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Caligus tenuis (Beneden, 1852)

933782 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:933782)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Arthropoda
  4. Crustacea
  5. Multicrustacea
  6. Copepoda
  7. Neocopepoda
  8. Podoplea
  9. Siphonostomatoida
  10. Caligidae
  11. Caligus
  12. Caligus tenuis
accepted
Species
Caligus Müller O.F., 1785
Sciaenophilus tenuis Beneden, 1852 · unaccepted (generic transfer)
marine
(of Sciaenophilus tenuis Beneden, 1852) Beneden, P.J. van. (1852). Note sur un nouveau genre de Crustacé parasite de la famille des Peltocéphales. [Note on a new genus of parasitic Crustacean of the Caligidae family.]. <em>Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique.</em> 19(3):462-467, pl. 1. (look up in RoR) [details] OpenAccess publication
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Caligus tenuis (Beneden, 1852). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org//www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=933782 on 2026-07-16
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Caligus tenuis (Beneden, 1852). Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=933782 on 2026-07-16
Date
action
by
2017-01-10 16:33:36Z
created
Boxshall, Geoff
2019-07-05 18:51:56Z
changed
Walter, T. Chad

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original description (of Sciaenophilus tenuis Beneden, 1852) Beneden, P.J. van. (1852). Note sur un nouveau genre de Crustacé parasite de la famille des Peltocéphales. [Note on a new genus of parasitic Crustacean of the Caligidae family.]. <em>Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique.</em> 19(3):462-467, pl. 1. (look up in RoR) [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Dippenaar, S.M. & M.M. Sebone. (2025). Caligus (Caligidae: Siphonostomatoida) species off southern Africa with the description of C. pillaii sp. nov. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5686(2): 151-197., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5686.2.1 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

new combination reference Gerstaecker, A. (1866). Spaltfüssler: Copepoda. [Oar-footed: Copepoda.]. <em>In: Bronn, H.G. (ed.). Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreiches, 5 Abt.</em> 1: Crustacea, 590-806, pls. 7-15 (1879). [details] OpenAccess publication

status source 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  PDF available
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Sciaenophilus tenuis Beneden, 1852)
To PESI (from synonym Sciaenophilus tenuis Beneden, 1852)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Sciaenophilus tenuis Beneden, 1852)
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