MSBIAS taxon details
Asterocheres Boeck, 1859
135554 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135554)
accepted
Genus
Asterocheres lilljeborgi Boeck, 1859 (type by original designation)
Echinocheres Claus, 1889 · unaccepted (synonym)
- Species Asterocheres boeckii (Brady, 1880)
- Species Asterocheres echinicola (Norman, 1869)
- Species Asterocheres ellisi Hamond, 1968
- Species Asterocheres latus (Brady, 1872)
- Species Asterocheres lilljeborgi Boeck, 1859
- Species Asterocheres parvus Giesbrecht, 1899
- Species Asterocheres renaudi Canu, 1892
- Species Asterocheres simulans (Scott T., 1898)
- Species Asterocheres stimulans Giesbrecht, 1897
- Species Asterocheres suberitis Giesbrecht, 1897
- Species Asterocheres asterocheres (Sars G.O., 1915) accepted as Asterocheres lilljeborgi Boeck, 1859 (synonym)
- Species Asterocheres siphonatus Giesbrecht, 1897 accepted as Asterocheres thorelli (Sars G.O., 1879) accepted as Dermatomyzon nigripes (Brady & Robertson, 1880) represented as Dermatomyzon nigripes nigripes (Brady & Robertson, 1876) (synonym)
- Species Asterocheres thorelli (Sars G.O., 1879) accepted as Dermatomyzon nigripes (Brady & Robertson, 1880) represented as Dermatomyzon nigripes nigripes (Brady & Robertson, 1876) (synonym according to Sars, 1915)
- Species Asterocheres violaceus (Claus, 1889) accepted as Asterocheres echinicola (Norman, 1869) (synonym according to Bandera & Conradi, 2009)
- Species Asterocheres boecki (Brady, 1880) represented as Asterocheres boeckii (Brady, 1880)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Boeck, A. (1860). Tvende nye parasitiske Krebsdyr, Artotrogus orbicularis og Asterocheres Lilljeborgii. [Two new parasitic crustaceans, Artotrogus orbicularis and Asterocheres Lilljeborgii. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiana, Aar 1859 (published 1860); also reprint of same article, published 1860.</em> 2:171-182, pls. 1-2. [details] 
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Asterocheres Boeck, 1859. Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2025) Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135554 on 2025-06-06
The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2025). Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Asterocheres Boeck, 1859. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/MSBIAS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135554 on 2025-06-06
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2006-09-06 06:55:51Z
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Martinez, Olga
original description
Boeck, A. (1860). Tvende nye parasitiske Krebsdyr, Artotrogus orbicularis og Asterocheres Lilljeborgii. [Two new parasitic crustaceans, Artotrogus orbicularis and Asterocheres Lilljeborgii. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiana, Aar 1859 (published 1860); also reprint of same article, published 1860.</em> 2:171-182, pls. 1-2. [details]
original description (of Echinocheres Claus, 1889) Claus, C. (1889). Ueber neue oder wenig bekannte halbparasitische Copepoden insbesondere der Lichomolgiden- und Ascomyzontiden-Gruppe. [On new or little known hemiparasitic copepods, especially of the lichomolgid and ascomyzontid groups.]. <em>Arbeiten des Zoologischen Institut der Universitat Wien.</em> 8(3):327-370, pls. [details]
basis of record Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 252-268 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Boxshall, G.A. (1990). The skeletomusculature of siphonostomatoid copepods, with an analysis of adaptive radiation in structure of the oral cone. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 328(1246):167-212. [details] Available for editors
additional source Ummerkutty, A.N.P. (1966). Studies on Indian copepods. 13. Brief notes on the asterocherid copepods obtained from the south east coast of India with description of Indomyzon qasimi n. gen., n. sp. and a discussion of the family Asterocheridae. Crustaceana, Leiden 11(1):17-32, figs. 1-29. (4-viii-1966) [details] Available for editors
original description (of Echinocheres Claus, 1889) Claus, C. (1889). Ueber neue oder wenig bekannte halbparasitische Copepoden insbesondere der Lichomolgiden- und Ascomyzontiden-Gruppe. [On new or little known hemiparasitic copepods, especially of the lichomolgid and ascomyzontid groups.]. <em>Arbeiten des Zoologischen Institut der Universitat Wien.</em> 8(3):327-370, pls. [details]
basis of record Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 252-268 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Boxshall, G.A. (1990). The skeletomusculature of siphonostomatoid copepods, with an analysis of adaptive radiation in structure of the oral cone. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 328(1246):167-212. [details] Available for editors
additional source Ummerkutty, A.N.P. (1966). Studies on Indian copepods. 13. Brief notes on the asterocherid copepods obtained from the south east coast of India with description of Indomyzon qasimi n. gen., n. sp. and a discussion of the family Asterocheridae. Crustaceana, Leiden 11(1):17-32, figs. 1-29. (4-viii-1966) [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
3x5 C.B. Wilson Taxonomic Card - Asterocheres 
3x5 C.B. Wilson Taxonomic Card - Echinocheres (from synonym Echinocheres Claus, 1889)
3x5 J.S. Ho Taxonomic Card - Asterocheres
3x5 J.S. Ho Taxonomic Card - Echinocheres (from synonym Echinocheres Claus, 1889)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Asterocheres)
To Genbank
To ITIS
3x5 C.B. Wilson Taxonomic Card - Echinocheres
(from synonym Echinocheres Claus, 1889)3x5 J.S. Ho Taxonomic Card - Asterocheres
3x5 J.S. Ho Taxonomic Card - Echinocheres
(from synonym Echinocheres Claus, 1889)To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Asterocheres)
To Genbank
To ITIS
