Copepoda taxon details
original description
Wilson, C.B. (1911). North American parasitic copepods. Descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 39(1805):625-634, pls. 65-68. (11-iii-1911) [details] 
original description
(of Lepeophtheirus elongatus 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]
additional source
Benz, G.W., P.J. Mohan & G.L. Crow. (1992). Developmental stages of Paralebion elongatus from aquarium-held reef whitetip sharks (Triaenodon obesus) captured in Hawaiian waters. Journal of Parasitology 78(6):1027-1035, ilustr. [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): 516 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Wilson, C.B. (1935). Parasitic copepods from the Dry Tortugas. Papers of the Tortugas Laboratory 29(12):329-347, pls. 1-6. (Publs. Carnegie Inst. Wash. 452). (9-xii-1935). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Ding, D.S., Y.Y. Chen, C.H. Chen & Y.R. Cheng. (2021). The first occurrence of Paralebion elongatus (Siphonostomatoida: Caligidae) parasite on sharptooth lemon shark, Negaprion acutidens, in the West Pacific, with a full description of a chalimus-like stage. <em>Journal Fisheries Society Taiwan.</em> 48(3):161-175., available online at https://doi.org/10.29822/JFST.202109/SP_48(3).0005 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Bernot, J.P, G.A. Boxshall, T.C. Kihara & P.M. Arbizu. (2025). An Updated Key to the Genera of Caligidae (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida.). <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 111(1):10-25., available online at https://doi.org/10.1645/24-97 [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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