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Thermomesochra

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Thermomesochra reducta
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.[1]

T. reducta was described in 1980 from a hot spring at Dusun Tua, Selangor, Malaysia,[2] where it lives at temperatures of 38–58 °C (100–136 °F).[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b 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.