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

Lernaeolophus sultanus (Milne Edwards, 1840)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lernaeolophus*	Heller, 1865	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Pennella sultana*	Milne-Edwards, 1840	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ウオノハブラシ

Literature

original description	Milne Edwards, H. (1840). Ordre des Copépodes. [Order Copepoda]. Histoire naturelle des Crustaces, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. [In: Natural history of Crustacea, including the anatomy, physiology and classification of these animals]]. 3: 411-529.
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	Pillai, N.K. (1967). Copepods parasitic on Indian marine fishes. A review. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Crustacea. Symposium Series, Marine Biological Association of India (2)5:1556-1680, figs. 1-266.
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	Natarajan, P. & N. Balakrishnan Nair. (1977). On the occurrence of Lernaeolophus sultanus (Nordmann) on Priacanthus hamrur (Forskal). Current Science, Bangalore 46(3):93-94, fig. 1. (5-Ii-1977)
additional source	Wilson, C.B. (1917). North American parasitic copepods belonging to the Lernaeidae with a revision of the entire family. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 53(2194):1-150, pls. 1-21. (13-vi-1917).
additional source	Poquet, M. (1979). Aportaciones al estudio morfologico de algunas especies de copepodos parasitos de peces del litoral mediterraneo. [Contributions to the morphological study of some species of copepods parasitic on fish from the Mediterranean coast.]. Miscelánea Zoologica, Instituto Municipal de Ciencias Naturales, Barcelona. 5:161-171, figs. 1-12. (English summary).
additional source	Kabata, Z. (1968). The appendages of Lernaeolophus sultanus (H. Milne-Edwards, 1840) (Lernaeopodidae). Crustaceana, Supplement, Leiden 1:103-111, figs. 1-2. (bound and filed under Crustaceana.)
additional source	Suárez-Morales, E. & J.S. Ho. (1994). Lernaeolophus sultanus (Nordmann, 1864) (Copepoda), a parasite of Lutjanus campechanus (Poey) in the Gulf of Mexico. Bulletin of Marine Science 55(1):246-248.
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	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	Chirivella Martorell, J. (2005). Parasitismo branquial de peces espáridos (Pisces: Sparidae) del mar Mediterráneo. [Gill parasitism of sparid fishes (Pisces: Sparidae) from the Mediterranean Sea.]. PhD Thesis, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain. 271 pp. [In Spanish].
additional source	Raibaut, A. & M.H. Ktari. (1971). Lernaeolophus sultanus (Nordmann, 1839), un Copépode parasite de Pagellus erythrinus (L.) de golfe de Tunis. [Lernaeolophus sultanus (Nordmann, 1839), a Copepod parasitic on Pagellus erythrinus (L.) from the Gulf of Tunis.]. Bulletin de l'Institut National Scientifique et Technique d'Océanographie et de Pêche, Salammbô, Nouvelle Série. 2(1):59-70, figs. 1-4, pls. 1-2.
additional source	Öktener, A. & J.P. Trilles. (2004). Two lernaepodids and one pennellid copepod determined on three marine fishes collected in Turkey. Journal of the Black Sea / Mediterranean Environment 10(2):143-153.
additional source	Kirtisinghe, P. (1964). A review of the parasitic copepods of fish recorded from Ceylon, with descriptions of additional forms. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Station, Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 17(1):45-132, figs. 1-191. (vi-1964)
additional source	Nashad, M., S.P. Varghese, A.A. Hatha, B.K.K. Mohamed, S. Rajendra, C. Sivaperuman & L. Ramalingam. (2020). Sphyraena barracuda (Edwards, 1771), a new host for Lernaeolophus sultanus (Milne Edwards, 1840) (Siphonostomatoida; Pennellidae) from Andaman and Nicobar waters, India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India. 62(2):117-120. Jul 2020.
additional source	Bashirullah, A.K. (1975). Records of Lernaeolophus sp. (Copepoda) in the fish Lutjanus griseus(Linn.) with multiple epizoic organisms on the copepod. Boletín del Instituto Oceanográfico de Venezuela, Universidad de Oriente 14(2):247-250, figs. 1-2.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Lernaeolophus sultanus (Milne Edwards, 1840). 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:135996