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

Nesippus orientalis Heller, 1865

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Nesippus*	Heller, 1865	accepted genus name
*Nessipus*	Heller, 1865	orthographic variant

Species group names

*Nessipus orientalis*	Heller, 1865	orthographic variant

Literature

original description	Heller, C. (1865). Crustaceen. [Crustacea]. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erdre, in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair, Zoologischer Theil, Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien, Band. 2 (Abtheilung 3): 1–280, pls. 1–25.
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	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	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	Nuñes-Ruivo, L. (1956). Copépodes parasitas de peixes dos mares de Angola. [Copepods parasitic on fish from the seas of Angola.]. Anais da Junta de Investigaçoes do Ultramar, Estudos de Biologia, Lisboa. 9(2):7-45, pls. 1-7. (For 1954. Original + partial English translation.).
additional source	Dippenaar, S.M. & B.P. Jordaan. (2006). Nesippus orientalis Heller, 1868 (Pandaridae: Siphonostomatoida): descriptions of the adult, young and immature females, a first description of the male and aspects of their functional morphology. Systematic Parasitology 65:27-41.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Nesippus orientalis Heller, 1865. 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:353769