Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Cyclopoida > Suborder Oithonida > Family Notodelphyidae > Genus Pachypygus

Pachypygus gibber (Thorell, 1859)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pachypygus*	Sars G.O., 1921	accepted genus name
*Agnathaner*	Canu, 1892	synonym

Species group names

*Agnathaner minutus*	Canu, 1892	synonym
*Doropygus gibber*	Thorell, 1859	synonym
*Pachypygus minutus*	(Canu, 1892)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ホヤノシラミ

Literature

basis of record	Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 252-268
additional source	Hipeau-Jacquotte, R. (1986). A new cephalic type of presumed sense organ with naked dendrite ends in the atypical male of the parasitic copepod Pachypygus gibber (Crustacea). Cell and Tissue Research. 245: 29-35, figs. 1-5.
additional source	Grassé, P.P. (1978). Existence de deux formes sexuelles males chez le Copepode ascidicole Notodelphyidae Pachypygus gibber (Thorell, 1859). [Existence of two male sexual forms in the ascidicolous Copepod Notodelphyidae Pachypygus gibber (Thorell, 1859).]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris. 287:253-256, figs.a-e.
additional source	Sars, G.O. (1921). Copepoda Monstrilloida and Notodelphyoida. Parts III & IV. Notodelphyidae (concluded), Doropygidae, Buproridae, Ascidicolidae). An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum, Bergen. 8:33-68, pls. 17-32.
additional source	Hipeau-Jacquotte, R. (1984). A new concept in the evolution of the Copepoda: Pachypygus gibber (Notodelphyidae), a species with two breeding males. In: Vervoort, W. (ed.). Studies on Copepoda II. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Copepoda, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24-28 August 1981. Crustaceana. supp. 7: 60-67, figs. 1-2, tab. 1.
additional source	Hipeau-Jacquotte, R. (1978). Développement post-embryonnaire du Copépode ascidicole Notodelphyidae pachypygus gibber (Thorell, 1859). [Postembryonic development of the ascidicolous copepod Notodelphyidae pachypygus gibber (Thorell, 1859).]. Crustaceana (Leiden). 34(2): 155-194, figs. 1-14, tabs. 1-20.
additional source	Illg, P.L. & P.L. Dudley. (1965). Notodelphyid copepods from the vicinity of Naples. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli 34:373-451, figs. 1-21. (23-ii-1965)
additional source	Ooishi, S. (1961). A notodelphyoid copepod, Pachypygus gibber (Thorell), newly found in Japan. Report of the Faculty of Fisheries, Prefectural University of Mie 4(1):81-86, figs. 1-2. (15-xii-1961)
additional source	Hipeau-Jacquotte, R. (1978). Existence de deux formes sexuelles mâles chez le Copépode ascidicole Notodelphyidae Pachypygus gibber (Thorell, 1859). [Existence of two male sexual forms in the ascidicolous copepod Notodelphyidae Pachypygus gibber (Thorell, 1859).]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris. 287(4): 253-256, figs. a-c, pl. 1.
additional source	Hipeau-Jacquotte, R. (1987). Ultrastructure and presumed function of the pleural dermal glands in the atypical male of the parasitic Copepod Pachypygus gibber (Crustacea: Notodelphyidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology. 7 (1): 60-70.
additional source	Hipeau-Jacquotte, R. (1980). Le développement atypique du Copépode ascidicole Notodelphyidae Pachypygus gibber (Thorell, 1859). Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale. 121(1):29-47, figs. 1-9, tabs. 1-12.
additional source	Kim, I.H. (2012). Arthropoda, Maxillopoda, Copepoda, Cyclopoida : ascidicolous copepods. Invertebrate Fauna of Korea, Kungnip Saengmul Chawon'gwan (Korea). 21(20):138 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Pachypygus gibber (Thorell, 1859). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106636