Copepod

Revealing paraphyly and placement of extinct species within Epischura (Copepod, Calanoida) using molecular data and quantitative morphometrics

We provide the first taxonomically broad estimates of divergence times within Calanoida. The paraphyletic nature of the genus Epischura (and the family Temoridae) is apparent and requires the resurrection of the genus Epischurella (Smirnov, 1936) to describe the Siberian species.