Caligus tenuis
creator: Boxshall, Geoff
creator: Walter, T. Chad
date: 2026-08-01
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Caligus tenuis (Beneden, 1852)
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2026). World of Copepods Database. Caligus tenuis (Beneden, 1852). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=933782 on 2026-08-01
created: 2017-01-10T17:33:36Z
modified: 2019-07-05T20:51:56Z
replaces: 349568
replaces: 360531
replaces: 355494
rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Caligus tenuis (Beneden, 1852)
class: Copepoda
family: Caligidae
genus: Caligus
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Bassett-Smith, P.W. (1898). Some new parasitic Copepoda found on fish at Bombay. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7)1:1-17, pls. 1-7. (i-1898)
name published in: Beneden, P.J. van. (1852). Note sur un nouveau genre de Crustacé parasite de la famille des Peltocéphales. [Note on a new genus of parasitic Crustacean of the Caligidae family.]. Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique. 19(3):462-467, pl. 1.
name published in year: 1898
name published in year: 1852
order: Siphonostomatoida
parent name usage ID: 135566
phylum: Arthropoda
scientific name authorship: (Beneden, 1852)
specific epithet: tenuis
taxon rank: Species
taxonomic status: accepted