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

Lepeophtheirus sturionis (Krøyer, 1838)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lepeophtheirus*	von Nordmann, 1832	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Caligus sturionis*	Krøyer, 1837	synonym

Literature

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	Guibe, J. (1935). Deux Copépodes parasites de l'esturgeon. [Two Copepod parasites of sturgeon.]. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie. (8)8:4-6.
additional source	Gusev, A.V. (1987). Class Crustacea Lamarck, 1801. In: Bauer, O.N. (ed.). Key to the Parasites of Freshwater Fishes of the USSR. Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR, Zoologicheskii Instituta SSSR. Nauka, Leningrad 3(149):378-432.
additional source	Markevich, A.P. (1937). Copepoda parasitica prisnikh vod SRSR. Copepoda parasitica der Binnengewässer der USSR. [Copepods parasitic on freshwater fishes of the USSR.]. Institut Zoologii i Biologii, Akademiya Nauk Ukrainii SSR, Kiev. :1-223, figs. 1-10, pls. 1-27.
additional source	Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. The Ray Society, London. 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203.
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.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Lepeophtheirus sturionis (Krøyer, 1838). 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:135783