WoRMS taxon details
Caligus apodus (Brian, 1924)
237921 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:237921)
accepted
Species
Pseudocaligus apodus Brian, 1924 · unaccepted
Pseudolepeophtheirus mediterraneus Paperna, 1964 · unaccepted (listed as synonym in Raibaut &...)
listed as synonym in Raibaut & Ben Hassine, 1977
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Pseudocaligus apodus Brian, 1924) Brian, A. (1924). Copepoda. Copepodes commensaux et parasites des cotes Mauritaniennes. [Copepoda. Commensal and parasitic copepods of the Mauritanian coasts.]. <em>In: Parasitologica Mauritanica. Matériaux pour la faune parasitologique en Mauritanie.</em> 1(1):1-66, figs. 1-67, also Bulletin du Comitae d'etudes Historiques et Scientifiques de l'Afrique Occidentale Francoaise 9:363-427, figs. 1-69. [details] Available for editors 
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Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2026). World of Copepods Database. Caligus apodus (Brian, 1924). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=237921 on 2026-08-17
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Pseudocaligus apodus Brian, 1924) Brian, A. (1924). Copepoda. Copepodes commensaux et parasites des cotes Mauritaniennes. [Copepoda. Commensal and parasitic copepods of the Mauritanian coasts.]. <em>In: Parasitologica Mauritanica. Matériaux pour la faune parasitologique en Mauritanie.</em> 1(1):1-66, figs. 1-67, also Bulletin du Comitae d'etudes Historiques et Scientifiques de l'Afrique Occidentale Francoaise 9:363-427, figs. 1-69. [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Pseudolepeophtheirus mediterraneus Paperna, 1964) Paperna, I. (1964). Parasitic Crustacea (Copepoda and Branchiura) from inland water fishes of Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 13:58-68, pls. 1-5. [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Mariniello, Loredana (2006). Crustacea Maxipolloda Copepodi parassiti ed associati, in: Revisione della Checklist della fauna marina italiana, available online at http://www.faunaitalia.it/checklist/ [details]
[request]original description (of Pseudolepeophtheirus mediterraneus Paperna, 1964) Paperna, I. (1964). Parasitic Crustacea (Copepoda and Branchiura) from inland water fishes of Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 13:58-68, pls. 1-5. [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Mariniello, Loredana (2006). Crustacea Maxipolloda Copepodi parassiti ed associati, in: Revisione della Checklist della fauna marina italiana, available online at http://www.faunaitalia.it/checklist/ [details]
Other
additional source
Brian, A. (1935). I Caligus parassiti dei pesci del Mediterraneo (Copepodi). [Caligus parasites of Mediterranean fish (Copepods).]. <em>Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 'Giacomo Doria', Genova.</em> 57:152-211, figs. 1-20. (10-vi-1935). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ragias, V., D. Tontis & F. Athanassopoulou. (2004). Incidence of an intense Caligus minimus Otto 1821, C. pageti Russel, 1925, C. mugilis Brian, 1935 and C. apodus Brian, 1924 infection in lagoon cultured sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) in Greece. <em>Aquaculture.</em> 242(1-4):727-733., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2004.08.019 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Özak, A.A., I. Demirkale, G.A. Boxshall & M. Etyemez. (2013). Parasitic copepods of the common sole, Solea solea (L.), from the Eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> 86(2): 173-185., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-013-9441-8 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Öktener, A., D. Turker & A. Alas. (2017). The Sea of Marmara: New locality for two caligids and one lernanthropid in Turkey. <em>Journal of Wetlands Biodiversity.</em> 7:109-130. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Öktener, A., M. Montes, R.C. Romero, D. Türker & J.P. Trilles. (2024). Caligus turkiyensis n. sp. (Copepoda: Caligidae) on the flathead grey mullet, Mugil cephalus (Linnaeus) (Mugiliformes: Mugilidae) from the Sea of Marmara, Turkey. <em>Vie Et Milieu / Life And Environment.</em> 74(1-2): 44-66. Sep 2024., available online at https://doi.org/10.57890/VieMlieu/2024.74-1/2:44-66 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Öktener, A. (2016). Kuzey Ege Denizi ve Bandırma Körfezindeki bazı kemikli balıklarda metazoan ektoparazitlerin araştırılması. [Research on metazoan ectoparasites of some teleost fish from North Aegean Sea and Bandırma Bay. ]. <em>Doctoral Thesis, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Balıkesir Üniversitesi, Balıkesir, Türkiye.</em> xv + 224 pp. [In Turkish; English abstract] Jun 2016., available online at http:// https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12462/2981 [details] Available for editors [request]
biology source Khidr, A.E.A., Abu Samak, O.A., Said, A.E. & Abou Hadied, M.M. (2008). Redescription of the parasitic copepod Pseudocaligus apodus and its effects on the gills of the flathead grey mullet, Mugil cephalus and testing two antiparasitic agents. <em>18th International Conference Egyptian German Society of Zoology.</em> 56, (D): 247-264. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Ragias, V., D. Tontis & F. Athanassopoulou. (2004). Incidence of an intense Caligus minimus Otto 1821, C. pageti Russel, 1925, C. mugilis Brian, 1935 and C. apodus Brian, 1924 infection in lagoon cultured sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) in Greece. <em>Aquaculture.</em> 242(1-4):727-733., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2004.08.019 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Özak, A.A., I. Demirkale, G.A. Boxshall & M. Etyemez. (2013). Parasitic copepods of the common sole, Solea solea (L.), from the Eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> 86(2): 173-185., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-013-9441-8 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Öktener, A., D. Turker & A. Alas. (2017). The Sea of Marmara: New locality for two caligids and one lernanthropid in Turkey. <em>Journal of Wetlands Biodiversity.</em> 7:109-130. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Öktener, A., M. Montes, R.C. Romero, D. Türker & J.P. Trilles. (2024). Caligus turkiyensis n. sp. (Copepoda: Caligidae) on the flathead grey mullet, Mugil cephalus (Linnaeus) (Mugiliformes: Mugilidae) from the Sea of Marmara, Turkey. <em>Vie Et Milieu / Life And Environment.</em> 74(1-2): 44-66. Sep 2024., available online at https://doi.org/10.57890/VieMlieu/2024.74-1/2:44-66 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Öktener, A. (2016). Kuzey Ege Denizi ve Bandırma Körfezindeki bazı kemikli balıklarda metazoan ektoparazitlerin araştırılması. [Research on metazoan ectoparasites of some teleost fish from North Aegean Sea and Bandırma Bay. ]. <em>Doctoral Thesis, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Balıkesir Üniversitesi, Balıkesir, Türkiye.</em> xv + 224 pp. [In Turkish; English abstract] Jun 2016., available online at http:// https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12462/2981 [details] Available for editors
[request]biology source Khidr, A.E.A., Abu Samak, O.A., Said, A.E. & Abou Hadied, M.M. (2008). Redescription of the parasitic copepod Pseudocaligus apodus and its effects on the gills of the flathead grey mullet, Mugil cephalus and testing two antiparasitic agents. <em>18th International Conference Egyptian German Society of Zoology.</em> 56, (D): 247-264. [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 (3 publications) (from synonym Pseudocaligus apodus Brian, 1924)
To PESI (from synonym Pseudocaligus apodus Brian, 1924)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Pseudocaligus apodus Brian, 1924)
To PESI
