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

Lernaeopoda galei Krøyer, 1837

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lernaeopoda*	Blainville, 1822	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Barnard, K.H. (1955). South African parasitic Copepoda. Annals of the South African Museum. 41(5):223-312, figs. 1-33. (ii-1955).
original description	Krøyer, H. (1837). Om Snyltekrebsene, isaer med Hensyn til den danske Fauna. III. Formbeskrivelser (Fortsaettelse).[Concerning parasitic Crustacea with special reference to the Danish fauna. ]. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift Ser. I. 1(3): 252-302, pl. 3.
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	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	Leigh-Sharpe, W.H. (1919). The genus Lernaeopoda, including a description of L. mustelicola n. sp., remarks on L. galei and further observations on L. scyllicola. Parasitology, Cambridge 11:256-266, figs.1-7.
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	Beneden, P.J. van. (1851). Recherches sur quelques Crustacés inférieurs. [Research on some lower Crustaceans.]. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Série Zoologie et Biologie Animale, Paris. (3)16:71-131, pls. 2-6.
additional source	Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. The Ray Society, London. 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203.
additional source	Wilson, C.B. (1915). North American parasitic copepods belonging to the Lernaeopodidae, with a revision of the entire family. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47(2063): 565-729, pls. 25-56, figs. 1-15. (6-iii-1915).

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Lernaeopoda galei Krøyer, 1837. 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:135857