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

Salmincola edwardsii (Olsson, 1869)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Lernaeopoda Blainville, 1822

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Salmincola*	Wilson C.B., 1915	accepted genus name
*Pediculus*	Gissler, 1751	synonym

Species group names

*Salmincola edwardsi*	(Olsson, 1869)	objective synonym; alternate representation

Literature

additional source	Shedko, M.B., S.V. Shedko & S.A. Vinogradov. (2005). Fauna presnovodnyh parazitičeskih kopepod semejstva Lernaeopodidae (Crustacea: Copepoda) ryb ostrova Sahalin. [Fauna of the freshwater parasitic copepods of the family Lernaeopodidae (Crustacea: Copepoda) of fishes from Sakhalin Island.]. In: Bogatov V.V., V.Y. Barkalov, A.S. Lelef, E.A. Makarchenko & S.Y. Storozhenko (Eds.) Rastitel′nyj i životnyj mir ostrova Sahalin (Materialy Meždunarodnogo sahalinskogo proekta). Tom 2. [Flora and fauna of Sakhalin Island (Materials of International Sakhalin Island Project). Part 2.] Dalnauka, Vladivostok, Russia. :52–63. [In Russian with English abstract].
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	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	Allison, L.N. & W.C. Latta. (1969). Effects of gill lice (Salmincola edwardsii) on brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in lakes. Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Research and Development Report, Fisheries research report: 1761. 189:1-32.
additional source	Fasten, N. (1916). The eye of the parasitic copepod, Salmincola edwardsii Olsson (Lernaeopoda edwardsii Olsson). Biological Bulletin, Woods Hole 31:407-418, figs., pls. 1-3. (xii-1916)
additional source	Hasegawa, R., C.G. Ayer, Y. Umatani, K. Miura, M. Ukumura, H. Katahira & I. Koizumi. (2022). Potential negative effects and heterogeneous distribution of a parasitic copepod Salmincola edwardsii (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae) on Southern Asian Dolly Varden Salvelinus curilus in Hokkaido, Japan. Parasitology International. 87:1-9. 102529. Apr 2022.
additional source	Nagasawa, K. (2020). Salmincola edwardsii (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae) Parasitic on Southern Asian Dolly Varden, Salvelinus malma krascheninnikova, from Hokkaido Island, Japan, with the Southernmost Distribution Record of the Copepod in Asia. Species Diversity. 25(2):197-203.
additional source	Fasten, N. (1921). Another male copepod of the genus Salmincola from the gills of the Chinook salmon. Biological Bulletin, Woods Hole 41:121-124, pl. 1. (ix-1921)
additional source	Fryer, G. (1981). The copepod Salmincola edwardsii as a parasite of Salvelinus alpinus in Britain, and a consideration of the so-called relict fauna of Ennerdale Water. Journal of Zoology, London 193(2):253-268, figs. 1-14, tab. 1. (2-ii-1981)
additional source	Sokolov, S.G., M.B. Shedko, E.N. Protasov & E.V. Frolov. (2012). Parazity ryb vnutriennyh vodoemov ostrova Sahalin. [Parasites of the inland water fishes of Sakhalin Island.]. In: Bogatov V.V., V.Y. Barkalov, A.S. Lelef, E.A. Makarchenko, S.Y. Storozhenko (Eds.) Rastitel′nyj i životnyj mir ostrovov severo-zapadnoj časti Tihogo okeana (Materialy Meždunarodnogo kurilskogo i Meždunarodnogo sahalinskogo proektov). [Flora and fauna of North-West Pacific islands (Materials of International Kuril Island and International Sakhalin Island Projects).] Dalnauka, Vladivostok. [. :179– 216. In Russian with English abstract.
additional source	Conley, D.C. & M.A. Curtis. (1994). Larval development of the parasitic copepod Salmincola edwardsii on brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis). Canadian Journal of Zoology. 72(1):154-159.
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. Salmincola edwardsii (Olsson, 1869). 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:359918

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Salmincola edwardsii (Olsson, 1869). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/b8394e29-8c8b-4f21-857e-612fb331885c