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

Caligus gurnardi Krøyer, 1863

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Caligus*	Müller O.F., 1785	accepted genus name
*Caligopsis*	Markevich, 1940	junior homonym
*Scienophilus*	Beneden, 1852	orthographic variant
*Markevichus*	Özdikmen, 2008	synonym
*Pseudocaligus*	Scott A., 1901	synonym
*Sciaenophilus*	Beneden, 1852	synonym

Species group names

*Caligus angustatus*	Krøyer, 1863	synonym

Literature

original description	Krøyer, H. (1863-1864). Bidrag til Kundskab om Snyltekrebsene. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift Ser. III. 2(1/2): 75-320, pls. 1-9 [1863]; 2(3): 321-426, pls. 10-18 [1864].
additional source	Parker, R.R. (1968). Caligus appendiculatus F. Müller, 1852 (Crustacea: Copepoda): a request for suppression under the plenary powers. Z.N.(S.)1839. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 25(2-3):105-106. (ix-1968)
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	Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. The Ray Society, London. 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203.
redescription	Parker, R.R. (1965). A review and redescription of Caligus gurnardi Kroyer, 1863 (Copepoda, Caligidae). Crustaceana, Leiden 9(1):93-103, figs. 1-10, tab. 1. (15-vii-1965)

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Caligus gurnardi Krøyer, 1863. 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:357615