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

Caligus scribae Essafi, Cabral & Raibaut, 1984

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Caligus*	Müller O.F., 1785	accepted genus name
*Caligopsis*	Markevich, 1940	junior homonym
*Scienophilus*	Beneden, 1852	orthographic variant
*Markevichus*	Özdikmen, 2008	synonym
*Pseudocaligus*	Scott A., 1901	synonym
*Sciaenophilus*	Beneden, 1852	synonym

Literature

original description	Essafi, K., P. Cabral & A. Raibaut. (1984). Copépodes parasites de poissons des îles Kerkennah (Tunisie méridionale). Archives de l'Institut Pasteur de Tunis 61(4):475-523, figs. 1-95. (xii-1984, English summary)
redescription	Özak, A. A. (2020). Sea lice (Copepoda: Caligidae) of Turkey, with the discovery of Caligus quadratus Shiino, 1954 in the Mediterranean Sea and the re-description of a rare caligid copepod, Caligus scribae Essafi, Cabral & Raibaut, 1984. Systematic Parasitology. 97(6): 779-808.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Caligus scribae Essafi, Cabral & Raibaut, 1984. 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:349741