Marine Species Traits - Lernaea composita Wilson C.B., 1924

Copepoda taxon details

Lernaea composita Wilson C.B., 1924

AphiaID

352863 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:352863)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Lernaea Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Lernaea composita Wilson C.B., 1924

Synonymised names

Lernaea werneri (Kurtz, 1922) · unaccepted (synonym according to Harding (1950))

Lernaeocera werneri Kurtz, 1922 · unaccepted (synonym )

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Wilson, C.B. (1924). Parasitic copepods from the White Nile and the Red Sea. In: Jägerskiöld, A.L.K.E. (ed.). Results of the Swedish Zoological Expedition to Egypt and the White Nile 1901, 5(3):1-17, pls. 1-3. [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomic citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2021). World of Copepods database. Lernaea composita Wilson C.B., 1924. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=352863 on 2025-06-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-07-15 14:41:49Z

created

Walter, T. Chad

2017-03-16 16:15:13Z

changed

Boxshall, Geoff

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Attributes (2)

original description Wilson, C.B. (1924). Parasitic copepods from the White Nile and the Red Sea. In: Jägerskiöld, A.L.K.E. (ed.). Results of the Swedish Zoological Expedition to Egypt and the White Nile 1901, 5(3):1-17, pls. 1-3. [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Lernaeocera werneri Kurtz, 1922) Kurtz, H. (1922). Zwei neue Arten von Lernaeocera aus dem Nil. Two new species of Lernaeocera from the Nile. <em>Sitzungsberichte Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, Wien.</em> Abt. 1, 131: 327-337, pls. 1-2. [details]

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