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Marine Planktonic Copepods
Taxonomy
   Order Cyclopoida
Family
Clausidiidae Embleton, 1901 ( Cyclopoida )
Syn.:  
Hersiliidae Canu,1888
Ref.:  
Sars, 1917 (1918) (p.144); Nicholls, 1944 (p.45); Vervoort & Ramirez, 1966 (p.195, Rem.); Kabata, 1979 (p.51); Razouls, 1982 (p.718); Bowman & Abele, 1982 (p.11); Huys & Boxshall, 1991 (p.285, 411-12, 421); Razouls,1993 (p.312); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.482: Def.; Rem. p.1: ces auteurs mettent en cause l'existence de l'ordre des Poecilostomatoida))
Rem.:  
Various genera (of which Hemicyclops), have juvenile forms reported accidentally and temporarily in the plankton, denominated Saphirella.

Genus
(1) Saphirella T. Scott, 1894Species, varieties and details
Ref.:  
T. Scott, 1894 b (p.126); Sewell, 1924 (p.799); Wilson, 1932 a (p.597); Farran, 1936 a (p.140); Nicholls, 1944 (p.45, 49, Rem.); Gurney, 1944 (p.825, Rem.); Krishnaswamy, 1952 (p.335, Rem.); Vilela, 1965 (p.12); Owre & Foyo, 1967 (p.109); Björnberg, 1972 (p.93); Marques, 1982 (p.770); Razouls, 1982 (p.718); Gooding, 1988 (p.363, Rem.); Itoh & Nishida, 1991 (p.397, figs., clé des 8 types Bay of Tokyo); Kim & Ho, 1992 (p.631, 645, Rem.); Itoh & Nishida, 1995 (p.134, 153, Rem.); Chihara & Murano, 1997 (p.1000, Rem.); Boxshall & Halsey, 2004 (p.483: Rem.)
Ref.:  
16 juvenile forms.