WoRMS taxon details
Caligus spinosus Yamaguti, 1939
349752 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:349752)
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marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Yamaguti, S. (1939). Parasitic copepods from fishes of Japan. Part 5. Caligoida, III. <em>Volume Jubilare for Prof. Sadao Yoshida.</em> 2:443-487, pls. 14-33. (iii.1939). [details] Available for editors 
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Taxonomic remark Both Fernandez & Villalba (1986) and Lin & Ho (2007) considered C. spinosus to be a junior synonym of C. aesopus. This...
Taxonomic remark Both Fernandez & Villalba (1986) and Lin & Ho (2007) considered C. spinosus to be a junior synonym of C. aesopus. This confusion was resolved when Choe & Kim (2010) redescribed and compared the two species, concluding that both are valid. [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2024). World of Copepods Database. Caligus spinosus Yamaguti, 1939. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=349752 on 2024-04-16
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Yamaguti, S. (1939). Parasitic copepods from fishes of Japan. Part 5. Caligoida, III. <em>Volume Jubilare for Prof. Sadao Yoshida.</em> 2:443-487, pls. 14-33. (iii.1939). [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Walter, T. Chad. The World of Copepods. International online database. , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda [details]
additional source Pillai, N.K. (1963). Copepods parasitic on South Indian fishes: Family Caligidae. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India 5(1):68-96, figs. 1-16. (xii-1963) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Izawa, K. (1969). Life history of Caligus spinosus Yamaguti, 1939, obtained from cultured yellowtail, Seriola quinqueradiata T. & S. (Crustacea, Caligoida). Reports of the Faculty of Fisheries, Prefectural University of Mie 6(3):127-157, figs. 1-20, tabs. 1-2. (20-xii-1969) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ramakrishnan, P. (1980). Revision of the Caligidae (Copepoda) with special reference to the Indian fauna. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Kerala 400pp. + 15 plates. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Yamaguti, S. & T. Yamasu. (1960). New parasitic copepods from Japanese fishes. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 8(1):141-152, pls. 10-12. (30-v-1960) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kim, I.H. (2008). Invertebrate fauna of Korea. Arthropoda: Crustacea: Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Calgidae, Sea Lice. <em>National Institute of Biological Resources, Inchon, South Korea.</em> 21(1):75 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription Choe, M.K. & I.H. Kim. (2010). Redescriptions of two morphologically confusing sea lice Caligus aesopus Wilson, 1921 and C. spinosus Yamaguti, 1939 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Caligidae) parasitic on amberjacks (Seriola spp.) from Korea. Zootaxa 2483:23-34. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request] basis of record Walter, T. Chad. The World of Copepods. International online database. , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda [details]
additional source Pillai, N.K. (1963). Copepods parasitic on South Indian fishes: Family Caligidae. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India 5(1):68-96, figs. 1-16. (xii-1963) [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Izawa, K. (1969). Life history of Caligus spinosus Yamaguti, 1939, obtained from cultured yellowtail, Seriola quinqueradiata T. & S. (Crustacea, Caligoida). Reports of the Faculty of Fisheries, Prefectural University of Mie 6(3):127-157, figs. 1-20, tabs. 1-2. (20-xii-1969) [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Ramakrishnan, P. (1980). Revision of the Caligidae (Copepoda) with special reference to the Indian fauna. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Kerala 400pp. + 15 plates. [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Yamaguti, S. & T. Yamasu. (1960). New parasitic copepods from Japanese fishes. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 8(1):141-152, pls. 10-12. (30-v-1960) [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Kim, I.H. (2008). Invertebrate fauna of Korea. Arthropoda: Crustacea: Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Calgidae, Sea Lice. <em>National Institute of Biological Resources, Inchon, South Korea.</em> 21(1):75 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request] redescription Choe, M.K. & I.H. Kim. (2010). Redescriptions of two morphologically confusing sea lice Caligus aesopus Wilson, 1921 and C. spinosus Yamaguti, 1939 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Caligidae) parasitic on amberjacks (Seriola spp.) from Korea. Zootaxa 2483:23-34. [details] Available for editors
[request] From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark Both Fernandez & Villalba (1986) and Lin & Ho (2007) considered C. spinosus to be a junior synonym of C. aesopus. This confusion was resolved when Choe & Kim (2010) redescribed and compared the two species, concluding that both are valid. [details]
