WoRMS taxon details
Perissopus dentatus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861
135983 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135983)
accepted
Species
Chlamys incisus Beneden, 1892 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Perissopus communis Rathbun, 1887 · unaccepted (synonym)
Perissopus crenatus Leigh-Sharpe, 1930 · unaccepted (synonym)
Perissopus incisus (Beneden, 1892) · unaccepted (synonym according to Cressey, 1967)
Perissopus manuelensis Gnanamuthu, 1951 · unaccepted (synonym)
Perissopus serratus Heegaard, 1962 · unaccepted (synonym)
Perissopus travancoriensis Kurian, 1955 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Steenstrup, J.J.S. & C.F. Lütken. (1861). Bidrag til kundskab om det aabne havs snyltekrebs og lernæer samt om nogle andre nye eller hidtil kun ufuldstændigt kjendte parasitiske Copepoder. [Contribution to knowledge about the open sea parasitic crabs and mud crabs and about some other new or hitherto only incompletely known parasitic Copepods.]. <em>Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, Naturhistorisk og Mathematisk Afdeling, Kjöbenhavn.</em> (5)5: 343-432, pls. 1-15., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39308528 [details] 
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2026). World of Copepods Database. Perissopus dentatus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135983 on 2026-06-25
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Nomenclature
original description
Steenstrup, J.J.S. & C.F. Lütken. (1861). Bidrag til kundskab om det aabne havs snyltekrebs og lernæer samt om nogle andre nye eller hidtil kun ufuldstændigt kjendte parasitiske Copepoder. [Contribution to knowledge about the open sea parasitic crabs and mud crabs and about some other new or hitherto only incompletely known parasitic Copepods.]. <em>Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, Naturhistorisk og Mathematisk Afdeling, Kjöbenhavn.</em> (5)5: 343-432, pls. 1-15., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39308528 [details]
original description (of Perissopus communis Rathbun, 1887) Rathbun, R. (1887). Descriptions of new species of parasitic copepods, belonging to the genera Trebius, Perissopus, and Lernanthropus. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 10:559-571, pls. 29-35. (6-viii-1897) [details]
original description (of Perissopus crenatus Leigh-Sharpe, 1930) Leigh-Sharpe, W.H. (1930). Parasitic Copepoda. In: van Straelen, V. (ed.). Résultats Scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Néerlandaises de le Prince et la Princesse Leopold de Belgique. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, hors série 3(2):3-11, pls. 1-5. (30-xi-1930) [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Perissopus manuelensis Gnanamuthu, 1951) Gnanamuthu, C.P. (1951). Perissopus maluelensis n. sp. A pandarine copepod parasitic on Mustelus manazo Bleeker. Spolia Zeylanica 26(1):9-12, pl. (12-ii-1951) [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Perissopus serratus Heegaard, 1962) Heegaard, P.E. (1962). Parasitic Copepoda from Australian waters. Records of the Australian Museum 25(9):149-234, figs. 1-250. (28-v-1962), available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.25.1962.661 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Perissopus travancoriensis Kurian, 1955) Kurian, C.V. (1955). Parasitic copepods of Travancore-Cochin. Bulletin of the Central Research Institute, University of Travancore, Trivandrum (C)4(1):103-116, figs. 1-38. (x-1955) [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Chlamys incisus Beneden, 1892) Beneden, P.J. Van. (1892). Le mâle de certains Caligidés et un nouveau genre de cette famille. [The male of certain Caligids and a new genre of this family.]. <em>Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique.</em> (3)23:220-235, pls. 1-2. [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 Perissopus communis Rathbun, 1887) Rathbun, R. (1887). Descriptions of new species of parasitic copepods, belonging to the genera Trebius, Perissopus, and Lernanthropus. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 10:559-571, pls. 29-35. (6-viii-1897) [details]
original description (of Perissopus crenatus Leigh-Sharpe, 1930) Leigh-Sharpe, W.H. (1930). Parasitic Copepoda. In: van Straelen, V. (ed.). Résultats Scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Néerlandaises de le Prince et la Princesse Leopold de Belgique. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, hors série 3(2):3-11, pls. 1-5. (30-xi-1930) [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Perissopus manuelensis Gnanamuthu, 1951) Gnanamuthu, C.P. (1951). Perissopus maluelensis n. sp. A pandarine copepod parasitic on Mustelus manazo Bleeker. Spolia Zeylanica 26(1):9-12, pl. (12-ii-1951) [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Perissopus serratus Heegaard, 1962) Heegaard, P.E. (1962). Parasitic Copepoda from Australian waters. Records of the Australian Museum 25(9):149-234, figs. 1-250. (28-v-1962), available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.25.1962.661 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Perissopus travancoriensis Kurian, 1955) Kurian, C.V. (1955). Parasitic copepods of Travancore-Cochin. Bulletin of the Central Research Institute, University of Travancore, Trivandrum (C)4(1):103-116, figs. 1-38. (x-1955) [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Chlamys incisus Beneden, 1892) Beneden, P.J. Van. (1892). Le mâle de certains Caligidés et un nouveau genre de cette famille. [The male of certain Caligids and a new genre of this family.]. <em>Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique.</em> (3)23:220-235, pls. 1-2. [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]
Taxonomy
redescription
Cressey, R.F. (1967). Revision of the family Pandaridae (Copepoda: Caligoida). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 121(3570):1-133, figs. 1-356. (16-ii-1967), available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.121-3570.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]Other
context source (PeRMS)
Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. [Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru.]. <em>Neotropical Helminthology.</em> 10(2):301-375., available online at https://doi.org/10.24039/rnh2016102751 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Barnard, K.H. (1955). South African parasitic Copepoda. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 41(5):223-312, figs. 1-33. (ii-1955). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Della Valle, A. (1881). Crostacei parassiti dei pesci del Mare Adriatico. [Crustaceans parasitic on fish in the Adriatic Sea.]. <em>Bollettino della Società Adriatica di Scienze Naturali, Trieste.</em> 6(1):55-90. [for 1880]. [details]
additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kumar, K.A. (1990). Studies on copepod parasites on elasmobranchs of Kerala Coast. <em>Ph.D. Thesis, The Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India.</em> 286 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Benmansour, B., F. Youssef, M. Ben Ali, B. Albogami & F. Boufahja. (2022). The survey of ectoparasites on two species of Triakids (Mustelus mustelus and M. punctulatus) sharks from Tunisian coasts. <em>Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences.</em> 29(5):3610-3616. May 2022., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2022.02.052 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Essafi, K. & A. Raibaut. (1977). Copépodes parasites des poissons de Tunisie (deuxième série). [Copepod parasites of Tunisian fish (second series).]. <em>Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Tunisie.</em> 12:23-38. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hewitt, G.C. (1967). Some New Zealand parasitic Copepoda of the family Pandaridae. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 1(2):180-264, figs. 1-159. (vi-1967), available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00288330.1967.9515202 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kirtisinghe, P. (1964). A review of the parasitic copepods of fish recorded from Ceylon, with descriptions of additional forms. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Station, Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 17(1):45-132, figs. 1-191. (vi-1964) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pilgrim, R.L.C. (1985). Parasitic Copepoda from marine coastal fishes in the Kaikoura-Banks Peninsula Region, South Island, New Zealand. With a key for their identification. Mauri Ora 12:13-53, figs. 1-63. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pillai, N.K. (1985). Copepod Parasites of Marine Fishes. <em>In: The Fauna of India. Zoological Society of India, Calcutta.</em> 900pp., figs. 1-279.
page(s): 171 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Barnard, K.H. (1955). South African parasitic Copepoda. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 41(5):223-312, figs. 1-33. (ii-1955). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Della Valle, A. (1881). Crostacei parassiti dei pesci del Mare Adriatico. [Crustaceans parasitic on fish in the Adriatic Sea.]. <em>Bollettino della Società Adriatica di Scienze Naturali, Trieste.</em> 6(1):55-90. [for 1880]. [details]
additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kumar, K.A. (1990). Studies on copepod parasites on elasmobranchs of Kerala Coast. <em>Ph.D. Thesis, The Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India.</em> 286 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Benmansour, B., F. Youssef, M. Ben Ali, B. Albogami & F. Boufahja. (2022). The survey of ectoparasites on two species of Triakids (Mustelus mustelus and M. punctulatus) sharks from Tunisian coasts. <em>Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences.</em> 29(5):3610-3616. May 2022., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2022.02.052 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Essafi, K. & A. Raibaut. (1977). Copépodes parasites des poissons de Tunisie (deuxième série). [Copepod parasites of Tunisian fish (second series).]. <em>Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Tunisie.</em> 12:23-38. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Hewitt, G.C. (1967). Some New Zealand parasitic Copepoda of the family Pandaridae. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 1(2):180-264, figs. 1-159. (vi-1967), available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00288330.1967.9515202 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kirtisinghe, P. (1964). A review of the parasitic copepods of fish recorded from Ceylon, with descriptions of additional forms. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Station, Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 17(1):45-132, figs. 1-191. (vi-1964) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pilgrim, R.L.C. (1985). Parasitic Copepoda from marine coastal fishes in the Kaikoura-Banks Peninsula Region, South Island, New Zealand. With a key for their identification. Mauri Ora 12:13-53, figs. 1-63. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pillai, N.K. (1985). Copepod Parasites of Marine Fishes. <em>In: The Fauna of India. Zoological Society of India, Calcutta.</em> 900pp., figs. 1-279.
page(s): 171 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Perissopus manuelensis Gnanamuthu, 1951)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Perissopus serratus Heegaard, 1962)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Perissopus communis Rathbun, 1887)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Perissopus dentatus)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (17 records) (from synonym Perissopus communis Rathbun, 1887)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (75 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Perissopus manuelensis Gnanamuthu, 1951)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Perissopus serratus Heegaard, 1962)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Perissopus communis Rathbun, 1887)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Perissopus dentatus)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (17 records) (from synonym Perissopus communis Rathbun, 1887)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (75 records)
To ITIS
