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 ligusticus Brian, 1906

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	Brian, A. (1906). Copepodi parassiti dei Pesci d'Italia. [Copepods parasitic on Italian fish.]. Stab. Tipo-Litografico R. Istituto Sordomuti, Genova, Publishers. 1-191, figs. 1-4, pls. 1-21.
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	Brian, A. (1935). I Caligus parassiti dei pesci del Mediterraneo (Copepodi). [Caligus parasites of Mediterranean fish (Copepods).]. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 'Giacomo Doria', Genova. 57:152-211, figs. 1-20. (10-vi-1935).
additional source	Brian, A. (1924). Copepoda. Copepodes commensaux et parasites des cotes Mauritaniennes. [Copepoda. Commensal and parasitic copepods of the Mauritanian coasts.]. In: Parasitologica Mauritanica. Matériaux pour la faune parasitologique en Mauritanie. 1(1):1-66, figs. 1-67, also Bulletin du Comitae d'etudes Historiques et Scientifiques de l'Afrique Occidentale Francoaise 9:363-427, figs. 1-69.
redescription	Demirkale, I., A.A. Ozak & G.A. Boxshall. (2015). The discovery of the male of Caligus ligusticus Brian, 1906 (Copepoda: Caligidae) parasitic on the sand steenbras Lithognathus mormyrus (L.) in the eastern Mediterranean. Systematic Parasitology, 91(1):81-90.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Caligus ligusticus Brian, 1906. 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:135762