WoRMS taxon details
Caligus nengai Rangnekar, Rangnekar & Murti, 1953
AphiaID: 349688
AphiaID: 349688
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Maxillopoda (Class) > Copepoda (Subclass) > Neocopepoda (Infraclass) > Podoplea (Superorder) > Siphonostomatoida (Order) > Caligidae (Family) > Caligus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Caligus O.F. Müller, 1785 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Caligus distortus Pillai & Natarajan, 1977 (synonym according to Ho et al. (2000)) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Walter, Chad. The world of Copepods. [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Arius maculatus (Thunberg, 1792) [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Arius nenga (Hamilton, 1822) accepted as Nemapteryx nenga (Hamilton, 1822) [details] adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Caranx sexfasciatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1825 [details] adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Triacanthus biaculeatus (Bloch, 1786) [details] adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus, 1758 [details] | ||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: India and Taiwan [details] Habitat: inner wall of operculum [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:349688 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Boxshall, G.; Walter, T. Chad (2013). Caligus nengai Rangnekar, Rangnekar & Murti, 1953. 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=349688 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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