WoRMS name details
Caligus elongatus Heegaard, 1943
478342 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:478342)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Heegaard, P.E. (1943). Parasitic copepods mainly from tropical and antarctic seas. Arkiv för Zoologi (A)34(18):1-37, figs. 1-94. (14-v-1943) [details] Available for editors 
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Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Caligus elongatus Heegaard, 1943. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=478342 on 2025-12-17
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Nomenclature
original description
Heegaard, P.E. (1943). Parasitic copepods mainly from tropical and antarctic seas. Arkiv för Zoologi (A)34(18):1-37, figs. 1-94. (14-v-1943) [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]
[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
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source of synonymy
Ho, J.S. (1963). On five species of Formosan parasitic copepods belonging to the suborder Caligoida. Crustaceana, Leiden 5(2):81-98, figs. 1-22. (28-iii-1963) [details] Available for editors [request]
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additional source
Bell, S., J.E. Bron & C. Sommerville. (2000). The distribution of exocrine glands in Lepeophtheirus salmonis and Caligus elongatus (Copepoda: Caligidae). In: Schram, F.R. (ed.), Contributions to Zoology Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde. Proceedings of the third international workshop on sea lice, Amsterdam, July 22-24, 1998. 69(1-2):9-20. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Wootten, R., J.W. Smith & E.A. Needham. (1982). Aspects of the biology of the parasitic copepods Lepeophtheirus salmonis and Caligus elongatus on farmed salmonids, and their treatment. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B, Biological Sciences 81(3):185-197, figs. 1-2, pls. 1-2. (15-vii-1982) [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Wootten, R., J.W. Smith & E.A. Needham. (1982). Aspects of the biology of the parasitic copepods Lepeophtheirus salmonis and Caligus elongatus on farmed salmonids, and their treatment. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B, Biological Sciences 81(3):185-197, figs. 1-2, pls. 1-2. (15-vii-1982) [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
