WoRMS taxon details
Caligus asperimanus Pearse, 1951
349564 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:349564)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Pearse, A.S. (1951). Parasitic Crustacea from Bimini, Bahamas. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 101(3280):341-372, figs. 67-77. (2-ii-1951), available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.101-3280.341 [details] Available for editors 
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Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2026). World of Copepods Database. Caligus asperimanus Pearse, 1951. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=349564 on 2026-03-26
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Nomenclature
original description
Pearse, A.S. (1951). Parasitic Crustacea from Bimini, Bahamas. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 101(3280):341-372, figs. 67-77. (2-ii-1951), available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.101-3280.341 [details] Available for editors [request]
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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., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.497 [details] Available for editors [request]
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additional source
Oliveira, B.D., L.F.L. Fernandes, G.M. Rocha, A.C.G.S. Malanski & F. Paschoal. (2020). Occurrence of Caligus asperimanus Pearse, 1951 (Copepoda: Caligidae) parasitic Lutjanus spp. (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) in the western South Atlantic. Ocorrência de Caligus asperimanus Pearse, 1951 (Copepoda: Caligidae) parasitos de Lutjanus spp. (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) no Atlântico Sul ocidental. <em>Revista Brasileira De Parasitologia Veterinaria.</em> 29(2):1-4. e018219., available online at https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-29612020001 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Oliveira, B.L. (2020). Resposta fisiológica do dentão (Lutjanus jocu) durante o transporte e sob condições diferentes de cultivo. [Physiological response of the dog snapper (Lutjanus jocu) during transport and under different cultivation conditions.]. <em>Tese de Doutorado, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil.</em> 81 pp. [In Portuguese and English]. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Dippenaar, S.M. & M.M. Sebone. (2025). Caligus (Caligidae: Siphonostomatoida) species off southern Africa with the description of C. pillaii sp. nov. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5686(2): 151-197., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5686.2.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Oliveira, B.L. (2020). Resposta fisiológica do dentão (Lutjanus jocu) durante o transporte e sob condições diferentes de cultivo. [Physiological response of the dog snapper (Lutjanus jocu) during transport and under different cultivation conditions.]. <em>Tese de Doutorado, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil.</em> 81 pp. [In Portuguese and English]. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Dippenaar, S.M. & M.M. Sebone. (2025). Caligus (Caligidae: Siphonostomatoida) species off southern Africa with the description of C. pillaii sp. nov. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5686(2): 151-197., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5686.2.1 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
