Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Cyclopoida > Suborder Ergasilida > Family Philichthyidae

Sarcotaces Olsson, 1872

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Sarcotaces antimori Piasecki & Boxshall, 2024

Literature

original description	Olsson, P. (1872). Om Sarcotaces och Acrobothrium, två nya parasitslägten från fiskar. [On Sarcotaces and Acrobothrium, two new parasitic genera from fishes.]. Öfversigt af Konglige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm. 29(9):37-44, pl. 11.
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	Aitken, A. (1942). An undescribed stage of Sarcotaces. Nature, London 150(3797):180-181, figs. 1-2. (8-viii-1942).
additional source	Piasecki, W., D. Barcikowska, R. Panicz, P. Eljasik & P. Kochmański. (2022). First step towards understanding the specific identity of fish muscle parasites of the genus Sarcotaces (Copepoda: Philichthyidae)—New species and first molecular ID in the genus. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife. 18: 33–44.
additional source	Nagasawa, K., D. Uyeno & M. Toda. (2015). Sarcotaces sp. (Copepoda: Philichthyidae), a parasite of a blacktip grouper, Epinephelus fasciatus, from off the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan. Biogeography. 17:103-106.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Sarcotaces Olsson, 1872. 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:347968