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

Pseudomyicola spinosus (Raffaele & Monticelli, 1885)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted
Name Status: alternate representation

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pseudomyicola*	Yamaguti, 1936	accepted genus name
*Midicola*	Sowinsky, 1884	synonym

Children

Pseudomyicola spinosus spinosus (Raffaele & Monticelli, 1885)

Literature

original description	Raffaele, F. & F.S. Monticelli. (1885). Descrizione di un nuovo Lichomolgus parassita del Mytilus galloprovincialis Lk. [Description of a new Lichomolgus parasite of Mytilus galloprovincialis Lk.]. Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Classe di Scienze Fisiche Matematiche e Naturali Rendiconti. (4)1:302-307, pl. 1.
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	Streftaris, N., A. Zenetos & E. Papathanassiou. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogry and Marine Biology: an Annual Review. 43: 419-453.
additional source	Ho, J.S. (1980). Origin and dispersal of Mytilus edulis in Japan deduced from its present status of copepod parasitism. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 25(5-6):293-313, figs.1-8.
additional source	Ho, J.S. & I.H. Kim. (1991). Copepod parasites of commercial bivalves in Korea. II. Copepods from cultured bivalves. Bulletin of the Korean Fisheries Society 24(6):369-396. (xi.1991)
additional source	Do, T.T. & T. Kajihara. (1986). Studies on parasitic copepod fauna and biology of Pseudomyicola spinosus, associated with blue mussel, Mytilus edulis galloprovincialis in Japan. Bulletin of the Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo 23:1-63, figs. 1-28, tabs. 1-10. (ix.1986)
additional source	Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.).
additional source	Carneiro-Schaefer, A.L., S. Suhnel, C.M.R. de Melo & A.R.M. Magalhaes. (2017). Record of Pseudomyicola spinosus in cultured Perna perna from southern Brazil. Boletim Do Instituto De Pesca, 43(1):140-151.
additional source	Laubier, L. & D. Reyss. (1964). Sub-spéciation chez un Copépode parasite Pseudomyicola spinosus (Raff. & Mont.) et description de deux sous-espèces nouvelles. [Subspeciation in a parasitic copepod Pseudomyicola spinosus (Raff. & Mont.) and description of two new subspecies.]. Vie et Milieu, Supplément. 17:291-308, figs. 1-4, tabs. 1-3. (v-1964).
additional source	Suh, H.L. & S.D. Choi. (1990). Two copepods (Crustacea) parasitic on the blue mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis, from the Yongsan River Estuary in Korea. Bulletin of the Korean Fisheries Society 23(2):137-140.
additional source	Kajihara, T. & K. Nakamura. (1985). Life span and oviposition of the parasitic copepod Pseudomyicola spinosus under rearing conditions. Marine Biology, Berlin. 87(1):55-60.
additional source	Dethlefsen, V. (1974). Seasonal fluctuations in two parasitic copepods Mytilicola intestinalis Steuer and Modiolicola insignis Aurivillius. Berichte der Deutschen Wissenschaftlichen Kommission fur Meeresforschung, new series. 23(4): 376-392, figs. 1-12, tabs. 1-2.
additional source	Ho, J.S. (2001). Why do symbiotic copepods matter? In: Lopes, R.M., J.W. Reid & C.E.F. Rocha (eds.). Hydrobiologia 156, Developments in Hydrobiology 156, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Copepoda, held in Curitiba, Brazil, 25-31 July 1999. 453/454:1-7.
additional source	Stock, J.H. (1959). Copepoda associated with Neapolitan Mollusca. Pubblicazione della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli 31(1):43-58, figs. 1-7. (30-ix-1959)
additional source	Kajihara, T., M. Hayashi & K. Nakamura. (1980). Rearing method of a parasitic copepod, Pseudomyicola spinosus (Cyclopoida), in laboratory. Bulletin of the Plankton Society of Japan 27(2):123-124. (xii-1980)
additional source	Do, T.T., T. Kajihara & J.S. Ho. (1984). The life history of Pseudomyicola spinosus (Raffaele & Monticelli, 1885) from the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis galloprovincialis in Tokyo Bay, Japan, with notes on the production of Bulletin of the Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo 17:i-ii, 1-65, figs. 1-36, tabs. 1-8. (ix-1984)
additional source	Humes, A.G. (1968). Lecanurius kossmannianus, a new cyclopoid copepod parasitic in holothurians in Madagascar. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 81(1):179-190, figs. 1-32. (30-viii-1968)
additional source	Kajihara, T. & K. Nakamura. (1985). Lifespan and oviposition of the parasitic copepod Pseudomyicola spinosus under rearing conditions. Marine Biology, Berlin 87(1):55-60, fig. 1, tabs. 1-5. (vi-1985)

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Pseudomyicola spinosus (Raffaele & Monticelli, 1885). 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:128899