Tags: Crustacean.

Notodiaptomus is a genus of copepods in the family Diaptomidae. It is the most widely distributed most abundant and most species-rich genus of freshwater calanoid copepods in the Neotropics. The genus was erected in 1936 by Friedrich Kiefer for eleven species formerly placed in a wider Diaptomus. Notodiaptomus deitersi was chosen to be the type species by Raúl Adolfo Ringuelet in 1958.The genus Notodiaptomus includes 34 valid species and two species inquirenda.

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