WoRMS taxon details
Salmincola californiensis (Dana, 1852)
359919 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:359919)
accepted
Species
Achtheres carpenteri Packard, 1874 · unaccepted (synonymy)
Lernaeopoda beani Wilson C.B., 1908 · unaccepted (synonymy)
Lernaeopoda californiensis Dana, 1852-1853 · unaccepted (synonymy)
Lernaeopoda falculata Wilson C.B., 1908 · unaccepted (synonymy)
Salmincola beani (Wilson C.B., 1908) · unaccepted (synonymy)
Salmincola carpenteri (Packard, 1874) · unaccepted (synonymy)
Salmincola falculata (Wilson C.B., 1908) · unaccepted (synonym)
Salmincola lata Markevich, 1940 · unaccepted (probable synonym)
Salmincola yaname Hoshina & Suenaga, 1954 · unaccepted (synonymy)
(of Lernaeopoda californiensis Dana, 1852-1853) Dana, J.D. (1853-1855). Crustacea. Part II. <em>In: United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes. U. S. N., C. Sherman Printer, Philadelphia.</em> 14: 691-1618. [1855, folio atlas pls. 1-96.]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40412910 [details] 
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Salmincola californiensis (Dana, 1852). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=359919 on 2025-10-12
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original description
(of Salmincola yaname Hoshina & Suenaga, 1954) Hoshina, T. & G. Suenaga. (1954). On a new species of parasitic copepods from Yamane (salmonoid fish) of Japan. Journal of the Tokyo University of Fisheries 41:75-78, figs. 1-4, pl. 1. [details] Available for editors 
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original description (of Lernaeopoda californiensis Dana, 1852-1853) Dana, J.D. (1853-1855). Crustacea. Part II. <em>In: United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes. U. S. N., C. Sherman Printer, Philadelphia.</em> 14: 691-1618. [1855, folio atlas pls. 1-96.]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40412910 [details]
original description (of Achtheres carpenteri Packard, 1874) Packard, A.S., Jr. (1874). Description of a lernaean crustacean (Achtheres carpenteri), obtained by Lieut. W.L. Carpenter, in 1873, in Colorado. Reports of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 7:612, fig. 1. [details]
original description (of Lernaeopoda beani Wilson C.B., 1908) Wilson, C.B. (1908). North American parasitic copepods: a list of those found upon the fishes of the Pacific coast, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 35(1652):431-481, pls. 66-83. (10-xii-1908). [details]
original description (of Lernaeopoda falculata Wilson C.B., 1908) Wilson, C.B. (1908). North American parasitic copepods: a list of those found upon the fishes of the Pacific coast, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 35(1652):431-481, pls. 66-83. (10-xii-1908). [details]
original description (of Salmincola lata Markevich, 1940) Markevich, A.P. (1940). Novi vidi parazitichnikh Copepoda. Neue Arten parasitischer Copepoden. [New species of parasitic copepods.]. <em>Dopovidi Akademiyi Nauk Ukrayins'koiy RSR, Kiev.</em> 1940(11):11-21, figs. 1-9. (16-xi-1940, Ukrainian and German.). [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]original description (of Lernaeopoda californiensis Dana, 1852-1853) Dana, J.D. (1853-1855). Crustacea. Part II. <em>In: United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes. U. S. N., C. Sherman Printer, Philadelphia.</em> 14: 691-1618. [1855, folio atlas pls. 1-96.]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40412910 [details]
original description (of Achtheres carpenteri Packard, 1874) Packard, A.S., Jr. (1874). Description of a lernaean crustacean (Achtheres carpenteri), obtained by Lieut. W.L. Carpenter, in 1873, in Colorado. Reports of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 7:612, fig. 1. [details]
original description (of Lernaeopoda beani Wilson C.B., 1908) Wilson, C.B. (1908). North American parasitic copepods: a list of those found upon the fishes of the Pacific coast, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 35(1652):431-481, pls. 66-83. (10-xii-1908). [details]
original description (of Lernaeopoda falculata Wilson C.B., 1908) Wilson, C.B. (1908). North American parasitic copepods: a list of those found upon the fishes of the Pacific coast, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 35(1652):431-481, pls. 66-83. (10-xii-1908). [details]
original description (of Salmincola lata Markevich, 1940) Markevich, A.P. (1940). Novi vidi parazitichnikh Copepoda. Neue Arten parasitischer Copepoden. [New species of parasitic copepods.]. <em>Dopovidi Akademiyi Nauk Ukrayins'koiy RSR, Kiev.</em> 1940(11):11-21, figs. 1-9. (16-xi-1940, Ukrainian and German.). [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Roberts, R.J., K.A. Johnson & M.T. Casten. (2004). Control of Salmincola californiensis (Copepoda: Lernaeapodidae) in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum): a clinical and histopathological study. <em>Journal of Fish Diseases.</em> 27(2):73-79., available online at https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2761.2003.00508.x [details]
