Copepoda taxon details

Ergasilus kandti Douwe, 1912

351586 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:351586)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Arthropoda
  4. Crustacea
  5. Multicrustacea
  6. Copepoda
  7. Neocopepoda
  8. Podoplea
  9. Cyclopoida
  10. Ergasilida
  11. Ergasilidae
  12. Ergasilus
  13. Ergasilus kandti
accepted
Species
Ergasilus von Nordmann, 1832
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Douwe, C. van. (1912). Copepoden des ostafrikanischen Seengebietes. [Copepods of the East African Lake District.]. <em>Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907-08.</em> 3(15)(= Zool. 1):487-496, pls. 9-10. [details] OpenAccess publication
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2021). World of Copepods database. Ergasilus kandti Douwe, 1912. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=351586 on 2026-08-27
Date
action
by
2008-07-15 14:41:49Z
created
Walter, T. Chad
2009-12-11 21:31:42Z
changed
Ho, Ju-shey
2009-12-22 18:13:43Z
changed
Ho, Ju-shey

original description Douwe, C. van. (1912). Copepoden des ostafrikanischen Seengebietes. [Copepods of the East African Lake District.]. <em>Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907-08.</em> 3(15)(= Zool. 1):487-496, pls. 9-10. [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Andrews, M. (2004). A review of the family Ergasilidae (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida) of Africa. <em>M.Sc. Thesis, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.</em> 219 pp. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Capart, A. (1944). Notes sur les Copépodes parasites. III. Copépodes parasites des poissons d'eau douce du Congo Belge. [Notes on Parasitic Copepods. III. Parasitic Copepods of Freshwater Fish of the Belgian Congo.]. <em>Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de la Belgique.</em> 20(24):1-24, figs. 1-4. (ix-1944). [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Fryer, G. (1964). Further studies on the parasitic Crustacea of African freshwater fishes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 143(1):79-102, figs. 1-28. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Jansen, D., M.P.M. Vanhove, L. Makasa, J. Vorel, N. Kmentova & A.J. Cruz-Laufer. (2024). Ergasilid copepods in Africa: first application of next-generation sequencing and update on distribution and phylogenetic position of Ergasilus kandti, a parasite of cichlid fishes. <em>BioRxiv.</em> 39 pp., available online at https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.27.586948; [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Jansen, D., M.P.M. Vanhove, L. Makasa, J. Vorel, N. Kmentova & A.J. Cruz-Laufer. (2025). Mitogenomics, phylogenetic position, and updated distribution of Ergasilus kandti, an ergasilid copepod parasitizing African cichlid fishes. <em>Hydrobioloiga, Special Issue: Advances in Cichlid Research VI: Behavior, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.</em> 852(15):3929-3954. [online 2024 OCT]., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-024-05702-3 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
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