Aglaodiaptomus

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

Conservation status
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.

Species
The genus Aglaodiaptomus contains 15 species.


 * Aglaodiaptomus atomicus DeBiase & Taylor, 1997
 * Aglaodiaptomus clavipes (Schacht, 1897)
 * Aglaodiaptomus clavipoides M. S. Wilson, 1955
 * Aglaodiaptomus conipedatus (Marsh, 1907)
 * Aglaodiaptomus dilobatus M. S. Wilson, 1958
 * Aglaodiaptomus forbesi Light, 1938
 * Aglaodiaptomus kingsburyae A. Robertson, 1975 Status iucn VU icon.svg
 * Aglaodiaptomus leptopus (S. A. Forbes, 1882)
 * Aglaodiaptomus lintoni (S. A. Forbes, 1893)
 * Aglaodiaptomus marshianus M. S. Wilson, 1953 Status iucn VU icon.svg
 * Aglaodiaptomus pseudosanguineus (Turner, 1921)
 * Aglaodiaptomus saskatchewanensis M. S. Wilson, 1958
 * Aglaodiaptomus savagei DeBiase & Taylor, 2000
 * Aglaodiaptomus spatulocrenatus (Pearse, 1906)
 * Aglaodiaptomus stagnalis (S. A. Forbes, 1882)