Copepoda taxon details
Caligus dakari Beneden, 1892
349604 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:349604)
accepted
Species
Caligus mauritanicus Brian, 1924 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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] 
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Caligus dakari Beneden, 1892. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=349604 on 2026-06-24
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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]
original description (of Caligus mauritanicus Brian, 1924) Brian, A. (1924). Copepoda. Copepodes commensaux et parasites des cotes Mauritaniennes. [Copepoda. Commensal and parasitic copepods of the Mauritanian coasts.]. <em>In: Parasitologica Mauritanica. Matériaux pour la faune parasitologique en Mauritanie.</em> 1(1):1-66, figs. 1-67, also Bulletin du Comitae d'etudes Historiques et Scientifiques de l'Afrique Occidentale Francoaise 9:363-427, figs. 1-69. [details] Available for editors
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additional source 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 [request]
additional source Pillai, N.K. (1967). Copepods parasitic on Indian marine fishes. A review. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Crustacea. Symposium Series, Marine Biological Association of India (2)5:1556-1680, figs. 1-266. [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): 279 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Öktener, A. (2009). Caligus mauritanicus Brian, 1924 a parasite of common cultured Dentex dentex L. from Aegean Sea and parasites of cultured fishes of Turkey. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 41(5):417-420. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Nunkoo, M.A.I., C.C. Reed & S.E. Kerwath. (2016). Community ecology of the metazoan parasites of snoek Thyrsites atun (Euphrasen, 1791) (Perciformes: Gempylidae) off South Africa. <em>African Journal of Marine Science.</em> 38(3):363-371., available online at https://doi.org/10.2989/1814232x.2016.1216892 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kumar, K.A. (1990). Studies on copepod parasites on elasmobranchs of Kerala Coast. <em>Ph.D. Thesis, The Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India.</em> 286 pp.
note: Kumar reported incorrectly reported taxa as Caligus dakari [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Nunkoo, M.A.I. (2015). A survey of the metazoan parasite assemblage of snoek, Thyrsites atun (Euphrasen, 1791), off South Africa with an assessment of host-parasite relationships and potential biological tags. <em>M.S. Thesis, University of Cape Town, South Africa.</em> 171 pp., available online at https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.3392.3683 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Weston, M.J. (2018). Investigating trophic interactions between parasites and their marine fish hosts using stable isotope analysis. <em>Master's Thesis, Faculty of Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.</em> xxxv + 139 pp., available online at http:// http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28153 [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription Boxshall, G.A. & H.H. El-Rashidy. (2009). A review of the Caligus productus species group, with the description of a new species, new synonymies and supplementary descriptions. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2271: 1-26., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2271.1.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Caligus mauritanicus Brian, 1924) Brian, A. (1924). Copepoda. Copepodes commensaux et parasites des cotes Mauritaniennes. [Copepoda. Commensal and parasitic copepods of the Mauritanian coasts.]. <em>In: Parasitologica Mauritanica. Matériaux pour la faune parasitologique en Mauritanie.</em> 1(1):1-66, figs. 1-67, also Bulletin du Comitae d'etudes Historiques et Scientifiques de l'Afrique Occidentale Francoaise 9:363-427, figs. 1-69. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source 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
[request]additional source Pillai, N.K. (1967). Copepods parasitic on Indian marine fishes. A review. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Crustacea. Symposium Series, Marine Biological Association of India (2)5:1556-1680, figs. 1-266. [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): 279 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Öktener, A. (2009). Caligus mauritanicus Brian, 1924 a parasite of common cultured Dentex dentex L. from Aegean Sea and parasites of cultured fishes of Turkey. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 41(5):417-420. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Nunkoo, M.A.I., C.C. Reed & S.E. Kerwath. (2016). Community ecology of the metazoan parasites of snoek Thyrsites atun (Euphrasen, 1791) (Perciformes: Gempylidae) off South Africa. <em>African Journal of Marine Science.</em> 38(3):363-371., available online at https://doi.org/10.2989/1814232x.2016.1216892 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kumar, K.A. (1990). Studies on copepod parasites on elasmobranchs of Kerala Coast. <em>Ph.D. Thesis, The Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India.</em> 286 pp.
note: Kumar reported incorrectly reported taxa as Caligus dakari [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Nunkoo, M.A.I. (2015). A survey of the metazoan parasite assemblage of snoek, Thyrsites atun (Euphrasen, 1791), off South Africa with an assessment of host-parasite relationships and potential biological tags. <em>M.S. Thesis, University of Cape Town, South Africa.</em> 171 pp., available online at https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.3392.3683 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Weston, M.J. (2018). Investigating trophic interactions between parasites and their marine fish hosts using stable isotope analysis. <em>Master's Thesis, Faculty of Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.</em> xxxv + 139 pp., available online at http:// http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28153 [details] Available for editors
[request]redescription Boxshall, G.A. & H.H. El-Rashidy. (2009). A review of the Caligus productus species group, with the description of a new species, new synonymies and supplementary descriptions. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2271: 1-26., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2271.1.1 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Caligus mauritanicus Brian, 1924)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Caligus dakari)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Caligus mauritanicus Brian, 1924)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Caligus mauritanicus Brian, 1924)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Caligus dakari)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Caligus mauritanicus Brian, 1924)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Caligus mauritanicus Brian, 1924)
From editor or global species database