additional source Barndt, S. & J. Stone. (2003). Infestation of Salmincola californiensis (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae) in Wild Coho Salmon, Steelhead, and Coastal Cutthroat Trout Juveniles in a Small Columbia River Tributary. <em>Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.</em> 132(5): 1027-1032., available online at https://doi.org/10.1577/t02-122 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Black, G.A. (1982). Gills as an attachment site for Salmincola edwardsii (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae). Journal of Parasitology 68(6):1172-1173, tab. 1. (xii-1982) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Chigbu, P. (2001). Occurrence and distribution of Salmincola californiensis (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae) on juvenile sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in Lake Washington. <em>Journal of Freshwater Ecology.</em> 16(4): 615-620., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/02705060.2001.9663853 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Buttner, J.K. & R.C. Heidinger. (1979). First reported occurrence of Salmincola californiensis (Dana, 1852) (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae) east of the Rocky Mountains. Journal of Parasitology 65(2):320. (iv-1979) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Gusev, A.V. (1987). Class Crustacea Lamarck, 1801. <em>In: Bauer, O.N. (ed.). Opredelitel' parazitov presnovodnykh ryb SSSR. [Key to the Parasites of Freshwater Fishes of the USSR.] Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR, Zoologicheskii Instituta SSSR. Nauka, Leningrad.</em> 3(149):378-432. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hoshina, T. & T. Nishimura. (1976). On a parasitic Copepoda, Salmincola californiensis found on a salmonid fish, yamame, Oncorhynchus masou. Fish Pathology 11:153-157. (In Japanese; English abstract.) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Johnson, K.A. & J.A. Heindel. (2001). Efficacy of manual removal and ivermectin gavage for control of Salmincola californiensis (Wilson) infestation of chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum), captive broodstocks. <em>Journal of Fish Diseases.</em> 24(4):197-203., available online at https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2761.2001.00279.x [details]
additional source Kabata, Z. & B. Cousens. (1973). Life cycle of Salmincola californiensis (Dana 1852) (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae). Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 30(7):881-903, figs. 1-88. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Modin, J.C. & T.M. Veek. (2002). Biological control of the parasitic copepod Salmincola californiensis in a commercial trout hatchery on the lower Merced River, California. North American Journal of Aquaculture 64 (2): 122-128. [details]
additional source Pawaputanon, K. (1981). Effects of Parasitic Copepod, Salmincola californiensis (Dana, 1852) on Juvenile Sockeye Salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum). <em>Ph.D. Thesis, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.</em> 181 pp., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2429/22358 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sutherland, D.R. & D.D. Wittrock. (1985). The effects of Salmincola californiensis (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae) on the gills of farm-raised rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri. Canadian Journal of Zoology 63(12):2893-2901, figs. 1-19, tabs. 1-2. (xii-1985, French summary). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Wilson, C.B. (1915). North American parasitic copepods belonging to the Lernaeopodidae, with a revision of the entire family. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47(2063): 565-729, pls. 25-56, figs. 1-15. (6-iii-1915). [details]
additional source Wilson, C.B. (1916). Copepod parasites of fresh-water fishes and their economic relations to mussel glochidia. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries 34(824):333-374, pls. 60-74. (28-vi-1916) [details]
additional source Murphy, C.A., W. Gerth, K. Pauk, P. Konstantinidis & I. Arismendi. (2020). Hidng in Plain Sight: Historical Fish Collections Aid Contemporary Parasite Research. <em>Fisheries.</em> 45(5):263-270. May 2020., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10411 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Cairns, A.A. (1965). The life cycle of Pseudocalanus minutus (Kroyer) (Copepoda, Calanoida), in Tanquary Fjord, Ellesmere Island. <em>M.Sc. Thesis, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.</em> 56 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Cousens, N.B.F. (1977). Structure and function of the bulla, second maxillae and maxillary ducts of Salmincola californiensis Dana, 1852 (Copepoda:Lernaeopodidae). <em>M.Sc. Thesis, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.</em> [details]
