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

Bomolochus bellones Burmeister, 1835

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Bomolochus*	von Nordmann, 1832	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ダツエラジラミ

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	Ho, J.S., T.T. Do & S. Kasahara. (1983). Copepods of the family Bomolochidae parasitic on fishes of Kojima Bay, Okayama Prefecture. Journal of the Faculty of Applied Biological Science, Hiroshima University 22(1):1-41, figs. 1-162. (viii-1983)
additional source	Hartmann, R. (1870). Beiträge zur anatomischen Kenntnis der Schmarotzerkrebse. 1. Ueber Bomolochus belones Burm. [Contributions to the anatomical knowledge of parasitic crustaceans. 1. On Bomolochus belones Burm.]. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie, und wissenschaftliche Medizin. 1870:116-158, pls. 3-4.
additional source	Pillai, N.K. (1985). Copepod Parasites of Marine Fishes. In: The Fauna of India. Zoological Society of India, Calcutta. 900pp., figs. 1-279.
additional source	Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. The Ray Society, London. 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203.
additional source	Kim, I.H. (2014). Arthropoda, Maxillopoda, Copepoda, Cyclopoida : Fish-Parasitic Cyclopoid Copepods. Invertebrate Fauna of Korea, National Institute of Biological Resources, Ministry of Environment(Korea). 21(37):226 pp.
additional source	Della Valle, A. (1881). Crostacei parassiti dei pesci del Mare Adriatico. [Crustaceans parasitic on fish in the Adriatic Sea.]. Bollettino della Società Adriatica di Scienze Naturali, Trieste. 6(1):55-90. [for 1880].
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.
redescription	Izawa, K. (2023). Redescription of Bomolochus bellones Burmeister, 1835 (Copepoda, Cyclopoida, Bomolochidae) recovered from Cololabis saira (Brevoort, 1856) (Actinopterygii) in Japan, with descriptions of the male and copepodids v-iii of the species. Crustaceana. 96(1):73-86. Jan 2023.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Bomolochus bellones 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:128745