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

Ommatokoita elongata (Grant, 1827)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ommatokoita*	Leigh-Sharpe, 1926	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Lernaea elongata*	Grant, 1827	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	Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. The Ray Society, London. 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203.
additional source	Berland, B. (1961). Copepod Ommatokoita elongata (Grant) in the eyes of the Greenland shark - a possible cause of mutual dependence. Nature, London. 191(4790):829-830. (19.viii.1961).
additional source	Beck, B. & A.W. Mansfield. (1969). Observations on the Greenland shark, Somniosus microcephalus, in northern Baffin Island. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 26(1):143-145, figs. 1-4, tab. 1. (i-1969)
additional source	Idrobo, C.J. (2008). The Pangnirtung Inuit and the Greenland shark. M.N.R.M. Thesis, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 136 pp.
additional source	Borucinska, J.D., G.W. Benz & H.E. Whiteley. (1998). Ocular lesions associated with attachment of the parasitic copepod Ommatokoita elongata (Grant) to corneas of Greenland sharks, Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch & Schneider). Journal of Fish Diseases. 21(6):415-422. (xi.1998).
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. Ommatokoita elongata (Grant, 1827). 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:135874