Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Cyclopoida > Suborder Ergasilida

Ergasilidae Burmeister, 1835

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Ergasilus von Nordmann, 1832
Neoergasilus Yin, 1956
Nipergasilus Yamaguti, 1939
Paraergasilus Markevich, 1937
Thersitina Norman, 1905

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ニセエラジラミ科

Literature

original description	Burmeister, H. (1835). Beschreibung einiger neuen oder weniger bekannten Schmarotzerkrebse, nebst allgemeinen Betrachtungen über die Gruppe, welcher sie angehören. [Description of some new or lesser known parasitic crustaceans, together with general considerations about the group to which they belong.]. Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum (Acta der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher), Halle. 17(1):269-336, pls. 23, 24, 24a, 25.(for 1833).
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	Amado, M.A.P.M., J.S. Ho & C.E.F. Rocha. (1995). Phylogeny and biogeography of the Ergasilidae (Copepoda, Poecilostomatoida), with reconsideration of the taxonomic status of the Vaigamidae. Contributions to Zoology 65(4):233-243.
additional source	Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. The Ray Society, London. 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203.
additional source	Thatcher, V.E. (1991). Amazon fish parasites. Amazoniana 11(3-4):263-571.
additional source	Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA). 124 pp.
additional source	Wilson, C.B. (1911). North American parasitic copepods belonging to the family Ergasilidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 39(1788):263-400, pls. 41-60. (11-i-1911)
additional source	Markevich, A.P. (1956). Paraziticheskie veslonogie ryb SSSR. [Parasitic copepods of fishes of the USSR.]. Akademiya Nauk Ukraine SSR, Institut Zoology, Kiev. 259 pp. figs. 1-153.
additional source	Kabata, Z. (1988). Copepoda and Brachiura. In: Margolis, L. & Z. Kabata (eds.). Guide to the parasites of fishes of Canada. Part II. Crustacea. Canadian Special Publication in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 101:3-127, figs. 1-53. (French summary).
additional source	Marques Orsi, T.M. (2018). Sistemática e história evolutiva de Ergasilidae (Crustacea: Copepoda; Cyclopoida). [Systematics and evolutionary history of Ergasilidae (Crustacea: Copepoda; Cyclopoida).]. 203 pp. [In Portuguese and English]. Tese de Doutorado, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Ergasilidae Burmeister, 1835. 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:128571

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Ergasilidae Burmeister, 1835. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/68ad22a7-846d-470b-ba8a-bab9280a7151