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

Ergasilus sieboldi von Nordmann, 1832

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ergasilus*	von Nordmann, 1832	accepted genus name
*Ergasiloides*	Sars G.O., 1909	synonym

Species group names

*Ergasilus sieboldi sieboldi*	von Nordmann, 1832	synonym; nom. superfl.

Literature

original description	von Nordmann, A. (1832). Mikrographische Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der wirbellosen Thiere. [Micrographic contributions to the natural history of invertebrates.]. Zweites Heft. Mit zehn Kupfertafeln, G. Reimer, Berlin. XVIII:1-150, plates I-X.
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	Abdel-Radi, S., M.M. Rashad, G.E. Ali, A.E. Eissa, M. Abdelsalam & M. Abou-Okada. (2022). Molecular characterization and phylogenetic analysis of parasitic Copepoda; Ergasilus sieboldi isolated from cultured gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) in Egypt, associated with analysis of oxidative stress biomarkers. Journal of Parasitic Diseases. 46(4):1080-1089. Dec 2022.
additional source	Abdelhalim, A.I., J.W. Lewis & G.A. Boxshall. (1991). The life-cycle of Ergasilus sieboldi Nordmann (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida), parasitic on British freshwater fish. Journal of Natural History. 25(3): 559-582.
additional source	D'Yachenko, G.V. [Djachenko]. (1969). Novii vid presnovodnogo paraziticheskogo rachka sem. Ergasilidae. [A new species of freshwater parasitic copepods Ergasilidae.]. Parazitologiya. 3(6):554-558, figs. 1-3, tab. 1. (21-xi-1969, Russian with English summary).
additional source	Kuang, P.R. & J.H. Qian. (1991). Parasitic Crustacea of Freshwater Fishes. Economic Fauna of China. Editorial Committee of Fauna Sinica, Academia Sinica, Science Press, Beijing 203pp. (In Chinese.)
additional source	Kozikowska, Z. (1975). Ergasilus sieboldi Nordm., przystosowanie pasozyta do morfologii i biologii zywicieli oraz uzupelnienie danych o wystepowaniu innych gatunków pazozytniczyck skorupiaków na terenie Mazur i Warmii. [Ergasilus sieboldi Norm., adaptation of the parasite to the morphology and biology of the hosts and supplementation of data on the occurrence of other species of parasitic crustaceans in the Mazury and Warmia regions.]. Acta Universitatis Wratislav, Prace Zoologie. 7:3-40, tabs. 1-5, diagrams 1-20.
additional source	Markevich, A.P. (1934). Skorupiaki pasorzytnicze ryb Ukrainy. Die Schmarotzerkrebse der Fische der Ukraine. [Parasitic crustaceans of fish of Ukraine.]. Annales du Musée de Zoologie Polonaise. 10(12):223-249, pls. 44-45. (9-v-1934).
additional source	Modenutti, B.E. & E.G. Balseiro. (1989). Presencia de Ergasilus sieboldi en el plancton de un Lago Andino, Argentino. Anales del Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaíso 20:29-30.
additional source	Gusev, A.V. (1987). Class Crustacea Lamarck, 1801. In: Bauer, O.N. (ed.). Key to the Parasites of Freshwater Fishes of the USSR. Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR, Zoologicheskii Instituta SSSR. Nauka, Leningrad 3(149):378-432.
additional source	Marques, E. (1978). Copépodes e Branquiuros das águas do Lago Dilolo (Angola). [Copepods and Branchiura from the waters of Lake Dilolo (Angola).]. Garcia de Orta, Série de Zoologia, Lisbon. 7(1-2):1-6, figs. 1-7.
additional source	Neuhaus, E. (1932). XXVI. Zur Systematik von Ergasilus sieboldi Nordm. [XXVI. On the systematics of Ergasilus sieboldi Nordm.]. Zeitschrift für Fischerei und deren Hilfswissenschaften. 30:691-698.
additional source	Neuhaus, E. (1929). Untersuchungen über die Lebensweise von Ergasilus sieboldi Nordmann. [Investigations into the lifestyle of Ergasilus sieboldi Nordmann.]. Inaugural Dissertation sur Erlangung der Doktorwürde, Aus der Preussischen Landesanstalt für Fischerei in Berlin-Friedrichshagen. 15:341-397.
additional source	Monod, T. & V. Vladykov. (1931). Sur quelques Copépodes parasites provenant de la Russie Sous-Carpathique (Tchécoslovaquie). [On some parasitic copepods from Sub-Carpathian Russia (Czechoslovakia).]. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 9(3):202-224, figs. 1-11. (v-1931).
additional source	Kozicka, J. (1958). Diseases of fishes of Druzno Lake. (Parasitofauna of the biocoenosis of Druzno Lake - part VIII). Acta Parasitologica Polonica. 6(20):393-432. Jun 1958.
additional source	Lahav, M. & S. Sarig. (1968). Ergasilus sieboldi Nordmann infestation of grey mullet in Israel's fish ponds. Bulletin for Fish Culture in Israel - Bamidgeh 19:69-80.
additional source	Krøyer, H. (1863-1864). Bidrag til Kundskab om Snyltekrebsene. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift Ser. III. 2(1/2): 75-320, pls. 1-9 [1863]; 2(3): 321-426, pls. 10-18 [1864].
additional source	Wita, I. (1974). Three new species of Paradistigma gen. n. (Euglenoidina parasitica) parasitizing Ergasilus sieboldi Nordm. (Copepoda) from Esox lucius L. of Mazurian Lakes in Poland. Acta Parasitologica Polonica 22(35):365-391, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-2. (15-ix-1974)
