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Perissopus communis Rathbun, 1887 
AphiaID: 157792

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Maxillopoda (Class) > Copepoda (Subclass) > Neocopepoda (Infraclass) > Podoplea (Superorder) > Siphonostomatoida (Order) > Pandaridae (Family) > Perissopus (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Perissopus dentatus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861
Rank Species
Parent Perissopus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861
Source  basis of record: Wilson, C.B.. 1932. The copepods of the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 158:1-635, figs. 1-316, pls. 1-41. (16-viii-1932) [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution North West Atlantic [details]
Feedingtypes  adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Carcharhinus limbatus (Müller & Henle, 1839) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Carcharhinus milberti (Müller & Henle, 1839) accepted as Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo, 1827) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Scoliodon terraenovae (Richardson, 1836) accepted as Rhizoprionodon terraenovae (Richardson, 1836) [details]
Link To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Copepod Collection
Notes  Distribution: Woods Hole [details]

Habitat: Found on the gills and fins of the dusky shark, the brown shark, and the smooth dogfish. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157792
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-05-24 07:32:08Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-08-06 13:32:15Z  changed  Walter, T. Chad
2009-03-02 19:53:48Z  changed  Boxshall, Geoff
  
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  Citation: Boxshall, G.; Walter, T. Chad (2013). Perissopus communis Rathbun, 1887. 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=157792 on 2013-05-19
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