Muscocyclops

{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Muscocyclops

| authority = Kiefer, 1937

}}

Muscocyclops is a genus of copepod crustaceans in the family Cyclopidae, comprising three species{{cite web |author=T. Chad Walter |year=2010 |title=Muscocyclops Kiefer, 1937 |editor=T. C. Walter |editor2=G. Boxshall |work=World Copepoda database |publisher=World Register of Marine Species |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=347537 |access-date=October 17, 2010}} found only in South America.{{cite journal |author=W. M. Silva |year=2008 |title=Diversity and distribution of the free-living freshwater Cyclopoida (Copepoda: Crustacea) in the Neotropics |journal=Brazilian Journal of Biology |volume=68 |issue=4 |pages=1099–1106 |url=http://www.scielo.br/pdf/bjb/v68n4s0/a16v684s.pdf |pmid=19197479 |doi=10.1590/S1519-69842008000500016|doi-access=free }} Two of the species – Muscocyclops bidentatus and Muscocyclops therasiae – are endemic to the Distrito Federal in Brazil, and are listed as conservation dependent on the IUCN Red List.{{cite iucn |author=Reid, J.W. |date=1996 |title=Muscocyclops bidenatus |volume=1996 |page=e.T14001A4380748 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T14001A4380748.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}{{cite iucn |author=Reid, J.W. |date=1996 |title=Muscocyclops therasiae |volume=1996 |page=e.T14002A4380789 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T14002A4380789.en |access-date=11 November 2021}} The third species is Muscocyclops operculatus.