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

Dichelesthium oblongum (Abildgaard, 1794)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Caligus Müller O.F., 1785

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dichelesthium*	Hermann, 1804	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Caligus oblongus*	Abildgaard, 1794	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	Wilson, C.B. (1922). North American parasitic copepods belonging to the family Dichelestiidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60(5)(2400):1-100, pls. 1-13. (22-iii-1922).
additional source	Markevich, A.P. (1934). Skorupiaki pasorzytnicze ryb Ukrainy. Die Schmarotzerkrebse der Fische der Ukraine. [Parasitic crustaceans of fish of Ukraine.]. Annales du Musée de Zoologie Polonaise. 10(12):223-249, pls. 44-45. (9-v-1934).
additional source	Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. The Ray Society, London. 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203.
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	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	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	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	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	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	Brown, A. (2010). Life cycle and population dynamics of the marine ectoparasite Dichelesthium oblongum (Copepoda: Dichelesthiidae) on Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus). M.S. Thesis, Stony Brook Universtiy. 78 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Dichelesthium oblongum (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:135798

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Dichelesthium oblongum (Abildgaard, 1794). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/7e21f042-d562-48bf-be4d-234dc1975fae