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

Echthrogaleus coleoptratus (Guérin-Méneville, 1837)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Echthrogaleus*	Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Dinematura coleoptrata*	Guérin-Méneville, 1837	synonym

Literature

original description	Guérin-Méneville, F.E. (1829-1843). Iconographie du régne animal de G. Cuvier. [Representation d'apres nature de l'une des especes les plus remarquables et souvent non encore figurees, de chaque genre d'animaux.Iconography of the animal kingdom by G. Cuvier.]. Planches des Animaux invertébrés. Zoophytes. 2. Crustacées. A. Londres publisher. (Publication began in 1829). :1-48, [ Copepods pl. 35, This plate was published in 1837.].
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	Carli, A. & C.L. Bruzzone. (1968). Studio su Echthrogaleus coleoptratus (Guérin 1840) parassita di Prionace glauca (Linneo) rinvenuto nel Mare Ligure. [Study on Echthrogaleus coleoptratus (Guérin 1840) parasite of Prionace glauca (Linnaeus) found in the Ligurian Sea.]. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 'Giacomo Doria', Genova. 77:560-573, figs. 1-2, pls. 1-2, tab. 1.
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.
additional source	Wilson, C.B. (1932). The copepods of the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 158:1-635, figs. 1-316, pls. 1-41.
additional source	Pillai, N.K. (1985). Copepod Parasites of Marine Fishes. In: The Fauna of India. Zoological Society of India, Calcutta. 900pp., figs. 1-279.
additional source	Kumar, K.A. (1990). Studies on copepod parasites on elasmobranchs of Kerala Coast. Ph.D. Thesis, The Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India. 286 pp.
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	Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.).
additional source	Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. The Ray Society, London. 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203.
additional source	Barnard, K.H. (1955). South African parasitic Copepoda. Annals of the South African Museum. 41(5):223-312, figs. 1-33. (ii-1955).
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Heegaard, P.E. (1962). Parasitic Copepoda from Australian waters. Records of the Australian Museum 25(9):149-234, figs. 1-250. (28-v-1962)
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	Wilson, C.B. (1907). North American parasitic copepods belonging to the family Caligidae. Parts 3 and 4.- A revision of the Pandarinae and the Cecropinae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 33(1573):323-490, pls. 17-43. (31-xii-1907).
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	Kabata, Z. (1988). Schistobrachia pilgrimi sp. nov. (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae), parasitic on the gills of Harriotta raleighana Goode & Bean, 1895 (Pisces: Holocephali). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 15(4):551-555.
additional source	Hewitt, G.C. (1967). Some New Zealand parasitic Copepoda of the family Pandaridae. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 1(2):180-264, figs. 1-159. (vi-1967)
additional source	Guérin-Méneville, F.E. (1829-1843). Iconographie du régne animal de G. Cuvier. [Representation d'apres nature de l'une des especes les plus remarquables et souvent non encore figurees, de chaque genre d'animaux.Iconography of the animal kingdom by G. Cuvier.]. Planches des Animaux invertébrés. Zoophytes. 2. Crustacées. A. Londres publisher. (Publication began in 1829). :1-48, [ Copepods pl. 35, This plate was published in 1837.].
additional source	Steenstrup, J.J.S. & C.F. Lütken. (1861). Bidrag til kundskab om det aabne havs snyltekrebs og lernæer samt om nogle andre nye eller hidtil kun ufuldstændigt kjendte parasitiske Copepoder. [Contribution to knowledge about the open sea parasitic crabs and mud crabs and about some other new or hitherto only incompletely known parasitic Copepods.]. Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, Naturhistorisk og Mathematisk Afdeling, Kjöbenhavn. (5)5: 343-432, pls. 1-15.
redescription	Shiino, S.M. (1954). Copepods parasitic on Japanese fishes. 5. Five species of the family Pandaridae. Report of the Faculty of Fisheries, Prefectural University of Mie 1(3):291-332, figs. 1-19. (30-vii-1954)
redescription	Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. The Ray Society, London. 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203.
redescription	Ho, J.S., W.C. Liu & C.L. Lin. (2013). Two species of Echthrogaleus (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Pandaridae) parasitic on five species of sharks off the east coast of Taiwan. Journal of the Fisheries Society of Taiwan. 39(4): 247-255 (for 2012).

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Echthrogaleus coleoptratus (Guérin-Méneville, 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:135976