Caligus quadratus Shiino, 1954 
AphiaID: 349721

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Arthropoda > Crustacea > Maxillopoda > Copepoda > Neocopepoda > Podoplea > Siphonostomatoida > Caligidae > Caligus

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Caligus O.F. Müller, 1785
Sources		original description: Shiino, S.M.. 1954. Note on Caligus quadratus n. sp., a copepod parasitic on the fish, Neothynnus macropterus (T. & S.). Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries (= Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi) 20(1):26-29, fig. 1. [details] basis of record: Walter, Chad. The world of Copepods. [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Feedingtypes		adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Acanthistius pictus (Tschudi, 1846) [details] adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758 [details] adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Cymatogaster aggregatus Gibbons, 1854 accepted as Cymatogaster aggregata Gibbons, 1854 [details] adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Epinephelus coioides (Hamilton, 1822) [details] adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Lutjanus argentimaculatus (Forsskål, 1775) [details] adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Lutjanus russelli (Bleeker, 1849) accepted as Lutjanus russellii (Bleeker, 1849) [details] adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Paralabrax humeralis (Valenciennes, 1828) [details] adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Siganus guttatus (Bloch, 1787) [details] adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Thunnus albacores (Bonnaterre, 1788) accepted as Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) [details] adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Tylosurus melanotus (Bleeker, 1850) accepted as Tylosurus acus melanotus (Bleeker, 1850) [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Copepod Collection To ITIS
Notes		Distribution: Japan; Hawaii; Florida; Indian Ocean; Chile; Peru; Philippines; and Taiwan. [details] Habitat: oral and gill cavities [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:349721
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2008-07-15 14:41:49Z   created   Walter, T. Chad
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		Citation: Walter, T. Chad (2013). Caligus quadratus Shiino, 1954. In: Walter, T.C. & Boxshall, G. (2013). World of Copepods database. Accessed through: Walter, T.C. & Boxshall, G. (2013). World of Copepods database at http://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda../aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=349721 on 2013-05-20