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WoRMS taxon detailsLernaeocera branchialis (Linnaeus, 1767)
 135993 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135993)
accepted
Species
Lernaea brachialis Linnaeus, 1767 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Lernaea branchialis Linnaeus, 1767 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Lernaea branchialis sigmoidea Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Lernaea lumpi Scott T., 1901 · unaccepted (synonym)
Lernaeocera caparti Machado-Cruz, 1959 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Lernaeocera lumpi (Scott T., 1901) · unaccepted (synonym)
Lernaeocera megacephala Scott A., 1929 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Lernaeocera obtusa Kabata, 1957 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Lernaeocera wilsoni Schuurmans Stekhoven J.H. Jr, 1936 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Saucissona lumpi (Scott T., 1901) · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish,
(of Lernaea branchialis Linnaeus, 1767) Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Ed. 12. 1., Regnum Animale. 1 & 2. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature: according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places. Ed. 12. 1., Animal Kingdom. 1 & 2]. <em>Holmiae [Stockholm], Laurentii Salvii.</em> pp. 1-532 [1766] pp. 533-1327 [1767]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5 [details]
Distribution southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern...
Distribution southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), upper North Shore (between Sept- Iles and Pointe des Monts), middle North Shore (from Sept - Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Island), Lower North Shore, Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone) to the Northeast of Anticosti Island (=Jacques Cartier Strait), Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Esquiman Channel), lower Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone as far as Cabot Strait: Cape North, N.S., St. Paul Island to Cape Ray, NL.), western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland, and including the Southwest slope of NL [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Lernaeocera branchialis (Linnaeus, 1767). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135993 on 2025-04-26
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Lernaea brachialis Linnaeus, 1767) Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Ed. 12. 1., Regnum Animale. 1 & 2. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature: according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places. Ed. 12. 1., Animal Kingdom. 1 & 2]. <em>Holmiae [Stockholm], Laurentii Salvii.</em> pp. 1-532 [1766] pp. 533-1327 [1767]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5 [details] original description (of Lernaeocera megacephala Scott A., 1929) Scott, A. (1929). The copepod parasites of Irish Sea fishes. Proceedings and Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society 43:81-119, pls. 1-3. [details] Available for editors  [request]original description (of Lernaeocera obtusa Kabata, 1957) Kabata, Z. (1957). Lernaeocera obtusa n. sp., a hitherto undescribed parasite of the haddock (Gadus aeglefinus L.). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 36(3):569-592, figs. 1-6. (xi-1957) [details] Available for editors [request]original description (of Lernaea branchialis Linnaeus, 1767) Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Ed. 12. 1., Regnum Animale. 1 & 2. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature: according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places. Ed. 12. 1., Animal Kingdom. 1 & 2]. <em>Holmiae [Stockholm], Laurentii Salvii.</em> pp. 1-532 [1766] pp. 533-1327 [1767]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5 [details] original description (of Lernaea lumpi Scott T., 1901) Scott, T. (1901). Notes on some parasites of fishes. <em>Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland.</em> 19(3):120-153, pls. 7-8. [details] original description (of Lernaeocera caparti Machado-Cruz, 1959) Machado-Cruz, J.A. (1959). Lernaeocera caparti, sp. nov. Copépode parasite de Merluccius merluccius (Linné). [Lernaeocera caparti, sp. nov. Parasitic copepod of Merluccius merluccius (Linné).]. <em>Publicaçoes do Instituto de Zoologia 'Dr. Augusto Nobre,' Faculdade de Ciências do Porto.</em> 64:7-12. [details] Available for editors [request]original description (of Lernaeocera wilsoni Schuurmans Stekhoven J.H. Jr, 1936) Schuurmans Stekhoven, J.H. Jr. (1936). Beobachtungen zur Morphologie und Physiologie der Lernaeocera branchialis L. und Lernaeocera lusci Bassett-Smith (Crustacea parasitica). [Observations on the morphology and physiology of Lernaeocera branchialis L. and Lernaeocera lusci Bassett-Smith (Crustacea parasitica).]