Copepoda taxon details
Gloiopotes Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861
347185 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:347185)
accepted
Genus
Gloiopotes hygomianus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861 (type by monotypy)
Calina Beneden, 1892 · unaccepted (synonym)
- Species Gloiopotes americanus Cressey, 1967
- Species Gloiopotes huttoni (Thomson G.M., 1890)
- Species Gloiopotes hygomianus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861
- Species Gloiopotes ornatus Wilson C.B., 1905
- Species Gloiopotes watsoni Kirtisinghe, 1934
- Species Gloiopotes auricularius Barnard, 1957 accepted as Gloiopotes watsoni Kirtisinghe, 1934 (synonym)
- Species Gloiopotes costatus Wilson C.B., 1919 accepted as Gloiopotes huttoni (Thomson G.M., 1890) (synonym)
- Species Gloiopotes crassus Wilson & Bere, in. Bere, 1936 accepted as Lepeophtheirus crassus (Wilson & Bere, 1936) (transferred by Shiino, 1960)
- Species Gloiopotes indicus Kumar, 1990 (unaccepted > interim unpublished)
- Species Gloiopotes longicaudatus (Marukawa, 1927) accepted as Gloiopotes huttoni (Thomson G.M., 1890) (synonym)
- Species Gloiopotes vulpinensis Kumar, 1990 (unaccepted > interim unpublished)
- Species Gloiopotes zeugopteri Satyanarayana, 1951 accepted as Gloiopotes huttoni (Thomson G.M., 1890) (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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] 
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Gloiopotes Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=347185 on 2026-06-22
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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 Calina Beneden, 1892) Beneden, P.J. Van. (1892). Quelques nouveaux Caligidés de la côte d'Afrique et de l'archipel des Açores. [Some new Caligidae from the coast of Africa and the Azores archipelago.]. <em>Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique.</em> (3)24:241-262, pls. 1-4. [details]
context source (PeRMS) Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. [Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru.]. <em>Neotropical Helminthology.</em> 10(2):301-375., available online at https://doi.org/10.24039/rnh2016102751 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Cressey, R.F. (1967). Genus Gloiopotes and a new species. With notes on host specificity and intraspecific variation (Copepoda: Caligoida). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 122(3600):1-22, figs. 1-55, pls. 1-4. (2-vi-1967), available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.122-3600.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pillai, N.K. (1985). Copepod Parasites of Marine Fishes. <em>In: The Fauna of India. Zoological Society of India, Calcutta.</em> 900pp., figs. 1-279.
page(s): 479 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Calina Beneden, 1892) Beneden, P.J. Van. (1892). Quelques nouveaux Caligidés de la côte d'Afrique et de l'archipel des Açores. [Some new Caligidae from the coast of Africa and the Azores archipelago.]. <em>Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique.</em> (3)24:241-262, pls. 1-4. [details]
context source (PeRMS) Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. [Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru.]. <em>Neotropical Helminthology.</em> 10(2):301-375., available online at https://doi.org/10.24039/rnh2016102751 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Cressey, R.F. (1967). Genus Gloiopotes and a new species. With notes on host specificity and intraspecific variation (Copepoda: Caligoida). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 122(3600):1-22, figs. 1-55, pls. 1-4. (2-vi-1967), available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.122-3600.1 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pillai, N.K. (1985). Copepod Parasites of Marine Fishes. <em>In: The Fauna of India. Zoological Society of India, Calcutta.</em> 900pp., figs. 1-279.
page(s): 479 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
3x5 C.B. Wilson Taxonomic Card - Calina 
(from synonym Calina Beneden, 1892)
3x5 C.B. Wilson Taxonomic Card - Gloiopotes
3x5 J.S. Ho Taxonomic Card - Calina (from synonym Calina Beneden, 1892)
3x5 J.S. Ho Taxonomic Card - Gloiopotes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gloiopotes)
To Genbank
To ITIS
(from synonym Calina Beneden, 1892)3x5 C.B. Wilson Taxonomic Card - Gloiopotes
3x5 J.S. Ho Taxonomic Card - Calina
(from synonym Calina Beneden, 1892)3x5 J.S. Ho Taxonomic Card - Gloiopotes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gloiopotes)
To Genbank
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
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