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

Chondracanthus nodosus (Müller O.F., 1776)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Chondracanthus*	Delaroche, 1811	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Lernaea nodosa*	Müller O.F., 1776	synonym

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	Leigh-Sharpe, W.H. & M.G.L. Perkins. (1924). Some parasitic Copepoda from Iceland, with an account of Peniculus clavatus, the conjunctive tubus of Chondracanthus nodosus, and the males of Clavella dubia. Parasitology, Cambridge 16:289-295, figs. 1-8. (vii-1924)
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. The Ray Society, London. 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203.
additional source	Ho, J.S. (1971). Parasitic copepods of the family Chondracanthidae from fishes of eastern North America. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 87:1-38, figs. 1-26. (7-vii-1971).
additional source	Hogans, W.E. (1993). Guide to common external parasites of fishes of the Canadian Atlantic: I. Crustacea: Isopoda, Amphipoda, Brachiura & Copepoda. ARC Species ID Leaflet #93-01-INV.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Chondracanthus nodosus (Müller O.F., 1776). 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:128767