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 lacustris Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861

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

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	Kaj, J. (1953). Caligus lacustris Stp. et Ltk. Materialy po znajomósci pasozytniczych widonogów Polski.[ Caligus lacustris Stp. et Ltk. a new freshwater parasitic copepod of Poland.]. Polskie Archiwum Hydrobiologii. 1(14):45-48.
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	Schwarz, S. (1960). Zur Crustaceenfauna der Brackwassergebiete Rügens und des Darss. (Acartia tonsa, Caligus lacustris, Microdeutopus gryllotalpa). [The crustacean fauna of the brackish water areas of Rügen and the Darss. (Acartia tonsa, Caligus lacustris, Microdeutopus gryllotalpa). Hydrobiologia. 16(3):293-300, figs. 1-6, tabs. 1-2. (15-xii-1960).
additional source	Purasjoki, K.J. (1982). Studies on the parasitic copepod Caligus lacustris. Tvärminne Stud. 2:15. (Abstract.)
additional source	Richters, F. (1876). Caligus lacustris Stp. & Lutk. Verhandlungen des Vereins fur Naturwissenschaftliche Unterhaltung zu Hamburg. 2:244-245.
additional source	Redeke, H.C. (1939). Das Männchen von Caligus lacustris Stp. et Ltk. [The male of Caligus lacustris Stp. et Ltk.]. Internationale Revue der Gesamten Hydrobiologie und Hydrographie. 38:193-202, figs. 1-3.
redescription	Boxshall, G.A. & J.P. Bernot. (2023). Resolving taxonomic and nomenclatural problems in the genus Caligus O.F. Müller, 1785 (Copepoda: Caligidae). Zootaxa. 5360(4): 545-567.
redescription	Gusev, A.V. & Z. Kabata. (1991). Redescription of, and comments on, Caligus lacustris Steenstrup et Lütken, 1861 (Copepoda, Caligidae), a parasite of freshwater fishes. Folia Parasitologica, Prague 38(1):57-61.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Caligus lacustris 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:135759

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Caligus lacustris Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/04ca05a9-4ce7-4eae-bd12-d1a6e5d8ace0