WoRMS taxon details
Paralebion elongatus Wilson C.B., 1911
354257 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:354257)
accepted
Species
Lepeophtheirus elongatus Heegaard, 1962 · unaccepted (synonym according to Dojiri, 1983)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Wilson, C.B. (1911). North American parasitic copepods. Descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 39(1805):625-634, pls. 65-68. (11-iii-1911) [details] 
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Paralebion elongatus Wilson C.B., 1911. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=354257 on 2025-08-23
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Nomenclature
original description
Wilson, C.B. (1911). North American parasitic copepods. Descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 39(1805):625-634, pls. 65-68. (11-iii-1911) [details]
original description (of Lepeophtheirus elongatus Heegaard, 1962) Heegaard, P.E. (1962). Parasitic Copepoda from Australian waters. Records of the Australian Museum 25(9):149-234, figs. 1-250. (28-v-1962) [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Lepeophtheirus elongatus Heegaard, 1962) Heegaard, P.E. (1962). Parasitic Copepoda from Australian waters. Records of the Australian Museum 25(9):149-234, figs. 1-250. (28-v-1962) [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Benz, G.W., P.J. Mohan & G.L. Crow. (1992). Developmental stages of Paralebion elongatus from aquarium-held reef whitetip sharks (Triaenodon obesus) captured in Hawaiian waters. Journal of Parasitology 78(6):1027-1035, ilustr. [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): 516 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Wilson, C.B. (1935). Parasitic copepods from the Dry Tortugas. Papers of the Tortugas Laboratory 29(12):329-347, pls. 1-6. (Publs. Carnegie Inst. Wash. 452). (9-xii-1935). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ding, D.S., Y.Y. Chen, C.H. Chen & Y.R. Cheng. (2021). The first occurrence of Paralebion elongatus (Siphonostomatoida: Caligidae) parasite on sharptooth lemon shark, Negaprion acutidens, in the West Pacific, with a full description of a chalimus-like stage. <em>Journal Fisheries Society Taiwan.</em> 48(3):161-175., available online at https://doi.org/10.29822/JFST.202109/SP_48(3).0005 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bernot, J.P, G.A. Boxshall, T.C. Kihara & P.M. Arbizu. (2025). An Updated Key to the Genera of Caligidae (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida.). <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 111(1):10-25., available online at https://doi.org/10.1645/24-97 [details] Available for editors [request]
[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): 516 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Wilson, C.B. (1935). Parasitic copepods from the Dry Tortugas. Papers of the Tortugas Laboratory 29(12):329-347, pls. 1-6. (Publs. Carnegie Inst. Wash. 452). (9-xii-1935). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ding, D.S., Y.Y. Chen, C.H. Chen & Y.R. Cheng. (2021). The first occurrence of Paralebion elongatus (Siphonostomatoida: Caligidae) parasite on sharptooth lemon shark, Negaprion acutidens, in the West Pacific, with a full description of a chalimus-like stage. <em>Journal Fisheries Society Taiwan.</em> 48(3):161-175., available online at https://doi.org/10.29822/JFST.202109/SP_48(3).0005 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bernot, J.P, G.A. Boxshall, T.C. Kihara & P.M. Arbizu. (2025). An Updated Key to the Genera of Caligidae (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida.). <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 111(1):10-25., available online at https://doi.org/10.1645/24-97 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Paralebion elongatus)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (67 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 39553)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Paralebion elongatus)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (67 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 39553)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