. <em>Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde.</em> 8(6):659-696, figs. 1-28. [details] Available for editors [request]original description (of Saucissona lumpi (Scott T., 1901)) Scott, T. (1901). Notes on some parasites of fishes. <em>Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland.</em> 19(3):120-153, pls. 7-8. [details] original description (of Lernaea branchialis sigmoidea Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861) Steenstrup, J.J.S. & C.F. Lütken. (1861). Bidrag til kundskab om det aabne havs snyltekrebs og lernæer samt om nogle andre nye eller hidtil kun ufuldstændigt kjendte parasitiske Copepoder. [Contribution to knowledge about the open sea parasitic crabs and mud crabs and about some other new or hitherto only incompletely known parasitic Copepods.]. <em>Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, Naturhistorisk og Mathematisk Afdeling, Kjöbenhavn.</em> (5)5: 343-432, pls. 1-15., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39308528 [details] basis of record Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 252-268 (look up in IMIS) [details] Taxonomyredescription
Anstensrud, M. (1989). A vital stain for studies of behaviour and ecology of the parasitic copepod Lernaeocera branchialis (Pennellidae). Marine Ecology Progress Series 53(1):47-50. [details] Available for editors [request]redescription Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. <em>The Ray Society, London.</em> 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203. [details] Available for editors [request]redescription Alekseev, V.R. (1989). Rol' fotoperrioda i drugikh faktorov vneshne' i sredy v induktsii diapauzy u tsiklopov vremennykh vodoemov na primere Metacyclops minutus (Claus). [Role of photoperiod and other environmental factors in diapause induction in small crustaceans of the desiccating ponds exemplified by Mesocyclops minutus (Claus).]. <em>Ekologiya, Sverdlovsk.</em> 1989(5):51-57. (In Russian; Translation in Soviet Journal of Ecology.). [details] Available for editors [request]Otheradditional source
Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details] additional source Wilson, C.B. (1917). North American parasitic copepods belonging to the Lernaeidae with a revision of the entire family. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 53(2194):1-150, pls. 1-21. (13-vi-1917). [details] additional source Sherman, K. & J.P. Wise. (1961). Incidence of the cod parasite Lernaeocera branchialis L. in the New England area, and its possible use as an indicator of cod populations. Limnology and Oceanography 6(1):61-67, figs. 1-2. (i-1961) [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Capart, A. (1947). Le Lernaeocera branchialis (Linné), Copépode parasite des Gadides. [Lernaeocera branchialis (Linnaeus), a parasitic copepod of Gadidae.]. <em>Journal du Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer.</em> 15(1):69-76, fig. 1. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Capart, A. (1948). Le Lernaeocera branchialis (Linne, 1767). Cellule 52(2):159-212, figs. 1-22, pls. 1-7. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Grant, H.J. & P.J. Whitfield. (1988). The ultrastructure of the spermatozoon of Lernaeocera branchialis (Copepoda: Pennellidae). <em>In: Boxshall, G.A. & H.K. Schminke (eds.). Biology of Copepods. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Copepoda. Developments in Hydrobiolology 47, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Hydrobiologia.</em> 47(167/168):607-616, figs. 1-7, tab. 1. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Kabata, Z. (1961). Lernaeocera branchialis (L.), a parasitic copepod from the European and the American shores of the Atlantic. Crustaceana, Leiden 2(3):243-249, figs. 1-5. (21-vi-1961) [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Kabata, Z. (1962). The mouth and mouth-parts of Lernaeocera branchialis (L.), a parasitic copepod. Crustaceana, Leiden 3(4):311-317, figs. 1-5. (15-iii-1962) [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Kabata, Z. (1963). The free-swimming stage of Lernaeenicus (Copepoda Parasitica). Crustaceana, Leiden 5(3):181-187, fig. 1. (22-v-1963) [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. <em>The Ray Society, London.</em> 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Khan, R.A. (1988). Experimental transmission, development, and effects of a parasitic copepod, Lernaeocera branchialis, on Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua. Journal of Parasitology 74(4):586-599. