PeRMS taxon details
Ommatokoita elongata (Grant, 1827)
135874 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135874)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Grant, R.E. (1827). On the structure and characters of the Lernaea elongata, Gr., a new species from the Arctic Seas. Edinburgh Journal of Science 7:147-154, pl. 2 fig. 5. [details] 
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Ommatokoita elongata (Grant, 1827). Accessed through: Santamaría, J.; Romero, C.; Meza, M. (Eds) (2025) Peruvian Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Perms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135874 on 2025-12-08
Santamaría, J.; Romero, C.; Meza, M. (Eds) (2025). Peruvian Register of Marine Species. Ommatokoita elongata (Grant, 1827). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Perms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135874 on 2025-12-08
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(of ) Grant, R.E. (1827). On the structure and characters of the Lernaea elongata, Gr., a new species from the Arctic Seas. Edinburgh Journal of Science 7:147-154, pl. 2 fig. 5. [details]
context source (PeRMS) Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru. Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. <em>Neotropical Helminthology.</em> 10(2), jul-dic: 301-375. [details] Available for editors
basis of record Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 252-268 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Berland, B. (1961). Copepod Ommatokoita elongata (Grant) in the eyes of the Greenland shark - a possible cause of mutual dependence. <em>Nature, London.</em> 191(4790):829-830. (19.viii.1961). [details] Available for editors
additional source Beck, B. & A.W. Mansfield. (1969). Observations on the Greenland shark, Somniosus microcephalus, in northern Baffin Island. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 26(1):143-145, figs. 1-4, tab. 1. (i-1969) [details] Available for editors
additional source Benz, G.W., J.D. Borucinska, L.F. Lowry & H.E. Whiteley. (2002). Ocular lesions associated with attachment of the copepod Ommatokoita elongata (Lernaeopodidae: Siphonostomatoida) to corneas of pacific sleeper sharks Somniosus pacificus captured off Alaska in Prince William sound. Journal of Parasitology 88(3): 474-481. [details] Available for editors
additional source Benz, G.W., Z. Lucas & L.F. Lowry. (1998). New host and ocean records for the copepod Ommatokoita elongata (Siphonostomatoida: Lernaeopodidae), a parasite of the eyes of sleeper sharks. Journal of Parasitology 84(6):1271-1274. (xii.1998) [details] Available for editors
additional source Borucinska, J.D., G.W. Benz & H.E. Whiteley. (1998). Ocular lesions associated with attachment of the parasitic copepod Ommatokoita elongata (Grant) to corneas of Greenland sharks, Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch & Schneider). <em>Journal of Fish Diseases.</em> 21(6):415-422. (xi.1998). [details] Available for editors
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
additional source Markevich, A.P. (1956). Paraziticheskie veslonogie ryb SSSR. [Parasitic copepods of fishes of the USSR.]. <em>Akademiya Nauk Ukraine SSR, Institut Zoology, Kiev.</em> 259 pp. figs. 1-153. [details] Available for editors
additional source Idrobo, C.J. (2008). The Pangnirtung Inuit and the Greenland shark. <em>M.N.R.M. Thesis, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.</em> 136 pp., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/1993/21490 [details] Available for editors
context source (PeRMS) Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru. Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. <em>Neotropical Helminthology.</em> 10(2), jul-dic: 301-375. [details] Available for editors
basis of record Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 252-268 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Berland, B. (1961). Copepod Ommatokoita elongata (Grant) in the eyes of the Greenland shark - a possible cause of mutual dependence. <em>Nature, London.</em> 191(4790):829-830. (19.viii.1961). [details] Available for editors
additional source Beck, B. & A.W. Mansfield. (1969). Observations on the Greenland shark, Somniosus microcephalus, in northern Baffin Island. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 26(1):143-145, figs. 1-4, tab. 1. (i-1969) [details] Available for editors
additional source Benz, G.W., J.D. Borucinska, L.F. Lowry & H.E. Whiteley. (2002). Ocular lesions associated with attachment of the copepod Ommatokoita elongata (Lernaeopodidae: Siphonostomatoida) to corneas of pacific sleeper sharks Somniosus pacificus captured off Alaska in Prince William sound. Journal of Parasitology 88(3): 474-481. [details] Available for editors
additional source Benz, G.W., Z. Lucas & L.F. Lowry. (1998). New host and ocean records for the copepod Ommatokoita elongata (Siphonostomatoida: Lernaeopodidae), a parasite of the eyes of sleeper sharks. Journal of Parasitology 84(6):1271-1274. (xii.1998) [details] Available for editors
additional source Borucinska, J.D., G.W. Benz & H.E. Whiteley. (1998). Ocular lesions associated with attachment of the parasitic copepod Ommatokoita elongata (Grant) to corneas of Greenland sharks, Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch & Schneider). <em>Journal of Fish Diseases.</em> 21(6):415-422. (xi.1998). [details] Available for editors
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
additional source Markevich, A.P. (1956). Paraziticheskie veslonogie ryb SSSR. [Parasitic copepods of fishes of the USSR.]. <em>Akademiya Nauk Ukraine SSR, Institut Zoology, Kiev.</em> 259 pp. figs. 1-153. [details] Available for editors
additional source Idrobo, C.J. (2008). The Pangnirtung Inuit and the Greenland shark. <em>M.N.R.M. Thesis, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.</em> 136 pp., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/1993/21490 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
