WoRMS taxon details

Unicolax mycterobius (Vervoort, 1965)

360759  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:360759)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Copepoda (Class)
  7. Neocopepoda (Infraclass)
  8. Podoplea (Superorder)
  9. Cyclopoida (Order)
  10. Ergasilida (Suborder)
  11. Bomolochidae (Family)
  12. Unicolax (Genus)
  13. Unicolax mycterobius (Species)
accepted
Species
Cephalocolax mycterobius (Vervoort, 1965) · unaccepted (transferred by Cressey & Cressey (1980))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Parabomolochus mycterobius Vervoort, 1965) Vervoort, W. (1965). Three new species of Bomolochidae (Copepoda, Cyclopoida) from tropical Atlantic tunnies. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden 76:1-40, figs. 1-22. (14-ix-1965) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Distribution Gulf of Guinea; Massachusetts; Ghardaqa, Egypt; Formosa; Tokyo; Luzon, Phillipines; New South Wales, Australia; Hawaii;...  
Distribution Gulf of Guinea; Massachusetts; Ghardaqa, Egypt; Formosa; Tokyo; Luzon, Phillipines; New South Wales, Australia; Hawaii; Pensacola, Florida; Lebanon; Kagoshima, Japan. [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Unicolax mycterobius (Vervoort, 1965). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=360759 on 2025-05-03
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Walter, T. Chad

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Nomenclature

original description (of Parabomolochus mycterobius Vervoort, 1965) Vervoort, W. (1965). Three new species of Bomolochidae (Copepoda, Cyclopoida) from tropical Atlantic tunnies. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden 76:1-40, figs. 1-22. (14-ix-1965) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

new combination reference Cressey, R.F. & H.B. Cressey. (1980). Parasitic copepods of mackerel- and tuna-like fishes (Scombridae) of the world. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 311:i-iv, 1-186, figs. 1-139. (1-iv-1980)
note: Unicolax mycterobius (Vervoort, 1965) n. comb. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Taxonomy

redescription Izawa, K. (2022). Redescription of Unicolax mycterobius (Vervoort, 1965) (Copepoda, Cyclopoida, Bomolochidae) recovered from Auxis thazard (Lacépède, 1800) (Pisces, Scombridae) in Japan. <em>Crustaceana.</em> 95(10-12):1223-1229., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/15685403-bja10255 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
From editor or global species database
Distribution Gulf of Guinea; Massachusetts; Ghardaqa, Egypt; Formosa; Tokyo; Luzon, Phillipines; New South Wales, Australia; Hawaii; Pensacola, Florida; Lebanon; Kagoshima, Japan. [details]
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Bomolochus mycterobius (Vervoort, 1965))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (19 records) 
To ITIS

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