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Khan, R.A. & D. Lacey. (1986). Effect of concurrent infections of Lernaeocera branchialis (Copepoda) and Trypanosoma murmanensis (Protozoa) on Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 22(2):201-208. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Mann, H. (1953). Lernaeocera branchialis (Copepoda parasitica) und seine Schadwirkung bei einigen Gadiden. [Lernaeocera branchialis (Copepoda parasitica) and its damaging effects on some Gadids.]. <em>Archiv für Fischereiwissenschaft.</em> 4:133-144, tabs. 1-10. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Mann, H. (1964). Vorkommen, Verbreitung und Schadwirkung von Lernaeocera minuta T. Scott (Copepoda parasitica). [Occurrence, distribution and harmful effects of Lernaeocera minuta T. Scott (Copepoda parasitica).]. <em>Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Meeresforschung in Bremerhaven.</em> 9(1):79-83, fig. 1. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Mann, H. (1987). Parasitischer Krebs dringt bis zur Herz vor. [Parasitic cancer penetrates to the heart.]. <em>Fisch und Fang.</em> 4:94. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Rokicki, J. (1988). Anatomical and functional effects of the parasitic copepod Lernaeocera branchialis (L.) on Pollachius pollachius (L.) (Pisces: Gadidae). Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, Szczecin 18(2):73-79. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Schuurmans Stekhoven, J.H. Jr. (1936). De biologie van Lernaeocera branchialis. [The biology of Lernanocera brachialis.]. <em>Overgedrukt uit het Natuurwetenschappelijk Tijdschrift XXIX Vlaamsch Natuur-en Geneeskundig Congres. Gent 13-19 April 1936.</em> 18, Congres-nummer.:157-161. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Schuurmans Stekhoven, J.H. Jr. (1936). Beobachtungen zur Morphologie und Physiologie der Lernaeocera branchialis L. und Lernaeocera lusci Bassett-Smith (Crustacea parasitica). [Observations on the morphology and physiology of Lernaeocera branchialis L. and Lernaeocera lusci Bassett-Smith (Crustacea parasitica).]. <em>Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde.</em> 8(6):659-696, figs. 1-28. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Schuurmans Stekhoven, J.H. Jr. & A. Punt. (1937). Weitere Beiträge zur Morphologie und Physiologie der Lernaeocera branchialis L. [urther contributions to the morphology and physiology of Lernaeocera branchialis L.]. <em>Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde.</em> 9(5):648-668, figs. 1-9. (15-ix-1937). [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Schuurmans Stekhoven, J.H. Jr. (1936). Copepoda Parasitica from the Belgian coast. II. (Included some habitats in the North-Sea). <em>Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique.</em> 74:1-20, pls. 1-5. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Siva-Kumari, J. & D. Sreenivas-Rao. (2002). The development of fertilized eggs into larvae of Lernaeocera branchialis in the vascular system of mackerel Rastrelliger kanagurta. <em>Rivista di Parassitologia, Italy.</em> 19(2): 141-145. Aug 2002. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Smith, J.A. & P.J. Whitfield. (1988). Ultrastructural studies on the early cuticular metamorphosis of adult female Lernaeocera branchialis (L.) (Copepoda, Pennellidae). <em>In: Boxshall, G.A. & H.K. Schminke (eds.). Biology of Copepods. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Copepoda. Developments in Hydrobiolology 47, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Hydrobiologia.</em> 47(167/168):607-616, figs. 1-7. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Smith, J.W. (1969). The distribution of one monogenean and two copepod parasites of whiting, Merlangius merlangius (L.), caught in British waters. Nytt Magasin för Zoologi 17(1):57-63, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-6. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Templeman, W. & A.M. Fleming. (1963). Distribution of Lernaeocera branchialis (L.) on cod as an indicator of cod movement in the Newfoundland area. <em>Studies Stns. Fisheries Research Board of Canada.</em> 878(1):318-322, figs. 1-2. (Also in: Spec. Publn NW Atlant. Fish., 4: 318-322, figs. 1-2). [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Sproston, N.G. (1942). The developmental stages of Lernaeocera branchialis (Linn.). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom n. ser. 25:441-466, figs. 1-6. (x-1942) [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Sproston, N.G. & P.H.T. Hartley. (1941). The ecology of some parasitic copepods of gadoids and other fishes. