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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaligus coryphaenae Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861 
AphiaID: 135748

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorArthropoda (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCrustacea (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMaxillopoda (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCopepoda (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeocopepoda (Infraclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPodoplea (Superorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSiphonostomatoida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaligidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaligus (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaligus O.F. Müller, 1785
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaligus aliuncus Wilson C.B., 1905 (synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaligus elongatus Heegaard, 1943 (synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaligus scutatus Milne Edwards, 1840 (probable synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaligus tesserifer Shiino, 1952 (synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaligus thymni Dana, 1852 (synonym)
Sources  original description Steenstrup, J.J.S. & C.F. Lütken. 1861. Bidrag til Kundskab om det aabne Havs Snyltekrebs og Lernaeer samt om nogle andre nye eller hidtil kun ufuldstaendigt kjendte parasitiske Copepoder. Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, Naturhistorisk og Mathematisk Afdeling (5)5: 341-432, pls. 1-15. (Also English translation, bound separately.) [details]

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Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution 
From other sources
North Atlantic Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEuropean waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorth West Atlantic [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorUnited Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
(no group)
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNew Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Feedingtypes  adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAcanthocybium solandri (Cuvier, 1832) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaranx melampygus Cuvier, 1833 [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCoryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758 [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEuthynnus affinis (Cantor, 1849) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEuthynnus alleteratus (Rafinesque, 1810) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEuthynnus alletteratus (Rafinesque, 1810) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEuthynnus alletteratus (Rafinesque, 1810) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEuthynnus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorKatsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEuthynnus yaito Kishinouye, 1915 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEuthynnus affinis (Cantor, 1849) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGrammatorcynus bilineatus (Rüppell, 1836) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorKatsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeothunnus albacora (Lowe, 1839) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorThunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorParathunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorThunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSarda orientalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSqualus acanthias Linnaeus, 1758 [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorThunnus alalunga (Cetti, 1777) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorThunnus alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorThunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorThunnus atlanticus (Lesson, 1831) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorThunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorThunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758) [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo PESI 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Copepod Collection 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
Notes 
From editor or global species database
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDistribution tropical and subtropical Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans [details]

From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorHabitat Ectoparsite found on Thunnus thynnus. Upper epipelagic of the Gulf and estuary [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135748
Taxonomic
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Boxshall, Geoff
  
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  Citation: Boxshall, G. (2013). Caligus coryphaenae Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861. In: Walter, T.C. & Boxshall, G. (2013). World of Copepods database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135748 on 2014-04-16
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