Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Siphonostomatoida > Family Pandaridae

Perissopus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Perissopus dentatus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861

Literature

original description	Steenstrup, J.J.S. & C.F. Lütken. (1861). Bidrag til kundskab om det aabne havs snyltekrebs og lernæer samt om nogle andre nye eller hidtil kun ufuldstændigt kjendte parasitiske Copepoder. [Contribution to knowledge about the open sea parasitic crabs and mud crabs and about some other new or hitherto only incompletely known parasitic Copepods.]. Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, Naturhistorisk og Mathematisk Afdeling, Kjöbenhavn. (5)5: 343-432, pls. 1-15.
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	Wilson, C.B. (1907). North American parasitic copepods belonging to the family Caligidae. Parts 3 and 4.- A revision of the Pandarinae and the Cecropinae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 33(1573):323-490, pls. 17-43. (31-xii-1907).
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
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.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Perissopus Steenstrup & Lütken, 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:135639