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

Paraergasilus longidigitus Yin, 1954

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Paraergasilus*	Markevich, 1937	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Yin, W.Y. (1954). Parergasilus, a new genus of parasitic copepods new to China with two new species from pond-fishes. Acta Zoologica Sinica 6(1):23-31, figs. 1-18. (Chinese with English summary)
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	Gusev, A.V. (1987). Class Crustacea Lamarck, 1801. In: Bauer, O.N. (ed.). Key to the Parasites of Freshwater Fishes of the USSR. Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR, Zoologicheskii Instituta SSSR. Nauka, Leningrad 3(149):378-432.
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	Purasjoki, K.J. & H.P. Fagerholm. (1987). Paraergasilus nordmanni sp. n. and Paraergasilus longidigitus (Copepoda: Ergasilidae) as parasites of fish in Finland. Abhandlungen des Akademie Parasitologie Institute Inf. 19:35.
additional source	Do, T.T. (1982). Paraergasilus longidigitus Yin, 1954 (Copepoda, Poecilostomatoida) parasitic on Japanese freshwater fishes, with a key to Japanese Ergasilidae. Fish Pathology (Gyobyu Kenkyu), University of Tokyo 17(2):139-145, figs. 1-14. (ix-1982, Japanese summary)
additional source	Kuang, P.R. & J.H. Qian. (1991). Parasitic Crustacea of Freshwater Fishes. Economic Fauna of China. Editorial Committee of Fauna Sinica, Academia Sinica, Science Press, Beijing 203pp. (In Chinese.)

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Paraergasilus longidigitus Yin, 1954. 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:128831

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Paraergasilus longidigitus Yin, 1954. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/797c80ca-a31d-4c72-9aa6-30f6b025ba4b