WoRMS taxon details

Caligus rufimaculatus Wilson C.B., 1905

157763  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157763)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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 
Distribution Bay of Fundy to Cape Cod  
Distribution Bay of Fundy to Cape Cod [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2024). World of Copepods Database. Caligus rufimaculatus Wilson C.B., 1905. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157763 on 2024-03-19
Date
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2005-05-24 07:32:08Z
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2008-08-06 13:32:15Z
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original description 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 

basis of record Hogans, W.E. (1995). Parasitic Copepoda in the collection of the Atlantic Reference Centre, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2028:1-6. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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

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 Kim, I.H., E. Suarez-Morales & B. Marquez-Rojas. (2019). Caligid copepods (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Caligidae) as zooplankters off the venezuelan coast, western Caribbean Sea. Thalassas, 35(2):607-618., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s41208-019-00130-w [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Caña-Bozada, V.H. (2014). Registro de Caligus Müller, 1785 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Caligidae) parasitando peces marinos de la costa de Jaramijó. <em>Thesis de Grade Previo a la obtención del titulo de biologo pesquero, Universidad Laica 'Eloy Alfaro' de Manabí, Ecuador.</em> 63 pp. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

redescription Cressey, R.F. (1991). Parasitic copepods from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, III: Caligus. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 497:i-iii, 1-53 (including appendix), figs. 1-220. [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 Bay of Fundy to Cape Cod [details]

From other sources
Habitat parasitic species (host: e.g. Fundulus diaphanus, Banded killifish) [details]