WoRMS name details
Caligus fugu Yamaguti & Yamasu, 1959
349626 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:349626)
unaccepted (This became a junior secondary homonym of Caligus fugu (Yamaguti, 1936) after the generic synonymy proposed by Dojiri and Ho, 2013. See Özak et al., 2013 for details.)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2026). World of Copepods Database. Caligus fugu Yamaguti & Yamasu, 1959. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=349626 on 2026-10-14
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Nomenclature
original description
Yamaguti, S. & T. Yamasu. (1959). Parasitic copepods from fishes of Japan with description of 26 new species and remarks on two known species. Biological Journal of Okayama University 5(3-4):89-165, pls. 1-14. (ix-1959) [details] Available for editors 
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context source (Introduced species)
Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. <em>BioInvasions Records.</em> 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Zenetos, A., Gofas, S., Morri, C., Rosso, A, Violanti, D., Garcia Raso, J. E., Cinar, M. E., Almogi-Labin, A., Ates, A. S., Azzurro, E., Ballesteros, E., Bianchi, C. N., Bilecenoglu, M., Gambi, M. C., Giangrande, A., Gravili, C., Hyams-Kaphzan, O., Karachle, P. K., Katsanevakis, S., Lipej, L., Mastrototaro, F., Mineur, F., Pancucci-Papadopoulou, M. A., Ramos Espla, A., Salas, C., San Martin, G., Sfriso, A., Streftaris, N., and Verlaque, M. (2012). Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea by 2012. A contribution to the application of European Union's Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Part 2. Introduction trends and pathways. <em>Mediterranean Marine Science.</em> 13(2): 328-352., available online at https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.327 [details] Available for editors [request]
toxicology 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]
[request]additional source Zenetos, A., Gofas, S., Morri, C., Rosso, A, Violanti, D., Garcia Raso, J. E., Cinar, M. E., Almogi-Labin, A., Ates, A. S., Azzurro, E., Ballesteros, E., Bianchi, C. N., Bilecenoglu, M., Gambi, M. C., Giangrande, A., Gravili, C., Hyams-Kaphzan, O., Karachle, P. K., Katsanevakis, S., Lipej, L., Mastrototaro, F., Mineur, F., Pancucci-Papadopoulou, M. A., Ramos Espla, A., Salas, C., San Martin, G., Sfriso, A., Streftaris, N., and Verlaque, M. (2012). Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea by 2012. A contribution to the application of European Union's Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Part 2. Introduction trends and pathways. <em>Mediterranean Marine Science.</em> 13(2): 328-352., available online at https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.327 [details] Available for editors
[request]toxicology 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
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species vector dispersal in Turkish part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin (Marine Region) : Canals: natural range expansion through man-made canals [details]
