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

Anthosoma crassum (Abildgaard, 1794)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Anthosoma*	Leach, 1816	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Caligus crassus*	Abildgaard, 1794	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ハナガタムシ

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	Brian, A. (1944). Copépodos parasitos de peces y cetaceos del Museo Argentino de Ciencias naturales. [Copepods parasitic on fish and cetaceans from the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences.]. Anales del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (Buenos Aires). 41:193-220, pls. 1-10. (vii-1944).
additional source	Barnard, K.H. (1955). South African parasitic Copepoda. Annals of the South African Museum. 41(5):223-312, figs. 1-33. (ii-1955).
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Della Valle, A. (1881). Crostacei parassiti dei pesci del Mare Adriatico. [Crustaceans parasitic on fish in the Adriatic Sea.]. Bollettino della Società Adriatica di Scienze Naturali, Trieste. 6(1):55-90. [for 1880].
additional source	Wilson, C.B. (1932). The copepods of the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 158:1-635, figs. 1-316, pls. 1-41.
additional source	Hogans, W.E. (1995). Parasitic Copepoda in the collection of the Atlantic Reference Centre, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2028:1-6.
additional source	Lewis, A.G. (1969). A discussion of the maxillae of the 'Caligoidea' (Copepoda). Crustaceana, Leiden 16(2):65-77, figs. 1-4. (31-i-1969)
additional source	Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.).
additional source	Fontes, E.M. (1949). Un nuevo huésped de 'Anthosoma crassum' (Abd) en el mar Argentina (Crustacea: Copepoda). [A new host of 'Anthosoma crassum' (Abd) in the Argentine Sea (Crustacea: Copepoda).]. Physis, Buenos Aires. 20(5):185-187, fig. 1.
additional source	Lewis, A.G. (1966). Copepod crustaceans parasitic on elasmobranch fishes of the Hawaiian islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 118(324):7-14, figs. 1-40. (12-iv-1966).
additional source	Birkett, L. & A.C. Burd. (1952). A new host for the copepod Anthosoma crassum (Abildgaard), 1794. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London. (12)5:391-392, fig. (iv-1952).
additional source	Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. The Ray Society, London. 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203.
additional source	Martínez-Fontes, E. (1949). Un nuevo huésped de 'Anthosoma crassum' (Abd) en el mar Argentina (Crustacea: Copepoda). [A new host of 'Anthosoma crassum' (Abd) in the Argentine sea (Crustacea: Copepoda).]. Physis, Buenos Aires. 20(5):185-187, fig. 1. (Spanish).
additional source	Heegaard, P.E. (1962). Parasitic Copepoda from Australian waters. Records of the Australian Museum 25(9):149-234, figs. 1-250. (28-v-1962)
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	Pilgrim, R.L.C. (1985). Parasitic Copepoda from marine coastal fishes in the Kaikoura-Banks Peninsula Region, South Island, New Zealand. With a key for their identification. Mauri Ora 12:13-53, figs. 1-63.
additional source	Ho, J.S. & I.H. Kim. (1996). Copepods parasitic on fishes of western North Pacific. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 37(3/6):275-303. (xii-1996; errata sheet)
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. Anthosoma crassum (Abildgaard, 1794). 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:135797