Thermomesochra

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.^[1]

Thermomesochra reducta
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Copepoda
Order:	Harpacticoida
Family:	Canthocamptidae
Genus:	Thermomesochra Itô & Burton, 1980
Species:	T. reducta
Binomial name
Thermomesochra reducta Itô & Burton, 1980

T. reducta was described in 1980 from a hot spring at Dusun Tua, Selangor, Malaysia,^[2] where it lives at temperatures of 38–58 °C (100–136 °F).^[3]