WoRMS taxon details
Thersitina gasterostei (Pagenstecher, 1861)
128832 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:128832)
accepted
Species
Ergasilus biuncinatus Gadd, 1901 · unaccepted (synonym)
Ergasilus gasterostei (Pagenstecher, 1861) · unaccepted (synonym)
Limnoncaea diuncata Kokubo, 1914 · unaccepted (synonym)
Thersites gasterostei Pagenstecher, 1861 · unaccepted (synonym)
Thersitina biuncinata (Gadd, 1901) · unaccepted
(of Thersites gasterostei Pagenstecher, 1861) Pagenstecher, H.A. (1861). Thersites gasterostei und Leptodora nicothoae. Eine neue Gattung parasitischer Crustaceen und eine neue Nematodenart. [Thersites gasterostei and Leptodora nicothoae. A new genus of parasitic crustaceans and a new nematode species.]. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 27(1):118-126, pl.6. [details] 
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary; middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands)
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary; middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands) [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2026). World of Copepods Database. Thersitina gasterostei (Pagenstecher, 1861). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=128832 on 2026-01-13
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Ergasilus biuncinatus Gadd, 1901) Gadd, P. (1901). Nagra förut obeskrifna, parasitisk levande Copepoder. (Uber einige neue parasitische Copepoden).[On some new parasitic copepods]. <em>Meddelanden af Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica.</em> 27: 98-100. [details]
original description (of Limnoncaea diuncata Kokubo, 1914) Kokubo, S. (1914). A new genus and three new species of the family Oncaeidae. <em>Zoological Magazine (Dobutsugaku Zasshi), Tokyo.</em> 26(314): 533-541, 7pls. [details]
original description (of Thersites gasterostei Pagenstecher, 1861) Pagenstecher, H.A. (1861). Thersites gasterostei und Leptodora nicothoae. Eine neue Gattung parasitischer Crustaceen und eine neue Nematodenart. [Thersites gasterostei and Leptodora nicothoae. A new genus of parasitic crustaceans and a new nematode species.]. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 27(1):118-126, pl.6. [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]
original description (of Limnoncaea diuncata Kokubo, 1914) Kokubo, S. (1914). A new genus and three new species of the family Oncaeidae. <em>Zoological Magazine (Dobutsugaku Zasshi), Tokyo.</em> 26(314): 533-541, 7pls. [details]
original description (of Thersites gasterostei Pagenstecher, 1861) Pagenstecher, H.A. (1861). Thersites gasterostei und Leptodora nicothoae. Eine neue Gattung parasitischer Crustaceen und eine neue Nematodenart. [Thersites gasterostei and Leptodora nicothoae. A new genus of parasitic crustaceans and a new nematode species.]. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 27(1):118-126, pl.6. [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]
Other
additional source
Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors 
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additional source Alston, S. & J.W. Lewis. (1994). The ergasilid parasites (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida) of British freshwater fish. In: Pike, A.W. & J.W. Lewis (eds.). Parasitic Diseases of Fish. Samara Publishing Limited, Tresaith, Wales. 251pp. :171-188. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Capart, A. (1944). Notes sur les Copépodes parasites. II. A propos de quatres Copépodes parasites d'eau douce, rares ou nouveaux pour la Belgique. [Notes on Parasitic Copepods. II. About four freshwater parasitic Copepods, rare or new to Belgium.]. <em>Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de la Belgique.</em> 20(22):1-4, fig. 1. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Donoghue, S. (1986). A note on the presence on the surface of the parasitic copepod Thersitina gasterostei Pagenstecher. Journal of Fish Diseases, Oxford, U.K. 9(4):349-351. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Donoghue, S. (1986). Thersitina gasterostei (Pagenstecher, 1861) (Copepoda: Ergasilidae) infecting the stickleback Pungitius pungitius L. at Chalk Marshes, Gravesend, Kent. <em>Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée.</em> 61(6):673-682. (French summary.) [online Aug 2016]. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Donoghue, S. (1989). Histopathology of ten-spined stickleback, Pungitius pungitius L., infected by the parasitic copepod Thersitina gasterostei (Pagenstecher) with observations on the contents of the Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists 9(1):19-21. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Gurney, R. (1913). Some notes on the parasitic copepod Thersitina gasterostei, Pagenstecher. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)12:415-424, pls. 10-13. (xi-1913) [details]
