WoRMS taxon details
Prosaetes rhinodontis (Wright E.P., 1876)
360276 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:360276)
accepted
Species
Dysgamus atlanticus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861 · unaccepted (synonym according to Tang,...)
synonym according to Tang, Yamagisawa & Nagasawa (2010)
Dysgamus rhinodontis (Wright E.P., 1876) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Echthrogaleus pectinatus Kirtisinghe, 1964 · unaccepted (synonym according to Tang,...)
synonym according to Tang, Yamagisawa & Nagasawa (2010)
Stasiotes rhinodontis Wright E.P., 1876 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Stasiotes rhinodontis Wright E.P., 1876) Wright, E.P. (1876). A new genus and species belonging to the Family Pandaridae. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.</em> (2)2:583-585, pl. 35. (vii-1876). [details] 
Distribution Capetown, South Africa
Distribution Capetown, South Africa [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Prosaetes rhinodontis (Wright E.P., 1876). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=360276 on 2025-05-09
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Echthrogaleus pectinatus Kirtisinghe, 1964) Kirtisinghe, P. (1964). A review of the parasitic copepods of fish recorded from Ceylon, with descriptions of additional forms. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Station, Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 17(1):45-132, figs. 1-191. (vi-1964) [details] Available for editors 
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original description (of Dysgamus atlanticus 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]
original description (of Stasiotes rhinodontis Wright E.P., 1876) Wright, E.P. (1876). A new genus and species belonging to the Family Pandaridae. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.</em> (2)2:583-585, pl. 35. (vii-1876). [details]
[request]original description (of Dysgamus atlanticus 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]
original description (of Stasiotes rhinodontis Wright E.P., 1876) Wright, E.P. (1876). A new genus and species belonging to the Family Pandaridae. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.</em> (2)2:583-585, pl. 35. (vii-1876). [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Tang, D., M. Yanagisawa & K. Nagasawa. (2010). Redescription of Prosaetes rhinodontis (Wright, 1876) (Crustacea: Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida), an enigmatic parasite of the whale shark, Rhincodon typus Smith (Elasmobranchii: Orectolobiformes: Rhincodontidae). Zootaxa 2493:1-15. [details] Available for editors [request]
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additional source
Tang, D., G.W. Benz & K. Nagasawa. (2012). Description of the male of Prosaetes rhinodontis (Wright, 1876) (Crustacea, Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida), with a proposal to synonymize Cecropidae Dana, 1849 and Amaterasidae Izawa, 2008 with Pandaridae Milne Edwards. <em>Zoosymposia.</em> 8:7-19. [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Distribution Capetown, South Africa [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Dysgamus atlanticus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Dysgamus atlanticus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Echthrogaleus pectinatus Kirtisinghe, 1964)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Dysgamus atlanticus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Dysgamus atlanticus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Echthrogaleus pectinatus Kirtisinghe, 1964)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records)
To ITIS