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

Clavella adunca (Strøm, 1762)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Clavella*	Oken, 1815	accepted genus name
*Anchorella*	Cuvier, 1830	synonym

Species group names

*Lernaea adunca*	Strøm, 1762	synonym

Literature

original description	Strøm, H. (1762). Physisk og oeconomisk Beskrivelse over Fogderiet Sondmor, beligende i Bergens Stift i Norge. [Psychological and economic description of the Sundmor Ward, located in the Diocese of Bergen in Norway.]. Forste part, Soroe. 1-570, tabs. 1-4, map 1.
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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. The Ray Society, London. 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203.
additional source	Gjosaeter, J. (1987). Morphological and ecological studies of Clavella adunca (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae) on polar cod, Boreogadus saida. Sarsia 72(3-4):291-297, tabs. 1-8.
additional source	Scott, J.S. (1981). Alimentary tract parasites of haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus L.) on the Scotian Shelf. Canadian Journal of Zoology 59(12):2244-2252.
additional source	Ho, J.S. (1985). Copepod parasites of deep sea benthic fishes from the western North Atlantic. Parasitology, Cambridge 90(3):485-497, figs. 1-5. (vi-1985)
additional source	Schram, T.A. (1980). The parasitic Copepoda Clavella adunca (Strom), Haemobaphes cyclopterina (Fabricius), and Sphyrion lumpi (Kroyer) on polar cod, Boreogadus saida (Lepechin) from Spitzbergen. Sarsia, Bergen 65(3-4):273-286, figs. 1-8, tabs. 1-6. (21-xi-1980)
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	Nuñes-Ruivo, L. (1957). Contribution a l'étude des variations morphologiques de Clavella adunca (H. Strom), copépode parasite de Gadus callarias L., considérations sur quelques Clavella parasites des Gadidae. [Contribution to the study of the morphological variations of Clavella adunca (H. Strom), parasitic copepod of Gadus callarias L., considerations on some Clavella parasites of the Gadidae.]. Revista da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa. (2c)5(2):229-256, figs. 1-7.
additional source	Yanagimoto, T. & M. Ichimura. (2018). Genetic variations of two parasitic copepod species in gill of walleye pollock, Gadus chalcogrammus collected in the North Pacific. CANCER, Carcinological Society of Japan. 27:29-36. [In Japanese; English abstract].
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Klimpel, S., H.W. Palm, M.W. Busch, E. Kellermanns & S. Rückert. (2006). Fish parasites in the Arctic deep-sea: Poor diversity in pelagic fish species vs. heavy parasite load in a demersal fish. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 53(7):1167-1181.
additional source	Smith, J.W. (1969). The distribution of one monogenean and two copepod parasites of whiting, Merlangius merlangius (L.), caught in British waters. Nytt Magasin för Zoologi 17(1):57-63, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-6.
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.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Clavella adunca (Strøm, 1762). 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:135842