additional source Gurney, R. (1933). Some notes on the parasitic copepod Thersitina gasterostei Pagenstecher. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(12):415-424. [details]
additional source Gusev, A.V. (1951). Parazitičeskie Copepoda s nekotoryh morskih ryb. [Parasitic Copepoda of some marine fishes.]. <em>Parazitičeskij sbornik Zoologičeskogo instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR.</em> 13: 394-463, figs. 1-37. (Russian). [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 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 Lang, K. (1949). On some Swedish marine semi-parasitic and parasitic copepods. <em>Arkiv för Zoologi.</em> (A)42(22):1-10, figs. 1-15. (28-ix-1949). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Markevich, A.P. (1937). Copepoda parasitica prisnikh vod SRSR. Copepoda parasitica der Binnengewässer der USSR. [Copepods parasitic on freshwater fishes of the USSR.]. <em>Institut Zoologii i Biologii, Akademiya Nauk Ukrainii SSR, Kiev.</em> :1-223, figs. 1-10, pls. 1-27. [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 Ohtsuka, S., J.S. Ho, K. Nagasawa, J. Morozinska-Gogol & W. Piasecki. (2004). The identity of Limnoncaea diuncata Kokubo, 1914 (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida) from Hokkaido, Japan, with the relegation of Diergasilus Do, 1981 to a junior synonym of Thersitina Norman, 1905. Systematic Parasitology 57(1):35-44. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Rolbiecki, L. (2005). Correlation between the presence of Thersitina gasterostei (Pagenstecher, 1861) copepods and the body length of the stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in the Polish part of the Visula lagoon. <em>In: Buczek, A. & C. Blaszak (eds.). Arthropods - a variety of forms and interactions. Wyd. Koliber, Lublin.</em> :195-201. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Savoie, V.L. (2004). Taxonomy and ecology of Ergasilus sp. and Thersitina gasterostei (Copepoda) parasitizing gasterosteiforms along the coasts of the Atlantic Canadian Provinces. M.Sc. Thesis, Saint MaryÆs University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 77 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sadler, K. (1977). Host parasite relationship of two copepod parasites of freshwater fishes (Lernaea cyprinacea and Thersitina gasterostei) and of the parasites of the three-spined sticklebacks in Wintersett Reservoir. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K. [details]
additional source Røen, U. (1994). Studies on freshwater Entomostraca in Greenland VI. The Entomostraca of the Kap Farvel Area, southernmost Greenland. <em>Meddelelser om Gronland Bioscience.</em> 41:1-21. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Dementev, M.S. (2015). Predvaritel'nyy obzor vodnykh bespozvonochnykh Tsentral'nogo Predkavkaz'ya (Severnyy Kavkaz) i prilegayushchikh gornykh territoriy. [Preliminary summary aquatic invertebrates in central Ciscaucasia (Nort Caucasus region) and adjacent mountain areas. ]. <em>Advances in Current Natural Sciences.</em> 6:102-118. [In Russian; English abstract]. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
[request]additional source Alston, S. & J.W. Lewis. (1994). The ergasilid parasites (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida) of British freshwater fish. In: Pike, A.W. & J.W. Lewis (eds.). Parasitic Diseases of Fish. Samara Publishing Limited, Tresaith, Wales. 251pp. :171-188. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Capart, A. (1944). Notes sur les Copépodes parasites. II. A propos de quatres Copépodes parasites d'eau douce, rares ou nouveaux pour la Belgique. [Notes on Parasitic Copepods. II. About four freshwater parasitic Copepods, rare or new to Belgium.]. <em>Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de la Belgique.</em> 20(22):1-4, fig. 1. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Donoghue, S. (1986). A note on the presence on the surface of the parasitic copepod Thersitina gasterostei Pagenstecher. Journal of Fish Diseases, Oxford, U.K. 9(4):349-351. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Donoghue, S. (1986). Thersitina gasterostei (Pagenstecher, 1861) (Copepoda: Ergasilidae) infecting the stickleback Pungitius pungitius L. at Chalk Marshes, Gravesend, Kent. <em>Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée.</em> 61(6):673-682. (French summary.) [online Aug 2016]. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Donoghue, S. (1989). Histopathology of ten-spined stickleback, Pungitius pungitius L., infected by the parasitic copepod Thersitina gasterostei (Pagenstecher) with observations on the contents of the Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists 9(1):19-21. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Gurney, R. (1913). Some notes on the parasitic copepod Thersitina gasterostei, Pagenstecher. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)12:415-424, pls. 10-13. (xi-1913) [details]
