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Aglaodiaptomus

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Aglaodiaptomus is a genus of copepods in the family Diaptomidae. They are often bright red or blue due to carotenoid pigments.^[1]

Species distributions are known very imprecisely, and two species are listed as vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List (marked VU below); both are endemic to the United States. A. kingsburyae was described from "a roadside ditch in Oklahoma and a pool and a pond in Texas", while A. marshianus was described from Lake Jackson, Florida.^[2]

The genus Aglaodiaptomus contains 15 species.^[3]

^ Barbara E. Taylor; Douglas A. Leeper; Morgan A. Mcclure; Adrienne E. DeBiase (1999). "Carolina bays: ecology of aquatic invertebrates and perspectives on conservation". In Darold P. Batzer; Russell Ben Rader; Scott A. Wissinger (eds.). Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America: Ecology and Management. John Wiley and Sons. pp. 167–196. ISBN 978-0-471-29258-6.
^ Janet W. Reid; Ian A. E. Bayly; Giuseppe L. Pesce; Nancy A. Rayner; Y. Ranja Reddy; Carlos E. F. Rocha; Eduardo Suárez-Morales; Hiroshi Ueda (2002). "Conservation of continental copepod crustaceans". In Elva Escobar-Briones; Fernando Alvarez (eds.). Modern approaches to the study of Crustacea. Springer. pp. 253–261. ISBN 978-0-306-47366-1.
^ T. Chad Walter (2009). T. C. Walter; G. Boxshall (eds.). "Aglaodiaptomus Light, 1938". World Copepoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved April 14, 2010.
^ J. W. Reid (1996). "Aglaodiaptomus kingsburyae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T693A13067773. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T693A13067773.en. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
^ J. W. Reid (1996). "Aglaodiaptomus marshianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T694A13067804. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T694A13067804.en. Retrieved 6 January 2018.