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

Lernanthropus kroyeri Beneden, 1851

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lernanthropus*	de Blainville, 1822	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	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	Scott, A. (1907). Faunistic notes; Notes on food of young fishes. Proceedings and Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society. 21:191-198, pls. 1-5.
additional source	Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. The Ray Society, London. 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203.
additional source	Antonelli, L., Q.C. Yann & B. Marchand. (2012). Lernanthropus kroyeri (Van Beneden and Hesse 1851) parasitic Copepoda (Siphonostomatoidae, Lernanthropidae) of European cultured sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus 1758) from Corsica: ecological and morphological study. Parasitology Research 110(5):1959-1968.
additional source	Manera, M. & B.S. Dezfuli. (2003). Lernanthropus kroyeri infections in farmed sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax: pathological features. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 57(1-2):177-180.
additional source	Toksen, E., E. Nemli & U. Degirmenci. (2008). The morphology of Lernanthropus kroyeri van Beneden, 1851 (Copepoda: Lernanthropidae) parasitic on sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax L., 1758), from the Aegean Sea, Turkey. Turkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi. 32(4):386-389.
additional source	Coste, F., A. Raibaut & G. Bouix. (1978). Réproduction et sexualité des Copépodes parasites de poissons. III. Morphologie et anatomie microscopiques de l'appareil génital mâle de Lernanthropus kroyeri Van Beneden, 1851. [Reproduction and sexuality of copepods parasitic on fish. III. Microscopic morphology and anatomy of the male genital apparatus of Lernanthropus kroyeri Van Beneden, 1851.]. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 103(4):465-48l, figs. 1-2, pls. 1-5, tab.
additional source	Lattos, A., V, Makri, D.K. Papadopoulos, E. Gourzioti, C. Pagonis, I. Georgoulis, D. Karagiannis, J.A. Theodorou, B. Michaelidis, I.A. Giantsis & K. Feidantsis. (2024). Molecular characterization of Lernathropus kroyeri from intensive aquaculture and pathophysiology of infested sea bass. Fish & Shellfish Immunology. 149(3):1-14.
additional source	Della Valle, A. (1881). Crostacei parassiti dei pesci del Mare Adriatico. [Crustaceans parasitic on fish in the Adriatic Sea.]. Bollettino della Società Adriatica di Scienze Naturali, Trieste. 6(1):55-90. [for 1880].
additional source	Davey, J.T. (1980). Spatial distribution of the copepod parasite Lernanthropus kroyeri on the gills of bass, Dicentrarchus labrax (L.). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 60(4):106l-1067, figs. 1-3, tabs. 1-3. (xi-1980)
additional source	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	Pocquet, M. (1983). Characteristiques ultrastructurales del tegument de Lernanthropus kroyeri van Beneden (Crustacea, Copepoda). Butlleti de la Institucio Catalana d'Historie Natural, Zool. 49(5):49-56.
additional source	Hesse, E. (1878). Description des mâles, non encore connus, des Lernanthropes de Gisler et de Kroyer, ainsi que de la femelle d'une espèce nouvelle, dessinés et peints d'après des individues vivants (fin). Revue des Sciences Naturelles, Montpellier 7:1-21, pls. 1-2.
additional source	Poquet, M. (1984). Ultrastructura del tracto digestivo de copépodos parásitos de Pesces: Lernanthropus kroyerii van Beneden y Caligus minimus Otto. Ph.D. Thesis, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Barcelona. 255 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Lernanthropus kroyeri Beneden, 1851. 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:135887