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 Thersitina

Thersitina gasterostei (Pagenstecher, 1861)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Thersitina*	Norman, 1905	accepted genus name
*Thersites*	Pagenstecher, 1861	synonym

Species group names

*Theristes gasterostei*	Pagenstecher, 1861	objective synonym
*Thersites gasterostei*	Pagenstecher, 1861	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	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	Gusev, A.V. (1951). Parazitičeskie Copepoda s nekotoryh morskih ryb. [Parasitic Copepoda of some marine fishes.]. Parazitičeskij sbornik Zoologičeskogo instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR. 13: 394-463, figs. 1-37. (Russian).
additional source	Sadler, K. (1977). Host parasite relationship of two copepod parasites of freshwater fishes (Lernaea cyprinacea and Thersitina gasterostei) and of the parasites of the three-spined sticklebacks in Wintersett Reservoir. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K.
additional source	Ohtsuka, S., J.S. Ho, K. Nagasawa, J. Morozinska-Gogol & W. Piasecki. (2004). The identity of Limnoncaea diuncata Kokubo, 1914 (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida) from Hokkaido, Japan, with the relegation of Diergasilus Do, 1981 to a junior synonym of Thersitina Norman, 1905. Systematic Parasitology 57(1):35-44.
additional source	Markevich, A.P. (1937). Copepoda parasitica prisnikh vod SRSR. Copepoda parasitica der Binnengewässer der USSR. [Copepods parasitic on freshwater fishes of the USSR.]. Institut Zoologii i Biologii, Akademiya Nauk Ukrainii SSR, Kiev. :1-223, figs. 1-10, pls. 1-27.
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	Lang, K. (1949). On some Swedish marine semi-parasitic and parasitic copepods. Arkiv för Zoologi. (A)42(22):1-10, figs. 1-15. (28-ix-1949).
additional source	Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. The Ray Society, London. 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Gurney, R. (1933). Some notes on the parasitic copepod Thersitina gasterostei Pagenstecher. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(12):415-424.
additional source	Gurney, R. (1913). Some notes on the parasitic copepod Thersitina gasterostei, Pagenstecher. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)12:415-424, pls. 10-13. (xi-1913)
additional source	Capart, A. (1944). Notes sur les Copépodes parasites. II. A propos de quatres Copépodes parasites d'eau douce, rares ou nouveaux pour la Belgique. [Notes on Parasitic Copepods. II. About four freshwater parasitic Copepods, rare or new to Belgium.]. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de la Belgique. 20(22):1-4, fig. 1.
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.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Thersitina gasterostei (Pagenstecher, 1861). 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:128832

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Thersitina gasterostei (Pagenstecher, 1861). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/46c168bc-5dd1-4dec-9195-9bd67cb5f94d