WoRMS taxon details
Nesippus orientalis Heller, 1865
353769 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:353769)
accepted
Species
Nesippus alatus Wilson C.B., 1905 · unaccepted (synonym)
Nesippus angustatus (Beneden, 1892) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Nesippus australis Heegaard, 1962 · unaccepted (synonym)
Nesippus incisus Heegaard, 1962 · unaccepted (synonym)
Nesippus ornatus Thomsen, 1949 · unaccepted (synonym according to Cressey (1967))
Nessipus orientalis Heller, 1865 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Nogagus angustatus Beneden, 1892 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Nogagus tenax Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861 · unaccepted
Nogaus affinis (Beneden, 1892) · unaccepted
Nogaus angustatus (Beneden, 1892) · unaccepted
Nogaus tenax Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Heller, C. (1865). Crustaceen. [Crustacea]. <em>Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erdre, in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair, Zoologischer Theil, Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien, Band.</em> 2 (Abtheilung 3): 1–280, pls. 1–25., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13188320 [details] 
Distribution Northwestern Atlantic
Distribution Northwestern Atlantic [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2026). World of Copepods Database. Nesippus orientalis Heller, 1865. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=353769 on 2026-02-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Heller, C. (1865). Crustaceen. [Crustacea]. <em>Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erdre, in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair, Zoologischer Theil, Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien, Band.</em> 2 (Abtheilung 3): 1–280, pls. 1–25., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13188320 [details]
original description (of Nesippus australis 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) [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Nesippus incisus 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) [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Nessipus orientalis Heller, 1865) Heller, C. (1865). Crustaceen. [Crustacea]. <em>Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erdre, in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair, Zoologischer Theil, Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien, Band.</em> 2 (Abtheilung 3): 1–280, pls. 1–25., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13188320 [details]
original description (of Nesippus alatus Wilson C.B., 1905) Wilson, C.B. (1905). New species of parasitic copepods from the Massachusetts coast. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 18:127-131. [details]
original description (of Nesippus ornatus Thomsen, 1949) Thomsen, R. (1949). Copépodos parásitos de los peces marinos del Uruguay. [Parasitic copepods of marine fishes of Uruguay.]. <em>Comunicaciones Zoologicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo.</em> 3(54):1-41, pls. 1-14. (16-ix-1949). [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Nogaus tenax Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861) 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
page(s): 388 [details]
original description (of Nogagus angustatus Beneden, 1892) Beneden, P.J. Van. (1892). Quelques nouveaux Caligidés de la côte d'Afrique et de l'archipel des Açores. [Some new Caligidae from the coast of Africa and the Azores archipelago.]. <em>Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique.</em> (3)24:241-262, pls. 1-4. [details]
original description (of Nogagus tenax Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861) 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 Nesippus australis 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) [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Nesippus incisus 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) [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Nessipus orientalis Heller, 1865) Heller, C. (1865). Crustaceen. [Crustacea]. <em>Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erdre, in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair, Zoologischer Theil, Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien, Band.</em> 2 (Abtheilung 3): 1–280, pls. 1–25., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13188320 [details]
original description (of Nesippus alatus Wilson C.B., 1905) Wilson, C.B. (1905). New species of parasitic copepods from the Massachusetts coast. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 18:127-131. [details]
original description (of Nesippus ornatus Thomsen, 1949) Thomsen, R. (1949). Copépodos parásitos de los peces marinos del Uruguay. [Parasitic copepods of marine fishes of Uruguay.]. <em>Comunicaciones Zoologicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo.</em> 3(54):1-41, pls. 1-14. (16-ix-1949). [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Nogaus tenax Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861) 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
page(s): 388 [details]
original description (of Nogagus angustatus Beneden, 1892) Beneden, P.J. Van. (1892). Quelques nouveaux Caligidés de la côte d'Afrique et de l'archipel des Açores. [Some new Caligidae from the coast of Africa and the Azores archipelago.]. <em>Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique.</em> (3)24:241-262, pls. 1-4. [details]
original description (of Nogagus tenax Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861) 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]
Taxonomy
redescription
Izawa, K. (2010). Redescription of eight species of parasitic copepods (Siphonostomatoida, Pandaridae) infecting Japanese elasmobranchs. Crustaceana 83(3):313-341. [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription Dippenaar, S.M. & B.P. Jordaan. (2006). Nesippus orientalis Heller, 1868 (Pandaridae: Siphonostomatoida): descriptions of the adult, young and immature females, a first description of the male and aspects of their functional morphology. Systematic Parasitology 65:27-41. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]redescription Dippenaar, S.M. & B.P. Jordaan. (2006). Nesippus orientalis Heller, 1868 (Pandaridae: Siphonostomatoida): descriptions of the adult, young and immature females, a first description of the male and aspects of their functional morphology. Systematic Parasitology 65:27-41. [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Rodríguez-Santiago, M.A., S. Gómez & M.I. Grano-Maldonado. (2015). New Records Of Parasitic Copepods (Copepoda: Pandaridae, Eudactylinidae, Caligidae) On Five Shark Species (Pisces: Elasmobranchia) In The Gulf Of Mexico. Nuevos Registros De Copépodos Parásitos (Copepoda: Pandaridae, Eudactylinidae, Caligidae) En Cinco Especies De Tiburones (Pisces: Elasmobranchia) En El Golfo De México. <em>Neotropical Helminthology.</em> 9(1):177-182. [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 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) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Nuñes-Ruivo, L. (1956). Copépodes parasitas de peixes dos mares de Angola. [Copepods parasitic on fish from the seas of Angola.]. <em>Anais da Junta de Investigaçoes do Ultramar, Estudos de Biologia, Lisboa.</em> 9(2):7-45, pls. 1-7. (For 1954. Original + partial English translation.). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Mathibela, R.B. & S,M, Dippenaar. (2005). Detailed morphology of the copepod parasite Nesippus orientalis (Siphonostomatoida, Randaridae). Journal of the South African Veterinary Association 76(3):181 (Abstract). [details]
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): 179 [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
[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 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) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Nuñes-Ruivo, L. (1956). Copépodes parasitas de peixes dos mares de Angola. [Copepods parasitic on fish from the seas of Angola.]. <em>Anais da Junta de Investigaçoes do Ultramar, Estudos de Biologia, Lisboa.</em> 9(2):7-45, pls. 1-7. (For 1954. Original + partial English translation.). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Mathibela, R.B. & S,M, Dippenaar. (2005). Detailed morphology of the copepod parasite Nesippus orientalis (Siphonostomatoida, Randaridae). Journal of the South African Veterinary Association 76(3):181 (Abstract). [details]
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): 179 [details] Available for editors
[request]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
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution Northwestern Atlantic [details]Habitat parasitic species (host: e.g. Carcharodon carcharias, Great White Shark) [details]
To Barcode of Life (47 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Nessipus orientalis Heller, 1865)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Nesippus australis Heegaard, 1962)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Nesippus incisus Heegaard, 1962)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Nesippus alatus Wilson C.B., 1905)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Nesippus orientalis)
To GenBank (54 nucleotides; 47 proteins)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Nessipus orientalis Heller, 1865)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (102 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (33 records) (from synonym Nesippus alatus Wilson C.B., 1905)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Nessipus orientalis Heller, 1865)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Nesippus australis Heegaard, 1962)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Nesippus incisus Heegaard, 1962)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Nesippus alatus Wilson C.B., 1905)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Nesippus orientalis)
To GenBank (54 nucleotides; 47 proteins)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Nessipus orientalis Heller, 1865)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (102 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (33 records) (from synonym Nesippus alatus Wilson C.B., 1905)
To ITIS
