Thermomesochra

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]

Thermomesochra
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Hexanauplia
Subclass:	Copepoda
Order:	Harpacticoida
Family:	Canthocamptidae
Genus:	Thermomesochra Itô & Burton, 1980
Species:	T. reducta
Binomial name
Thermomesochra reducta Itô & Burton, 1980

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

1. J. W. Reid (1996). "Thermomesochra reducta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T21735A9315224. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T21735A9315224.en. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
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.