additional source Nagasawa, K. (2023). Live Freshwater Parasite, Salmincola californiensis (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae), on the Gills of an Ocean- migrating Steelhead Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and Discussion on the Origin and Survival of the Parasite at Sea. <em>Zoological Science.</em> 40(5): 360-366, , Aug 2023., available online at https://doi.org/10.2108/zs230031 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Shedko, M.B., S.V. Shedko & S.A. Vinogradov. (2005). Fauna presnovodnyh parazitičeskih kopepod semejstva Lernaeopodidae (Crustacea: Copepoda) ryb ostrova Sahalin. [Fauna of the freshwater parasitic copepods of the family Lernaeopodidae (Crustacea: Copepoda) of fishes from Sakhalin Island.]. <em>In: Bogatov V.V., V.Y. Barkalov, A.S. Lelef, E.A. Makarchenko & S.Y. Storozhenko (Eds.) Rastitel′nyj i životnyj mir ostrova Sahalin (Materialy Meždunarodnogo sahalinskogo proekta). Tom 2. [Flora and fauna of Sakhalin Island (Materials of International Sakhalin Island Project). Part 2.] Dalnauka, Vladivostok, Russia.</em> :52–63. [In Russian with English abstract]. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sokolov, S.G., M.B. Shedko, E.N. Protasov & E.V. Frolov. (2012). Parazity ryb vnutriennyh vodoemov ostrova Sahalin. [Parasites of the inland water fishes of Sakhalin Island.]. <em>In: Bogatov V.V., V.Y. Barkalov, A.S. Lelef, E.A. Makarchenko, S.Y. Storozhenko (Eds.) Rastitel′nyj i životnyj mir ostrovov severo-zapadnoj časti Tihogo okeana (Materialy Meždunarodnogo kurilskogo i Meždunarodnogo sahalinskogo proektov). [Flora and fauna of North-West Pacific islands (Materials of International Kuril Island and International Sakhalin Island Projects).] Dalnauka, Vladivostok. [.</em> :179– 216. In Russian with English abstract. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Antonelli, K., C. Murphy, A. Pollock & T. Arismendi. (2025). Environmental conditions influencing the abundance of the salmonid ectoparasite Salmincola californiensis across upper Willamette River Reservoirs, Oregon. <em>PeerJ.</em> 13(10): Apr 2025., available online at https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19228 [details]
additional source Barndt, S. & J. Stone. (2003). Infestation of Salmincola californiensis (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae) in Wild Coho Salmon, Steelhead, and Coastal Cutthroat Trout Juveniles in a Small Columbia River Tributary. <em>Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.</em> 132(5): 1027-1032., available online at https://doi.org/10.1577/t02-122 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Black, G.A. (1982). Gills as an attachment site for Salmincola edwardsii (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae). Journal of Parasitology 68(6):1172-1173, tab. 1. (xii-1982) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Chigbu, P. (2001). Occurrence and distribution of Salmincola californiensis (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae) on juvenile sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in Lake Washington. <em>Journal of Freshwater Ecology.</em> 16(4): 615-620., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/02705060.2001.9663853 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Buttner, J.K. & R.C. Heidinger. (1979). First reported occurrence of Salmincola californiensis (Dana, 1852) (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae) east of the Rocky Mountains. Journal of Parasitology 65(2):320. (iv-1979) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Gusev, A.V. (1987). Class Crustacea Lamarck, 1801. <em>In: Bauer, O.N. (ed.). Opredelitel' parazitov presnovodnykh ryb SSSR. [Key to the Parasites of Freshwater Fishes of the USSR.] Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR, Zoologicheskii Instituta SSSR. Nauka, Leningrad.</em> 3(149):378-432. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Hoshina, T. & T. Nishimura. (1976). On a parasitic Copepoda, Salmincola californiensis found on a salmonid fish, yamame, Oncorhynchus masou. Fish Pathology 11:153-157. (In Japanese; English abstract.) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Johnson, K.A. & J.A. Heindel. (2001). Efficacy of manual removal and ivermectin gavage for control of Salmincola californiensis (Wilson) infestation of chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum), captive broodstocks. <em>Journal of Fish Diseases.</em> 24(4):197-203., available online at https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2761.2001.00279.x [details]
additional source Kabata, Z. & B. Cousens. (1973). Life cycle of Salmincola californiensis (Dana 1852) (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae). Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 30(7):881-903, figs. 1-88. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Modin, J.C. & T.M. Veek. (2002). Biological control of the parasitic copepod Salmincola californiensis in a commercial trout hatchery on the lower Merced River, California. North American Journal of Aquaculture 64 (2): 122-128. [details]
additional source Pawaputanon, K. (1981). Effects of Parasitic Copepod, Salmincola californiensis (Dana, 1852) on Juvenile Sockeye Salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum). <em>Ph.D. Thesis, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.</em> 181 pp., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2429/22358 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sutherland, D.R. & D.D. Wittrock. (1985). The effects of Salmincola californiensis (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae) on the gills of farm-raised rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri. Canadian Journal of Zoology 63(12):2893-2901, figs. 1-19, tabs. 1-2. (xii-1985, French summary). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Wilson, C.B. (1915). North American parasitic copepods belonging to the Lernaeopodidae, with a revision of the entire family. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47(2063): 565-729, pls. 25-56, figs. 1-15. (6-iii-1915). [details]
