Thermomesochra Explained

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.

T. reducta was described in 1980 from a hot spring at Dusun Tua, Selangor, Malaysia,^[1] where it lives at temperatures of 38C58C.^[2]

Notes and References

1. T. Itô . J. J. S. Burton . amp . 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.
2. Book: Rubens M. Lopes . Janet Warner Reid . Carlos Eduardo Falavigna da Rocha . 2001 . 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 . . 978-0-7923-7048-2 . A human challenge: discovering and understanding continental copepod habitats . Janet W. Reid . 201–226 . https://books.google.com/books?id=HI_dL9B2eWgC&pg=PA211.