WoRMS name details
Lernanthropus indicus Pillai, 1967
359161 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:359161)
accepted > unreplaced junior homonym
Species
Lernanthropus carangis Pillai N.K., 1967 · unaccepted (indicus is the replacement name...)
indicus is the replacement name as L. carangis was preoccupied by Hesse species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2026). World of Copepods Database. Lernanthropus indicus Pillai, 1967. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=359161 on 2026-10-06
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Nomenclature
original description
Pillai, N.K. (1967). Copepods parasitic on Indian marine fishes. A review. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Crustacea. Symposium Series, Marine Biological Association of India (2)5:1556-1680, figs. 1-266. [details] Available for editors 
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original description (of Lernanthropus carangis Pillai N.K., 1967) Pillai, N.K. (1967). Copepods parasitic on Indian marine fishes. A review. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Crustacea. Symposium Series, Marine Biological Association of India (2)5:1556-1680, figs. 1-266. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]original description (of Lernanthropus carangis Pillai N.K., 1967) Pillai, N.K. (1967). Copepods parasitic on Indian marine fishes. A review. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Crustacea. Symposium Series, Marine Biological Association of India (2)5:1556-1680, figs. 1-266. [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Al-Ataby, F.H., K.S. Al-Niaeem & S.A. Al-Azizz. (2012). A new record of the parasitic copepod, Lernanthropus indicus (Pillai, 1967) (Copepoda: Lernanthropidae) from carangid fishes in north-west Arabian Gulf, Iraq. <em>Eqyptian Journal of Experimental Biology (Zoology).</em> 8(2):175-179. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Arafa, S.Z.A. & S.A. Fahmy. (2018). First record of the parasitic copepod, Lernanthropus indicus (Crustacea: Lernanthropida) on Carangoides bajad from the Red Sea, Egypt. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology , 48(3):509-512. , available online at https://doi.org/10.21608/jesp.2018.76546 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Farooq, S., A. Batool, M. Ara & N. Arshad. (2019). A new record of the parasitic copepod, Lernanthropus indicus (Pillai, 1967) (Siphonostomatoida: Lernanthropidae) from Karachi coast Pakistan. <em>Pakistan Journal of Marine Sciences.</em> 28(1):1-4. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pillai, N.K. (1967). Copepods parasitic on Indian marine fishes. A review. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Crustacea. Symposium Series, Marine Biological Association of India (2)5:1556-1680, figs. 1-266. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pillai, N.K. (1985). Copepod Parasites of Marine Fishes. <em>In: The Fauna of India. Zoological Society of India, Calcutta.</em> 900pp., figs. 1-279.
page(s): 558 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Arafa, S.Z.A. & S.A. Fahmy. (2018). First record of the parasitic copepod, Lernanthropus indicus (Crustacea: Lernanthropida) on Carangoides bajad from the Red Sea, Egypt. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology , 48(3):509-512. , available online at https://doi.org/10.21608/jesp.2018.76546 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Farooq, S., A. Batool, M. Ara & N. Arshad. (2019). A new record of the parasitic copepod, Lernanthropus indicus (Pillai, 1967) (Siphonostomatoida: Lernanthropidae) from Karachi coast Pakistan. <em>Pakistan Journal of Marine Sciences.</em> 28(1):1-4. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pillai, N.K. (1967). Copepods parasitic on Indian marine fishes. A review. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Crustacea. Symposium Series, Marine Biological Association of India (2)5:1556-1680, figs. 1-266. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pillai, N.K. (1985). Copepod Parasites of Marine Fishes. <em>In: The Fauna of India. Zoological Society of India, Calcutta.</em> 900pp., figs. 1-279.
page(s): 558 [details] Available for editors
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