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Caligus productus Dana, 1849-1852
449125 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:449125)
accepted
Species
Caligus dentatus Heegaard, 1962 · unaccepted (synonym)
Caligus katuwo Yamaguti, 1936 · unaccepted
Caligus lobatus Wilson C.B., 1935 · unaccepted (synonym)
Caligus microdontus Heegaard, 1964 · unaccepted (synonym)
Caligus mirabilis Leigh-Sharpe, 1934 · unaccepted (synonym)
Caligus monacanthi Krøyer, 1863 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh
Dana, J.D. (1849-1852). Conspectus crustaceorum, quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes, e classe Reipublicae foederatae duce, lexit et descripsit Jacobus D. Dana. Pars II. <em>Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 2: 9-61. [Vol. II,. from May 1848-May 1852]. no figures or plates just verbal., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4481593#page/17/mode/1up [details] 
Dana, J.D. (1853-1855). Crustacea. Part II. <em>In: United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes. U. S. N., C. Sherman Printer, Philadelphia.</em> 14: 691-1618. [1855, folio atlas pls. 1-96.]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40412910 [details]
Dana, J.D. (1853-1855). Crustacea. Part II. <em>In: United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes. U. S. N., C. Sherman Printer, Philadelphia.</em> 14: 691-1618. [1855, folio atlas pls. 1-96.]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40412910 [details]
Distribution tropical and subtropical Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans
Taxonomy According to the catalogue of Margolis et al. (1975), C. productus was described by Dana (1852) on page 56. It was then...
Distribution tropical and subtropical Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans [details]
Taxonomy According to the catalogue of Margolis et al. (1975), C. productus was described by Dana (1852) on page 56. It was then...
Taxonomy According to the catalogue of Margolis et al. (1975), C. productus was described by Dana (1852) on page 56. It was then described again in Dana (1853) pages 1354-1355. The figures appeared later, in the Atlas (Plate 94, figs 4a and 4b) published in 1855. [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Caligus productus Dana, 1849-1852. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=449125 on 2025-01-17
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original description
Dana, J.D. (1849-1852). Conspectus crustaceorum, quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes, e classe Reipublicae foederatae duce, lexit et descripsit Jacobus D. Dana. Pars II. <em>Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 2: 9-61. [Vol. II,. from May 1848-May 1852]. no figures or plates just verbal., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4481593#page/17/mode/1up [details]
original description Dana, J.D. (1853-1855). Crustacea. Part II. <em>In: United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes. U. S. N., C. Sherman Printer, Philadelphia.</em> 14: 691-1618. [1855, folio atlas pls. 1-96.]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40412910 [details]
original description (of Caligus katuwo Yamaguti, 1936) Yamaguti, S. (1936). Parasitic copepods from fishes of Japan. Part 2. Caligoida, I. Kyoto Imperial University. Published by author 1-22, pls. 1-12. (5-x-1936) [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Caligus lobatus Wilson C.B., 1935) Wilson, C.B. (1935). New parasitic copepods. Reports on the Collections Obtained by the First Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-sea Expedition to the Puerto Rican Deep. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 91(19):1-9, pls. 1-3. (8-iv-1935) [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Caligus microdontus Heegaard, 1964) 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 mirabilis Leigh-Sharpe, 1934) Leigh-Sharpe, W.H. (1934). The Copepoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part II. Commensal and parasitic Copepoda. Siboga Expeditie, Monograph, Leiden 29b (= Livr. 123): i-vii, 1-43, figs. 1-39. [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Caligus monacanthi Krøyer, 1863) Krøyer, H. (1863-1864). Bidrag til Kundskab om Snyltekrebsene. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift Ser. III.</em> 2(1/2): 75-320, pls. 1-9 [1863]; 2(3): 321-426, pls. 10-18 [1864]. [details]
original description (of Caligus dentatus 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]
basis of record 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 Sitaratnam, C. & C. Manjulatha. (2021). Caligus productus Dana, 1852, copepod parasite on marine fishes of Waltair coast, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. <em>Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (JETIR).</em> 8(6):e670-e675. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Heegaard, P.E. (1972). Caliginae and Euryphorinae of the Dana Expedition (Crustacea Copepoda, Caligidae). Steenstrupia 2:295-317, figs. 1-53. (28-xii-1972) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ho, J.S. & C.L. Lin. (2004). Sea lice of Taiwan (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Caligidae). <em>The Sueichan Press, Keelung, Taiwan.</em> 388 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lewis, A.G. (1967). Copepod crustaceans parasitic on teleost fishes of the Hawaiian islands. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 121(3574):1-204, figs. 1-70. (22-vi-1967). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. <em>The Ray Society, London.</em> 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Krøyer, H. (1863-1864). Bidrag til Kundskab om Snyltekrebsene. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift Ser. III.</em> 2(1/2): 75-320, pls. 1-9 [1863]; 2(3): 321-426, pls. 10-18 [1864]. [details]
additional source Lin, C.L. & J.S. Ho. (2001). Sea lice (Copepoda, Caligidae) parasitic on pelagic fishes of Taiwan. <em>Journal of the Fisheries Society of Taiwan.</em> 28(2): 19-142. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ramakrishnan, P. (1980). Revision of the Caligidae (Copepoda) with special reference to the Indian fauna. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Kerala 400pp. + 15 plates. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pillai, N.K. (1967). Copepods parasitic on Indian marine fishes. A review. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Crustacea. Symposium Series, Marine Biological Association of India (2)5:1556-1680, figs. 1-266. [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): 340 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Shiino, S.M. (1959). Ostpazifische parasitierende Copepoden. [Eastern Pacific parasitic copepods.]. <em>Reports of the Faculty of Fisheries, Prefectural University of Mie.</em> 3(2):267-333, figs. 1-25. (xi-1959). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Shiino, S.M. (1959). Sammlung der parasitischen Copepoden in der Präfectur Universität von Mie. [Collection of parasitic copepods at Mie Prefectural University.]. <em>Reports of the Faculty of Fisheries, Prefectural University of Mie.</em> 3(2):334-374, figs. 1-17. (30-xi-1959). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source 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]