additional source Gurney, R. (1933). Some notes on the parasitic copepod Thersitina gasterostei Pagenstecher. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(12):415-424. [details]
additional source Gusev, A.V. (1951). Parazitičeskie Copepoda s nekotoryh morskih ryb. [Parasitic Copepoda of some marine fishes.]. <em>Parazitičeskij sbornik Zoologičeskogo instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR.</em> 13: 394-463, figs. 1-37. (Russian). [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 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 Lang, K. (1949). On some Swedish marine semi-parasitic and parasitic copepods. <em>Arkiv för Zoologi.</em> (A)42(22):1-10, figs. 1-15. (28-ix-1949). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Markevich, A.P. (1937). Copepoda parasitica prisnikh vod SRSR. Copepoda parasitica der Binnengewässer der USSR. [Copepods parasitic on freshwater fishes of the USSR.]. <em>Institut Zoologii i Biologii, Akademiya Nauk Ukrainii SSR, Kiev.</em> :1-223, figs. 1-10, pls. 1-27. [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 Ohtsuka, S., J.S. Ho, K. Nagasawa, J. Morozinska-Gogol & W. Piasecki. (2004). The identity of Limnoncaea diuncata Kokubo, 1914 (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida) from Hokkaido, Japan, with the relegation of Diergasilus Do, 1981 to a junior synonym of Thersitina Norman, 1905. Systematic Parasitology 57(1):35-44. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Rolbiecki, L. (2005). Correlation between the presence of Thersitina gasterostei (Pagenstecher, 1861) copepods and the body length of the stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in the Polish part of the Visula lagoon. <em>In: Buczek, A. & C. Blaszak (eds.). Arthropods - a variety of forms and interactions. Wyd. Koliber, Lublin.</em> :195-201. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Savoie, V.L. (2004). Taxonomy and ecology of Ergasilus sp. and Thersitina gasterostei (Copepoda) parasitizing gasterosteiforms along the coasts of the Atlantic Canadian Provinces. M.Sc. Thesis, Saint MaryÆs University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 77 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sadler, K. (1977). Host parasite relationship of two copepod parasites of freshwater fishes (Lernaea cyprinacea and Thersitina gasterostei) and of the parasites of the three-spined sticklebacks in Wintersett Reservoir. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K. [details]
additional source Røen, U. (1994). Studies on freshwater Entomostraca in Greenland VI. The Entomostraca of the Kap Farvel Area, southernmost Greenland. <em>Meddelelser om Gronland Bioscience.</em> 41:1-21. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Dementev, M.S. (2015). Predvaritel'nyy obzor vodnykh bespozvonochnykh Tsentral'nogo Predkavkaz'ya (Severnyy Kavkaz) i prilegayushchikh gornykh territoriy. [Preliminary summary aquatic invertebrates in central Ciscaucasia (Nort Caucasus region) and adjacent mountain areas. ]. <em>Advances in Current Natural Sciences.</em> 6:102-118. [In Russian; English abstract]. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary; middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands) [details]Habitat ectoparasite found on Gasterosteus aculeatus. intertidal and infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) (from synonym Thersites gasterostei Pagenstecher, 1861)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications) (from synonym Ergasilus gasterostei (Pagenstecher, 1861))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Ergasilus biuncinatus Gadd, 1901)
To PESI
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) (from synonym Thersites gasterostei Pagenstecher, 1861)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications) (from synonym Ergasilus gasterostei (Pagenstecher, 1861))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Ergasilus biuncinatus Gadd, 1901)
To PESI
To ITIS
