WoRMS name details
Caligus bennetti Causey, 1953
349570 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:349570)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Sinaloa, Mexico; Grand Isle, Louisiana; Port Aransas, Texas; Venezuela; Trivandrum, India; Veracruz, Mexico; and Taiwan.
Distribution Sinaloa, Mexico; Grand Isle, Louisiana; Port Aransas, Texas; Venezuela; Trivandrum, India; Veracruz, Mexico; and Taiwan. [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2026). World of Copepods Database. Caligus bennetti Causey, 1953. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=349570 on 2026-10-16
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Nomenclature
original description
Causey, D.L. (1953). Parasitic Copepoda from Grand Isle, Louisiana. <em>Occasional Papers of the Marine Laboratory of Louisiana State University.</em> 7:1-18, figs. 1-22. (1-iii-1953). [details] Available for editors 
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[request]Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Özak, A.A., A. Yanar & G.A. Boxshall. (2017). The discovery of Caligus macrurus Heller, 1865 (Copepoda: Caligidae) in the Mediterranean Sea, and the recognition of Sciaenophilus van Beneden, 1852 as a junior synonym of Caligus Muller, 1785. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> 94(1):97-109., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-016-9682-4 [details] Available for editors [request]
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additional source
Ho, J.S. & A.K.M. Bashirullah. (1977). Two species of caligid copepods (Crustacea) parasitic on marine fishes of Venezuela, with discussion of Metacaligus Thomsen, 1949. Journal of Natural History 11(6):703-714, figs. 1-5. (1-xi-1977), available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937700770601 [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 Kirtisinghe, P. (1964). A review of the parasitic copepods of fish recorded from Ceylon, with descriptions of additional forms. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Station, Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 17(1):45-132, figs. 1-191. (vi-1964) [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]
[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 Kirtisinghe, P. (1964). A review of the parasitic copepods of fish recorded from Ceylon, with descriptions of additional forms. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Station, Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 17(1):45-132, figs. 1-191. (vi-1964) [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
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