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom n. ser. 25:361-392, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-11. (xi-1941) [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Sproston, N.G. & P.H.T. Hartley. (1941). Observations on the bionomics and physiology of Trebius caudatus and Lernaeocera branchialis (Copepoda). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom n. ser. 25:393-417, figs. 1-5, tabs. 1-4. (xi-1941) [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Sundnes, G. (1968). Lernaeocera branchialis på torsk (Gadus morrhua). [Lernaeocera branchialis on cod (Gadus morrhua).]. <em>Tiedoksianto (= Information) Suomen Tiedesenran Parasitologian Laitos.</em> 9:22-23. [details] additional source Sundnes, G. (1970). Lernaeocera branchialis (L.) on cod Gadus morhua (L.) in Norwegian waters. <em>Institute of Marine Research, Bergen.</em> 48 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Van den Broek, W.L.F. (1978). The effects of Lernaeocera branchialis on the Merlangius merlangus population in the Medway Estuary. <em>Journal of Fish Biology.</em> 13(6):709-715, fig. 1, tabs. 1-2. (xii-1978). [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Van den Broek, W.L.F. (1979). Infection of estuarine populations by Lernaeocera branchialis and its effects on whiting, Merlangius merlangus. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 6(4):2-3. (Abstract.) [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Whitfield, P.J., M.W. Pilcher, H.J. Grant & J. Riley. (1988). Experimental studies on the development of Lernaeocera branchialis (Copepoda: Pennellidae): population processes from egg production to maturation on the flatfish host. <em>In: Boxshall, G.A. & H.K. Schminke (eds.). Biology of Copepods. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Copepoda. Developments in Hydrobiolology 47, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Hydrobiologia.</em> 47(167/168):579-586, figs. 1-3, tab. 1. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Brooker, A.J. (2007). Aspects of the biology and behaviour of Lernaeocera branchialis (Linnaeus, 1767) (Copepoda: Pennellidae). <em>Ph.D. Thesis, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland.</em> 224 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Brooker, A.J., J.E. Bron & A.P. Shinn. (2012). Description of the free-swimming juvenile stages of Lernaeocera branchialis (Pennellidae), using traditional light and confocal microscopy methods. <em>Aquatic Biology.</em> 14(2):153-163. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Wilson, C.B. (1932). The copepods of the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 158:1-635, figs. 1-316, pls. 1-41. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Arntz, W.E. (1972). Über das Auftreten des parasitischen Copepoden Lernaeocera branchialis in der Kieler Bucht und seine Bedeutung als biologische Markierung. [On the occurrence of the parasitic copepod Lernaeocera branchialis in Kiel Bay and its significance as a biological marker.]. <em>Archiv für Fischereiwissenschaft.</em> 23(2):118-127, figs. 1-3, tabs. 1-5. (x-1972). [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source Anstensrud, M. (1989). Experimental studies of the reproductive behaviour of the parasitic copepod Lernaeocera branchialis (Pennellidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 69(2):465-476. (v.1989) [details] Available for editors [request] Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Distribution southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), upper North Shore (between Sept- Iles and Pointe des Monts), middle North Shore (from Sept - Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Island), Lower North Shore, Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone) to the Northeast of Anticosti Island (=Jacques Cartier Strait), Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Esquiman Channel), lower Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone as far as Cabot Strait: Cape North, N.S., St. Paul Island to Cape Ray, NL.), western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland, and including the Southwest slope of NL [details]Habitat ectoparasite found as larvae on Cyclopterus lumpus and Gadus morhua; bathyal and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Lernaeocera caparti Machado-Cruz, 1959) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (103 publications) (from synonym Lernaea branchialis Linnaeus, 1767) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (34 publications) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Lernaeocera obtusa Kabata, 1957) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lernaeocera branchialis) To GenBank (14934 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Lernaea branchialis Linnaeus, 1767) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (33 records) To ITIS |
