Nitocrella is a genus of copepods. Although most other genera in the family Ameiridae are marine, species of Nitocrella are almost exclusively found in subterranean fresh water or brackish water. More than 80 species are included in the genus, including two which are listed as vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List:
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Nitocrella is a genus of copepods. Although most other genera in the family Ameiridae are marine, species of Nitocrella are almost exclusively found in subterranean fresh water or brackish water. More than 80 species are included in the genus, including two which are listed as vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List: Nitocrella absentia Karanovic, 2004 Nitocrella achaiae Pesce, 1981 Nitocrella aestuarina Coull & Bell, 1979 Nitocrella afghanica Sterba, 1973 Nitocrella africana Chappuis, 1955 Nitocrella akiereki Borutsky, 1978 Nitocrella asiatica (Sterba, 1967) Nitocrella beatricis Cottarelli & Bruno, 1993 Nitocrella botosaneanui Petkovski, 1973 Nitocrella calcaripes Damian & Botosaneanu, 1954 Nitocrella caraioni Petkovski, 1976 Nitocrella chappuisi Kiefer, 1926 Nitocrella cubanorum Petkovski, 1976 Nitocrella delayi Rouch, 1970 Nitocrella divaricata (Chappuis, 1923) Nitocrella dubia Chappuis, 1937 Nitocrella dussarti Chappuis & Rouch, 1959 Nitocrella elegans Chappuis & Rouch, 1959 Nitocrella ensifera Cottarelli, Bruno & Berera, 2007 Nitocrella fedelitae Pesce, 1985 Nitocrella gracilis Chappuis, 1955 Nitocrella halophila Noodt, 1952 Nitocrella herirudensis Sterba, 1973 Nitocrella hibernica (Brady, 1880) Nitocrella hirta Chappuis, 1923 Nitocrella hofmilleri Brehm, 1953 Nitocrella hypogaea Shen & Tai, 1973 Nitocrella incerta (Chappuis, 1933) Nitocrella insularis Miura, 1962 Nitocrella intermedia Chappuis, 1937 Nitocrella ioneli Dumont & Decraemer, 1974 Nitocrella iranica Löffler, 1959 Nitocrella jankowskajae Borutsky, 1972 Nitocrella japonica Miura, 1962 Nitocrella juturna Cottarelli, 1975 Nitocrella kirgizica Borutsky, 1972 Nitocrella kosswigi Noodt, 1954 Nitocrella kunzi Galassi & De Laurentiis, 1997 Nitocrella kyzylkumica Borutsky, 1972 Nitocrella ljovuschkini Borutsky, 1967 Nitocrella longa Karanovic, 2000 Nitocrella maggii Pesce, 1983 Nitocrella mara Löffler, 1959 Nitocrella marina Chappuis & Rouch, 1961 Nitocrella minoricae Chappuis & Rouch, 1959 Nitocrella monchenkoi Borutsky, 1972 Nitocrella montana Noodt, 1965 Nitocrella morettii Pesce, 1984 Nitocrella morimotoi Miura, 1962 Nitocrella motasi Petkovski, 1976 Nitocrella nana Sterba, 1973 Nitocrella negreai Petkovski, 1973 Nitocrella neutra Kiefer, 1933 Nitocrella obesa Karanovic, 2004 Nitocrella omega Hertzog, 1936 Nitocrella orghidani Petkovski, 1973 Nitocrella paceae Pesce, 1980 Nitocrella pescei Galassi & De Laurentiis, 1997 Nitocrella petkovskii Pesce, 1980 Nitocrella polychaeta Noodt, 1952 Nitocrella psammophila Chappuis, 1954 Nitocrella reducta Schäfer, 1936 Nitocrella rhodiensis Pesce, 1983 Nitocrella skyrensis Pesce, 1982 Nitocrella slovenica Petkovski, 1959 24px|VU (Slovenia) Nitocrella somalica Dumont, 1981 Nitocrella spinulosa Apostolov, 1991 Nitocrella stammeri Chappuis, 1938 Nitocrella sterbai Borutsky, 1969 Nitocrella stetinai Sterba, 1973 Nitocrella stochi Pesce & Galassi, 1987 24px|VU (Italy) Nitocrella stygia Apostolov, 1976 Nitocrella subterranea (Chappuis, 1928) Nitocrella tianschanica Borutsky, 1972 Nitocrella tirolensis Kiefer, 1963 Nitocrella tonsa Mikhailova-Neikova, 1967 Nitocrella trajani Karanovic, 2004 Nitocrella tridens Bozic, 1969 Nitocrella tschaticalica Borutsky, 1978 Nitocrella unispinosa Shen & Tai, 1973 Nitocrella vasconica Chappuis, 1937 Nitocrella yokotai Miura, 1962
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).