Metacyclops

{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}

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| image = Metacyclops brancelji (10.5852-ejt.2021.787.1621) Figure 10.png

| image_caption = Metacyclops brancelji

| taxon = Metacyclops

| authority = Kiefer, 1927

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Metacyclops is a genus of copepod crustaceans in the family Cyclopidae containing 61 species,{{cite web |author=T. Chad Walter |year=2018 |title=Metacyclops Kiefer, 1927 |editor=T. C. Walter & G. Boxshall |work=World Copepoda database |publisher=World Register of Marine Species |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=347484 |access-date=June 19, 2018}} of which three are listed on the IUCN Red ListM. campestris from Brazil (conservation dependent),{{cite iucn |author=Reid, J.W. |date=1996 |title=Metacyclops campestris |volume=1996 |page=e.T13258A3432129 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T13258A3432129.en |access-date=12 November 2021}} M. gasparoi from Italy (vulnerable),{{Cite iucn | author = B. Sket | title = Metacyclops gasparoi | volume = 1996 | page = e.T13259A3432159 | date = 1996 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T13259A3432159.en | access-date = 8 January 2018}} and M. postojnae from Slovenia (vulnerable).{{Cite iucn | author = B. Sket | title = Metacyclops postojnae | volume = 1996 | page = e.T13260A3432190 | date = 1996 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T13260A3432190.en | access-date = 8 January 2018}}

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Category:Cyclopidae

Category:Cyclopoida genera

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