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

Colobomatus Hesse, 1873

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Colobomatus agassizi (Richiardi, 1877)
Colobomatus baraldii (Richiardi, 1877)
Colobomatus benazzii Delamare Deboutteville & Nunes-Ruivo, 1952
Colobomatus bergyltae Hesse, 1873
Colobomatus canthari Delamare Deboutteville & Nunes-Ruivo, 1952
Colobomatus denticis (Richiardi, 1877)
Colobomatus doderleini (Richiardi, 1883)
Colobomatus edwardsi (Richiardi, 1876)
Colobomatus fiatolae (Richiardi, 1880)
Colobomatus grubei (Richiardi, 1877)
Colobomatus haeckeli (Richiardi, 1877)
Colobomatus labracis Delamare Deboutteville & Nunes Ruivo, 1952
Colobomatus lamnae Hesse, 1873
Colobomatus lichiae (Richiardi, 1877)
Colobomatus mugilis Raibaut, Caillet & Ben Hassine, 1978
Colobomatus mulli Essafi, Raibaut & Boudaoud-Krissat, 1983
Colobomatus muraenae (Richiardi, 1877)
Colobomatus oblatae Delamare Deboutteville & Nunes-Ruivo, 1952
Colobomatus pagelli (Richiardi, 1877)
Colobomatus pagri (Richiardi, 1877)
Colobomatus sciaenae (Richiardi, 1876)
Colobomatus sieboldi (Richiardi, 1877)
Colobomatus sparsi Essafi, 1982
Colobomatus steenstrupi (Richiardi, 1876)
Colobomatus vallei Essafi, Cabral & Raibaut, 1984

Literature

original description	Hesse, E. (1873). Memoire sur des crustaces rares ou nouveaux des côtes de France. (Vingt-deuxieme article). Memoire sur desu nouveaux Crustaces parasites, appartenant a la sousclasse de Crustaces suceurs, de l'ordre des Lerneides, de la famille des Lerneoapodiens, du genre des Colobomatiens. [Memoir on rare or new crustaceans from the coasts of France. (Twenty-second article). Memoir on new parasitic crustaceans, belonging to the subclass of sucking crustaceans, of the order of Lerneidae, of the family of Lerneoapodians, of the genus of Colobomatians.]. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Série Zoologie et Biologie Animale, Paris. 5(14):1-17, pl.24.
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	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
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	Delamare Deboutteville, C. & L.P. Nunes-Ruivo. (1952). Copépodes Philichthyidae nouveaux, parasites de poissons européens (I). [New Philichthyidae copepods, parasites of European fish (I).]. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 32(6):598-609, figs. 1-7.
additional source	Couto, J.V., F.G. Lessa, J.L. Luque, F.B. Pereira & F. Paschoal. (2022). New host and ﬁrst description of the male of Colobomatus stelliferi Pombo, Turra, Paschoal & Luque, 2015 (Copepoda: Philichthyidae), parasite of Umbrina canosai Berg, 1895 (Actinopterygii: Sciaenidae) off Brazil: improving the taxonomic knowledge pertaining to Colobomatus spp. Systematic Parasitology. 99(7):1-12. Dec 2022.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Colobomatus Hesse, 1873. 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:128694