additional source Wilson, C.B. (1916). Copepod parasites of fresh-water fishes and their economic relations to mussel glochidia. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries 34(824):333-374, pls. 60-74. (28-vi-1916) [details]
additional source Murphy, C.A., W. Gerth, K. Pauk, P. Konstantinidis & I. Arismendi. (2020). Hidng in Plain Sight: Historical Fish Collections Aid Contemporary Parasite Research. <em>Fisheries.</em> 45(5):263-270. May 2020., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10411 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Cairns, A.A. (1965). The life cycle of Pseudocalanus minutus (Kroyer) (Copepoda, Calanoida), in Tanquary Fjord, Ellesmere Island. <em>M.Sc. Thesis, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.</em> 56 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Cousens, N.B.F. (1977). Structure and function of the bulla, second maxillae and maxillary ducts of Salmincola californiensis Dana, 1852 (Copepoda:Lernaeopodidae). <em>M.Sc. Thesis, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.</em> [details]
additional source Nagasawa, K. (2023). Live Freshwater Parasite, Salmincola californiensis (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae), on the Gills of an Ocean- migrating Steelhead Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and Discussion on the Origin and Survival of the Parasite at Sea. <em>Zoological Science.</em> 40(5): 360-366, , Aug 2023., available online at https://doi.org/10.2108/zs230031 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Shedko, M.B., S.V. Shedko & S.A. Vinogradov. (2005). Fauna presnovodnyh parazitičeskih kopepod semejstva Lernaeopodidae (Crustacea: Copepoda) ryb ostrova Sahalin. [Fauna of the freshwater parasitic copepods of the family Lernaeopodidae (Crustacea: Copepoda) of fishes from Sakhalin Island.]. <em>In: Bogatov V.V., V.Y. Barkalov, A.S. Lelef, E.A. Makarchenko & S.Y. Storozhenko (Eds.) Rastitel′nyj i životnyj mir ostrova Sahalin (Materialy Meždunarodnogo sahalinskogo proekta). Tom 2. [Flora and fauna of Sakhalin Island (Materials of International Sakhalin Island Project). Part 2.] Dalnauka, Vladivostok, Russia.</em> :52–63. [In Russian with English abstract]. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sokolov, S.G., M.B. Shedko, E.N. Protasov & E.V. Frolov. (2012). Parazity ryb vnutriennyh vodoemov ostrova Sahalin. [Parasites of the inland water fishes of Sakhalin Island.]. <em>In: Bogatov V.V., V.Y. Barkalov, A.S. Lelef, E.A. Makarchenko, S.Y. Storozhenko (Eds.) Rastitel′nyj i životnyj mir ostrovov severo-zapadnoj časti Tihogo okeana (Materialy Meždunarodnogo kurilskogo i Meždunarodnogo sahalinskogo proektov). [Flora and fauna of North-West Pacific islands (Materials of International Kuril Island and International Sakhalin Island Projects).] Dalnauka, Vladivostok. [.</em> :179– 216. In Russian with English abstract. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Antonelli, K., C. Murphy, A. Pollock & T. Arismendi. (2025). Environmental conditions influencing the abundance of the salmonid ectoparasite Salmincola californiensis across upper Willamette River Reservoirs, Oregon. <em>PeerJ.</em> 13(10): Apr 2025., available online at https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19228 [details]
To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Lernaeopoda beani Wilson C.B., 1908)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Salmincola beani (Wilson C.B., 1908))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Salmincola falculata (Wilson C.B., 1908))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Salmincola californiensis)
To GenBank (30 nucleotides; 24 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Salmincola beani (Wilson C.B., 1908))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Lernaeopoda beani Wilson C.B., 1908)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Salmincola falculata (Wilson C.B., 1908))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records) (from synonym Salmincola carpenteri (Packard, 1874))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (33 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Lernaeopoda beani Wilson C.B., 1908)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Salmincola beani (Wilson C.B., 1908))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Salmincola falculata (Wilson C.B., 1908))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Salmincola californiensis)
To GenBank (30 nucleotides; 24 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Salmincola beani (Wilson C.B., 1908))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Lernaeopoda beani Wilson C.B., 1908)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Salmincola falculata (Wilson C.B., 1908))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records) (from synonym Salmincola carpenteri (Packard, 1874))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (33 records)
To ITIS
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