WoRMS taxon details
Lepeophtheirus acutus Heegaard, 1943
352707 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:352707)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Heegaard, P.E. (1943). Some new caligids from the Gilbert Islands. Arkiv för Zoologi (A)34(16):1-12, figs. 1-3. (17-v-1943) [details] Available for editors 
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Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Lepeophtheirus acutus Heegaard, 1943. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=352707 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Heegaard, P.E. (1943). Some new caligids from the Gilbert Islands. Arkiv för Zoologi (A)34(16):1-12, figs. 1-3. (17-v-1943) [details] Available for editors [request]
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redescription
Boxshall, G.A. (2018). The sea lice (Copepoda: Caligidae) of Moreton Bay (Queensland, Australia), with descriptions of thirteen new species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4398(1): 1-172., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4398.1.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription Tang, D., B.A. Venmathi Maran Y. Matsumoto & K. Nagasawa. (2013). Redescription of Lepeophtheirus acutus Heegaard, 1943 (Copepoda: Caligidae) parasitic on two elasmobranch hosts off Okinawa-jima Island, Japan. <em>In: Suárez-Morales, E., J.W. Reid, G.A. Boxshall, J.S. Hwang & R. Huys (eds.). Selected papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Copepoda (Mérida, Mexico, 10–15 July 2011), Journal of Natural History.</em> 47(5-12):581-596. (published online 2012)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2012.738832 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]redescription Tang, D., B.A. Venmathi Maran Y. Matsumoto & K. Nagasawa. (2013). Redescription of Lepeophtheirus acutus Heegaard, 1943 (Copepoda: Caligidae) parasitic on two elasmobranch hosts off Okinawa-jima Island, Japan. <em>In: Suárez-Morales, E., J.W. Reid, G.A. Boxshall, J.S. Hwang & R. Huys (eds.). Selected papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Copepoda (Mérida, Mexico, 10–15 July 2011), Journal of Natural History.</em> 47(5-12):581-596. (published online 2012)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2012.738832 [details] Available for editors
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ecology source
Brun, P., M.R. Payne & T. Kiørboe. (2017). A trait database for marine copepods. <em>Earth System Science Data.</em> 9(1):99-113., available online at https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-99-2017 [details] Available for editors [request]
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additional source
Özak, A.A., A. Yanar, Y. Sakarya & G.A. Boxshall. (2018). The discovery of Lepeophtheirus acutus Heegaard, 1943 (Copepoda: Caligidae) from two new elasmobranch hosts in the Mediterranean Sea, and a comparative redescription of Lepeophtheirus rhinobati Luque, Chaves et Cezar, 1998. <em>Acta Parasitologica.</em> 63(3):454-473., available online at https://doi.org/10.1515/ap-2018-0055 [details] Available for editors [request]
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