additional source Wilson, C.B. (1905). North American parasitic copepods belonging to the family Caligidae. Part 1.- The Caliginae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 28(1404):479-672, pls. 5-29. (23-vi-1905). [details]
original description Dana, J.D. (1853-1855). Crustacea. Part II. <em>In: United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes. U. S. N., C. Sherman Printer, Philadelphia.</em> 14: 691-1618. [1855, folio atlas pls. 1-96.]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40412910 [details]
original description (of Caligus katuwo Yamaguti, 1936) Yamaguti, S. (1936). Parasitic copepods from fishes of Japan. Part 2. Caligoida, I. Kyoto Imperial University. Published by author 1-22, pls. 1-12. (5-x-1936) [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Caligus lobatus Wilson C.B., 1935) Wilson, C.B. (1935). New parasitic copepods. Reports on the Collections Obtained by the First Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-sea Expedition to the Puerto Rican Deep. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 91(19):1-9, pls. 1-3. (8-iv-1935) [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Caligus microdontus Heegaard, 1964) 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 mirabilis Leigh-Sharpe, 1934) Leigh-Sharpe, W.H. (1934). The Copepoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part II. Commensal and parasitic Copepoda. Siboga Expeditie, Monograph, Leiden 29b (= Livr. 123): i-vii, 1-43, figs. 1-39. [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Caligus monacanthi Krøyer, 1863) Krøyer, H. (1863-1864). Bidrag til Kundskab om Snyltekrebsene. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift Ser. III.</em> 2(1/2): 75-320, pls. 1-9 [1863]; 2(3): 321-426, pls. 10-18 [1864]. [details]
original description (of Caligus dentatus 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]basis of record 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 Sitaratnam, C. & C. Manjulatha. (2021). Caligus productus Dana, 1852, copepod parasite on marine fishes of Waltair coast, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. <em>Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (JETIR).</em> 8(6):e670-e675. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Heegaard, P.E. (1972). Caliginae and Euryphorinae of the Dana Expedition (Crustacea Copepoda, Caligidae). Steenstrupia 2:295-317, figs. 1-53. (28-xii-1972) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ho, J.S. & C.L. Lin. (2004). Sea lice of Taiwan (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Caligidae). <em>The Sueichan Press, Keelung, Taiwan.</em> 388 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lewis, A.G. (1967). Copepod crustaceans parasitic on teleost fishes of the Hawaiian islands. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 121(3574):1-204, figs. 1-70. (22-vi-1967). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. <em>The Ray Society, London.</em> 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Krøyer, H. (1863-1864). Bidrag til Kundskab om Snyltekrebsene. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift Ser. III.</em> 2(1/2): 75-320, pls. 1-9 [1863]; 2(3): 321-426, pls. 10-18 [1864]. [details]
additional source Lin, C.L. & J.S. Ho. (2001). Sea lice (Copepoda, Caligidae) parasitic on pelagic fishes of Taiwan. <em>Journal of the Fisheries Society of Taiwan.</em> 28(2): 19-142. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ramakrishnan, P. (1980). Revision of the Caligidae (Copepoda) with special reference to the Indian fauna. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Kerala 400pp. + 15 plates. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pillai, N.K. (1967). Copepods parasitic on Indian marine fishes. A review. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Crustacea. Symposium Series, Marine Biological Association of India (2)5:1556-1680, figs. 1-266. [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): 340 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Shiino, S.M. (1959). Ostpazifische parasitierende Copepoden. [Eastern Pacific parasitic copepods.]. <em>Reports of the Faculty of Fisheries, Prefectural University of Mie.</em> 3(2):267-333, figs. 1-25. (xi-1959). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Shiino, S.M. (1959). Sammlung der parasitischen Copepoden in der Präfectur Universität von Mie. [Collection of parasitic copepods at Mie Prefectural University.]. <em>Reports of the Faculty of Fisheries, Prefectural University of Mie.</em> 3(2):334-374, figs. 1-17. (30-xi-1959). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source 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]
additional source Wilson, C.B. (1905). North American parasitic copepods belonging to the family Caligidae. Part 1.- The Caliginae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 28(1404):479-672, pls. 5-29. (23-vi-1905). [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Distribution tropical and subtropical Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans [details]Habitat body surface, oral and gill cavities [details]
Taxonomy According to the catalogue of Margolis et al. (1975), C. productus was described by Dana (1852) on page 56. It was then described again in Dana (1853) pages 1354-1355. The figures appeared later, in the Atlas (Plate 94, figs 4a and 4b) published in 1855. [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Caligus microdontus Heegaard, 1964)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Caligus mirabilis Leigh-Sharpe, 1934)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Caligus katuwo Yamaguti, 1936)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Caligus monacanthi Krøyer, 1863)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (82 publications)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Caligus lobatus Wilson C.B., 1935)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Caligus mirabilis Leigh-Sharpe, 1934)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 64059) (from synonym Caligus lobatus Wilson C.B., 1935)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Caligus mirabilis Leigh-Sharpe, 1934)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Caligus katuwo Yamaguti, 1936)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Caligus monacanthi Krøyer, 1863)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (82 publications)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Caligus lobatus Wilson C.B., 1935)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Caligus mirabilis Leigh-Sharpe, 1934)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 64059) (from synonym Caligus lobatus Wilson C.B., 1935)
To ITIS
