WoRMS taxon details
Caligus pauliani Nuñes-Ruivo & Fourmanoir, 1956
357644 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:357644)
accepted
Species
Caligus auxisi Pillai N.K., 1963 · unaccepted
Caligus biseriodentatus Shen, 1957 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (according to Boxshall and Bernot (2023))
Caligus obovatus Heegaard, 1962 · unaccepted (synonym, according to Cressey &...)
synonym, according to Cressey & Cressey (1980)
Caligus proboscidatus Heegaard, 1962 · unaccepted (synonym, according to Cressey &...)
synonym, according to Cressey & Cressey (1980)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Nuñes-Ruivo, L. & P. Fourmanoir. (1956). Copépodes parasites de poissons de Madagascar. I. [Parasitic copepods of fish from Madagascar. I.]. <em>Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar.</em> (A)10:69-80, figs. 1-8. [details] Available for editors 
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Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Caligus pauliani Nuñes-Ruivo & Fourmanoir, 1956. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=357644 on 2025-12-11
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Nomenclature
original description
Nuñes-Ruivo, L. & P. Fourmanoir. (1956). Copépodes parasites de poissons de Madagascar. I. [Parasitic copepods of fish from Madagascar. I.]. <em>Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar.</em> (A)10:69-80, figs. 1-8. [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Caligus proboscidatus 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 Caligus obovatus 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 Caligus auxisi Pillai N.K., 1963) Pillai, N.K. (1963). Copepods parasitic on South Indian fishes: Family Caligidae. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India 5(1):68-96, figs. 1-16. (xii-1963) [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Caligus biseriodentatus Shen, 1957) Shen, C.J. (1957). Parasitic copepods from fishes of China. Part II. Caligoida, Caligidae (1). Acta Zoologica Sinica 9(4):351-378, pls. 1-11. (xii-1957, Chinese with English summary). [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]original description (of Caligus proboscidatus 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 Caligus obovatus 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 Caligus auxisi Pillai N.K., 1963) Pillai, N.K. (1963). Copepods parasitic on South Indian fishes: Family Caligidae. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India 5(1):68-96, figs. 1-16. (xii-1963) [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Caligus biseriodentatus Shen, 1957) Shen, C.J. (1957). Parasitic copepods from fishes of China. Part II. Caligoida, Caligidae (1). Acta Zoologica Sinica 9(4):351-378, pls. 1-11. (xii-1957, Chinese with English summary). [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Dippenaar, S.M. & M.M. Sebone. (2025). Caligus (Caligidae: Siphonostomatoida) species off southern Africa with the description of C. pillaii sp. nov. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5686(2): 151-197., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5686.2.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Caligus auxisi Pillai N.K., 1963)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Caligus auxisi Pillai N.K., 1963)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (30 records) (from synonym Caligus biseriodentatus Shen, 1957)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Caligus auxisi Pillai N.K., 1963)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (30 records) (from synonym Caligus biseriodentatus Shen, 1957)
