WoRMS taxon details

Lepeophtheirus hippoglossi (Krøyer, 1837)

135776  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135776)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Copepoda (Class)
  7. Neocopepoda (Infraclass)
  8. Podoplea (Superorder)
  9. Siphonostomatoida (Order)
  10. Caligidae (Family)
  11. Lepeophtheirus (Genus)
  12. Lepeophtheirus hippoglossi (Species)
accepted
Species
Caligus hippoglossi Krøyer, 1837 · unaccepted (listed as synonym by Kabata, 1979)
Caligus obscurus Bassett-Smith, 1896 · unaccepted (synonym, according to...)  
synonym, according to Bassett-Smith, 1899
Lepeophtheirus obscurus Baird, 1850 · unaccepted (synonymy)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Caligus hippoglossi Krøyer, 1837) Krøyer, H. (1837). Om Snyltekrebsene, isaer med Hensyn til den danske Fauna. III. Formbeskrivelser (Fortsaettelse).[Concerning parasitic Crustacea with special reference to the Danish fauna. ]. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift Ser. I.</em> 1(6): 605-628, pl. 6. [details] OpenAccess publication
Distribution British Isles; Atlantic coast of Europe; North Sea; Faroes; Iceland; Brents Sea; Atlantic coast of North America as far south as...  
Distribution British Isles; Atlantic coast of Europe; North Sea; Faroes; Iceland; Brents Sea; Atlantic coast of North America as far south as Massachusetts; Bering Sea [details]

Distribution Arctic to Cape Cod  
Distribution Arctic to Cape Cod [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Lepeophtheirus hippoglossi (Krøyer, 1837). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135776 on 2025-04-18
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Nomenclature

original description (of Caligus hippoglossi Krøyer, 1837) Krøyer, H. (1837). Om Snyltekrebsene, isaer med Hensyn til den danske Fauna. III. Formbeskrivelser (Fortsaettelse).[Concerning parasitic Crustacea with special reference to the Danish fauna. ]. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift Ser. I.</em> 1(6): 605-628, pl. 6. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Caligus obscurus Bassett-Smith, 1896) Bassett-Smith, P.W. (1896). A list of the parasitic Copepoda of fish obtained at Plymouth. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, New Series 4:153-163. (ii-1896) [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Lepeophtheirus obscurus Baird, 1850) Baird, W. (1850). The Natural History of the British Entomostraca. <em>Ray Society, London.</em> 364 pp, pls. 1-36. [details] OpenAccess publication

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] 

Other

additional 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  PDF available [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  PDF available [request]

additional source Markevich, A.P. (1956). Paraziticheskie veslonogie ryb SSSR. [Parasitic copepods of fishes of the USSR.]. <em>Akademiya Nauk Ukraine SSR, Institut Zoology, Kiev.</em> 259 pp. figs. 1-153. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Wilson, C.B. (1905). North American parasitic copepods belonging to the family Caligidae. Part 1.- The Caliginae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 28(1404):479-672, pls. 5-29. (23-vi-1905). [details] OpenAccess publication

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  PDF available [request]

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Distribution British Isles; Atlantic coast of Europe; North Sea; Faroes; Iceland; Brents Sea; Atlantic coast of North America as far south as Massachusetts; Bering Sea [details]

Unreviewed
Distribution Arctic to Cape Cod [details]

Habitat ectoparasite found on Hippoglossus hippoglossus and Reinhardtius hippoglossoides. bathyal of the Gulf and estuary [details]
    Definitions

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To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Lepeophtheirus obscurus Baird, 1850)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lepeophtheirus hippoglossi) 
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins) 
To PESI 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (12 records) 
To ITIS