WoRMS taxon details
Caligus mutabilis Wilson C.B., 1905
349687 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:349687)
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] 
Distribution Woods Hole, Massachusetts; Brazil; Costa Rica; Surinam; west coast of Florida; Campeche
Distribution Woods Hole, Massachusetts; Brazil; Costa Rica; Surinam; west coast of Florida; Campeche [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2026). World of Copepods Database. Caligus mutabilis Wilson C.B., 1905. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=349687 on 2026-01-16
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Nomenclature
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]
Taxonomy
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Cressey, R.F. & H.B. Cressey. (1980). Parasitic copepods of mackerel- and tuna-like fishes (Scombridae) of the world. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 311:i-iv, 1-186, figs. 1-139. (1-iv-1980) [details] Available for editors 
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additional source
Sanches, E.G., C.E. Kerber, F. Paschoal & J.L. Luque. (2012). First record of Caligus mutabilis (Copepoda: Caligidae), in sea-farmed Mycteroperca microlepis (Perciformes: Serranidae) in Brazil. <em>Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinaria, Jaboticabal.</em> 21(3):330-333. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Violante-González, J., Y. Gallegos-Navarro, S. Monks, S. García-Ibáñez, A.A. Rojas-Herrera, G. Pulido-Flores, S. Villerías-Salinas & E. Larumbe-Morán. (2016). Parasites of the green jack Caranx caballus (Pisces: Carangidae) in three locations from Pacific coasts of Mexico, and their utility as biological tags. <em>Revista Mexicana De Biodiversidad.</em> 87(3):1015-1022., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmb.2016.07.010 [details] Available for editors [request]
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 [request]
additional source Soler-Jiménez, L.C., F.N. Morales-Serna, M.L. Aguirre-Macedo, J.P. McLaughlin, A.G. Jaramillo, J.C. Shaw, A.K. James. R.F. Hechinger, A.M. Kuris, K.D. Lafferty & V.M. Vidal-Martínez. (2019). Parasitic copepods (Crustacea, Hexanauplia) on fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll, Central Pacific. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 833:85-106., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.833.30835 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Violante-González, J., Y. Gallegos-Navarro, S. Monks, S. García-Ibáñez, A.A. Rojas-Herrera, G. Pulido-Flores, S. Villerías-Salinas & E. Larumbe-Morán. (2016). Parasites of the green jack Caranx caballus (Pisces: Carangidae) in three locations from Pacific coasts of Mexico, and their utility as biological tags. <em>Revista Mexicana De Biodiversidad.</em> 87(3):1015-1022., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmb.2016.07.010 [details] Available for editors
[request]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
[request]additional source Soler-Jiménez, L.C., F.N. Morales-Serna, M.L. Aguirre-Macedo, J.P. McLaughlin, A.G. Jaramillo, J.C. Shaw, A.K. James. R.F. Hechinger, A.M. Kuris, K.D. Lafferty & V.M. Vidal-Martínez. (2019). Parasitic copepods (Crustacea, Hexanauplia) on fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll, Central Pacific. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 833:85-106., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.833.30835 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Distribution Woods Hole, Massachusetts; Brazil; Costa Rica; Surinam; west coast of Florida; Campeche [details]
