WoRMS taxon details
Lernentoma asellina (Linnaeus, 1758)
128770 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:128770)
accepted
Species
Acanthochondria gurnardi (Olsson, 1869) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Chondracanthus gurnardi Olsson, 1869 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Chondracanthus triglae Guérin-Méneville, 1837 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Lernaea asellina Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Lernentoma asellinum (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Lernentoma gurnardi (Olsson, 1868) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Lernentoma trigla Blainville, 1822 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Lernentoma triglae Blainville, 1822 · unaccepted (mis spelled species name)
Medesicaste asellinum (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Oralien asellinus (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Oralien triglae (Blainville, 1822) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Lernaea asellina Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors 
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Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2026). World of Copepods Database. Lernentoma asellina (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=128770 on 2026-09-19
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Lernentoma triglae Blainville, 1822) Blainville, H.M.D. de. (1822). Mémoire sur les Lernées (Lernaea, Lin.). Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts, Paris 95:372-380, 437-447, pl. 1. [details] 
original description (of Lernentoma trigla Blainville, 1822) Blainville, H.M.D. de. (1822). Mémoire sur les Lernées (Lernaea, Lin.). Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts, Paris 95:372-380, 437-447, pl. 1.
page(s): 441, fig. 12 [details]
original description (of Oralien triglae (Blainville, 1822)) Blainville, H.M.D. de. (1822). Mémoire sur les Lernées (Lernaea, Lin.). Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts, Paris 95:372-380, 437-447, pl. 1. [details]
original description (of Chondracanthus triglae Guérin-Méneville, 1837) Guérin-Méneville, F.E. (1829 - 1843). Iconographie du régne animal de G. Cuvier. [Representation d'apres nature de l'une des especes les plus remarquables et souvent non encore figurees, de chaque genre d'animaux. [Iconography of the animal kingdom by G. Cuvier.]. <em>Planches des Animaux invertébrés. Zoophytes. 2. Crustacées. A. Londres publisher. (Publication began in 1829).</em> :1-48, [ Copepods pl. 35, This plate was published in 1837.]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27813845 [details]
original description (of Lernaea asellina Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Chondracanthus gurnardi Olsson, 1869) Olsson, P. (1869). Prodromus Faunae Copepodorum Parasitantium Scandinaviae. [Prodrome of the Copepod Parasitic Fauna of Scandinavia.]. <em>Acta Universitatis Lundensis (Acta Universitets Lunds).</em> 5(III)(8):1-49, pls. 1-2.
page(s): 31 [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]
new combination reference Blainville, H.M.D. de. (1822). Mémoire sur les Lernées (Lernaea, Lin.). Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts, Paris 95:372-380, 437-447, pl. 1. [details]
original description (of Lernentoma trigla Blainville, 1822) Blainville, H.M.D. de. (1822). Mémoire sur les Lernées (Lernaea, Lin.). Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts, Paris 95:372-380, 437-447, pl. 1.
page(s): 441, fig. 12 [details]
original description (of Oralien triglae (Blainville, 1822)) Blainville, H.M.D. de. (1822). Mémoire sur les Lernées (Lernaea, Lin.). Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts, Paris 95:372-380, 437-447, pl. 1. [details]
original description (of Chondracanthus triglae Guérin-Méneville, 1837) Guérin-Méneville, F.E. (1829 - 1843). Iconographie du régne animal de G. Cuvier. [Representation d'apres nature de l'une des especes les plus remarquables et souvent non encore figurees, de chaque genre d'animaux. [Iconography of the animal kingdom by G. Cuvier.]. <em>Planches des Animaux invertébrés. Zoophytes. 2. Crustacées. A. Londres publisher. (Publication began in 1829).</em> :1-48, [ Copepods pl. 35, This plate was published in 1837.]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27813845 [details]
original description (of Lernaea asellina Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Chondracanthus gurnardi Olsson, 1869) Olsson, P. (1869). Prodromus Faunae Copepodorum Parasitantium Scandinaviae. [Prodrome of the Copepod Parasitic Fauna of Scandinavia.]. <em>Acta Universitatis Lundensis (Acta Universitets Lunds).</em> 5(III)(8):1-49, pls. 1-2.
page(s): 31 [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]
new combination reference Blainville, H.M.D. de. (1822). Mémoire sur les Lernées (Lernaea, Lin.). Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts, Paris 95:372-380, 437-447, pl. 1. [details]
Other
additional source
Ho, J.S. (1970). Revision of the genera of the Chondracanthidae, a copepod family parasitic on marine fishes. Beaufortia 17(229):105-218, figs. 1-296. (28-iv-1970) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. <em>The Ray Society, London.</em> 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Markevich, A.P. (1956). Paraziticheskie veslonogie ryb SSSR. [Parasitic copepods of fishes of the USSR.]. <em>Akademiya Nauk Ukraine SSR, Institut Zoology, Kiev.</em> 259 pp. figs. 1-153. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ostergaard, P. (2003). Catalogue of genera and species of the family Chondracanthidae Milne Edwards, 1840 (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida) with notes on morphology. Systematic Parasitology 55(2): 135-150, available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024054902853 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Zubchenko, A.V. (1993). Vertikal'nyye zony i formatsii parazitofauny glubokovodnykh ryb pribrezhnykh rayonov Severnoy Atlantiki. [Vertical zones and formations of the parasitic fauna in deepwater fishes from the off-shore areas of the North Atlantiс. ]. <em>In: Vorobjova, N.K., S.S. Drobysheva, A.V. Zubchenko, A.B. Karasev, P.I. Savvatimsky & V.K. Mitenev (Eds.). Parasitological Studies of Fish in the Northern Basin: Selected Papers/PINRO. Murmansk, Russia.</em> :39-60. [In Russian]. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. <em>The Ray Society, London.</em> 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Markevich, A.P. (1956). Paraziticheskie veslonogie ryb SSSR. [Parasitic copepods of fishes of the USSR.]. <em>Akademiya Nauk Ukraine SSR, Institut Zoology, Kiev.</em> 259 pp. figs. 1-153. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ostergaard, P. (2003). Catalogue of genera and species of the family Chondracanthidae Milne Edwards, 1840 (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida) with notes on morphology. Systematic Parasitology 55(2): 135-150, available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024054902853 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Zubchenko, A.V. (1993). Vertikal'nyye zony i formatsii parazitofauny glubokovodnykh ryb pribrezhnykh rayonov Severnoy Atlantiki. [Vertical zones and formations of the parasitic fauna in deepwater fishes from the off-shore areas of the North Atlantiс. ]. <em>In: Vorobjova, N.K., S.S. Drobysheva, A.V. Zubchenko, A.B. Karasev, P.I. Savvatimsky & V.K. Mitenev (Eds.). Parasitological Studies of Fish in the Northern Basin: Selected Papers/PINRO. Murmansk, Russia.</em> :39-60. [In Russian]. [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Oralien asellinus (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Oralien triglae (Blainville, 1822))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lernentoma asellina)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Lernentoma asellinum (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Oralien triglae (Blainville, 1822))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lernentoma asellina)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Lernentoma asellinum (Linnaeus, 1758))
