankaratranus Kiefer, 1954
  • Bryocyclops anninae (Menzel, 1926)
  • Bryocyclops apertus Kiefer, 1935
  • Bryocyclops asetus Watiroyram, 2018
  • Bryocyclops bogoriensis (Menzel, 1926)
  • Bryocyclops campaneri Rocha & Bjornberg, 1987
  • Bryocyclops caroli Bjornberg, 1985
  • Bryocyclops chappuisi Kiefer, 1928
  • Bryocyclops constrictus Lindberg, 1950
  • Bryocyclops correctus Kiefer, 1960
  • Bryocyclops difficilis Kiefer, 1935
  • Bryocyclops elachistus Kiefer, 1935
  • Bryocyclops fidjiensis Lindberg, 1954
  • Bryocyclops jankowskajae Monchenko, 1972
  • Bryocyclops maewaensis Watiroyram, Brancelj & Sanoamuang, 2012
  • Bryocyclops maholarnensis Watiroyram, Brancelj & Sanoamuang, 2015
  • Bryocyclops mandrakanus Kiefer, 1954
  • Bryocyclops muscicola (Menzel, 1926)
  • Bryocyclops muscicoloides Watiroyram, 2018
  • Bryocyclops parvulus Kiefer, 1928
  • Bryocyclops phyllopus Kiefer, 1935
  • Bryocyclops trangensis Watiroyram, 2018
  • Bryocyclops travancoricus Lindberg, 1947

Gallery

File:Bryocyclops asetus (10.3897-zookeys.793.25005) Figure 2.jpg|alt=Bryocyclops asetus female|Bryocyclops asetus female

File:Bryocyclops asetus (10.3897-zookeys.793.25005) Figure 6.jpg|alt=Bryocyclops asetus male|Bryocyclops asetus male

File:Bryocyclops asetus (10.3897-zookeys.793.25005) Figure 3.jpg|alt=Bryocyclops asetus female|Bryocyclops asetus female

File:Bryocyclops asetus (10.3897-zookeys.793.25005) Figure 7.jpg|alt=Bryocyclops asetus male|Bryocyclops asetus male

File:Bryocyclops asetus (10.3897-zookeys.793.25005) Figure 12 (cropped).jpg|alt=Bryocyclops asetus female|Bryocyclops asetus female with egg clutches

File:Bryocyclops muscicola (10.3897-zookeys.793.25005) Figure 9.jpg|alt=Bryocyclops muscicola female|Bryocyclops muscicola female

File:Bryocyclops muscicola (10.3897-zookeys.793.25005) Figure 10.jpg|alt="Bryocyclops muscicola" male|Bryocyclops muscicola male

File:Bryocyclops muscicola (10.3897-zookeys.793.25005) Figure 11.jpg|alt=Bryocyclops muscicola female|Bryocyclops muscicola female

References

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Category:Cyclopidae

Category:Cyclopoida genera