additional source	Wissmath, P. (1974). Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung und zum jahreszeitlichen Zyklus des Kiemenkrebses Ergasilus sieboldii v. Nordmann an den Renken des Ammersees. [Studies on the development and seasonal cycle of the gill-crustacean Ergasilus sieboldii v. Nordmann in the whitefish of Lake Ammersee.] Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Munich, Munich, Germany. 96 pp. [In German.]
additional source	Markevich, A.P. (1937). Copepoda parasitica prisnikh vod SRSR. Copepoda parasitica der Binnengewässer der USSR. [Copepods parasitic on freshwater fishes of the USSR.]. Institut Zoologii i Biologii, Akademiya Nauk Ukrainii SSR, Kiev. :1-223, figs. 1-10, pls. 1-27.
additional source	Halisch, W. (1935). Der grosse und der kleine Ergasilus der Schleie (Ergasilus sieboldi und Ergasilus minor). [The large and small Ergasilus of the tench (Ergasilus sieboldi and Ergasilus minor).]. Fischereizeitung, Neudamm. 38(38):596-597, figs. 1-2. (22-ix-1935).
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	Abdybekova, A.M., A.A. Abdibayeva, N.N. Popov, A.A. Zhaksylykova, B.I. Barbol, B.Z. Bozhbanov & P.R. Torgerson. (2020). Helminth parasites of fish of the Kazakhstan sector of the Caspian Sea and associated drainage basin. Helminthologia. 57(3): 241-251.
additional source	Schaperclaus, W. (1934). Ursachen für verschiedenartiges Auftreten von Schleienerkrankung durch Ergasilus sieboldi. [Causes for different occurrences of tench disease caused by Ergasilus sieboldi. Fischereizeitung, Neudamm. 37(10):133-135. (11-iii-1934).
additional source	Kulmatycki, W. (1931). Masowy pojaw Ergasilus sieboldi Nordm. na linie. [Mass occurrence of Ergasilus sieboldi Nordm. on the line.]. Przeglad Rybacki, Warsaw. 4:21-22. (450-451).
additional source	Kim, Y.G. & S.W. Park. (1996). The first case report on Ergasilus sieboldi Nordmann, 1832 (Copepoda, Ergasilidae) infection in an aquacultured Shiures asotus in Korea. Journal of Fish Pathology. 9(1):11-13.
additional source	Riehl, R. (1975). Fischparasiten: Ergasilus sieboldi Nordmann, 1832. [Fish parasite: Ergasilus sieboldi Nordmann, 1832.]. Aquarium Aquaterra. 75:408-411, figs. 1-3. (ix-1975).
additional source	Einszporn, T. (1965). Nutrition of Ergasilus sieboldi Nordmann. II. The uptake of food and the food material. Acta Parasitologica Polonica 13(37):373-382, pls. 1-7. (30-ix-1965)
additional source	Einszporn, T. (1965). Nutrition of Ergasilus sieboldi Nordmann. I. Histological structure of the alimentary canal. Acta Parasitologica Polonica. 13(7):71-79, pls.I-X.
additional source	Wilson, C.B. (1911). North American parasitic copepods belonging to the family Ergasilidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 39(1788):263-400, pls. 41-60. (11-i-1911)
additional source	Freidenfelt, T. (1910). Morphologisch systematische Bemerkungen über Ergasilus sieboldii Nordm. nebst vorläufige Mittheilungen über die Lebensgeschichte des Tieres. [Morphological systematic remarks on Ergasilus sieboldii Nordm. together with preliminary information on the life history of the animal.]. Acta Universitatis Lundensis. Afd. 2, 6(3): 1-12, figs. 1-2.
additional source	Zmerzlaya, E.I. (1972). Ergasilus sieboldi Nordmann, 1832, ego razvitie, biologiya i epizootologicheskoe znachenie. [Ergasilus sieboldi Nordmann, 1832, its development, biology and epizootic significance.]. In: Bauer, O.N. & Y.A. Strelkov (eds.). Parazity i bolezni ryb v ozerakh severo-zapada RSFSR. Parasites and diseases of fish in the lakes of N.W. Russia., Izv. gosud. nauchno-issled. Inst. ozern. rechn. rybn. Khozyaist. 80:132-177, figs. 1-19, tabs. 1-18. (28-xi-1972, Russian with English summary).
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Einszporn, T. (1964). Ustalenie rodzaju pokaimu Ergasilus sieboldi Nordmann. [Observations on the kind of food taken up by Ergasilus sieboldi Nordmann.]. Wiadomosci Parazytologiczne. 10(4-5):527-529. (Polish with English summary.).
additional source	Geyer, F. (1939). Über Ergasilus sieboldi Nordm. (Crust. Copep.) im Balaton (Ungarn). [About Ergasilus sieboldi Nordm. (Crust. Copep.) in Lake Balaton (Hungary).]. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 126(5-6):140-148. (15-v-1939).
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Neuhaus, E. (1930). Fischsterben durch Ergasilus sieboldi Nordm. [Fish mortality caused by Ergasilus sieboldi Nordm.]. Fischereizeitung, Neudamm. 33(21): 269-270, fig. (25-V-1930).
additional source	Einszporn, T. (1964). Próba okreslenia sposobu pobierania pokarmu Ergasilus sieboldi Nordmann przy pomocy Izotopu Fe59. [An attempt to determine the nutrition system in Ergasilus sieboldi Nordmann by means of Fe 59 isotope.]. Wiadomosci Parazytologiczne. 10(4-5):530-532. (Polish with English summary.).
additional source	Hanek, J. & A. Dulmaa. (1970). Parasitic copepods of some fish species from Mongolia. Folia Parasitologica, Ceske Bujedovice. 17(1):77-80, fig. 1.
additional source	Rumyantsev E.A., E.P. Ieshko & B.S. Shulman. (1999). Parasite fauna formation in the European grayling Thymallus thymallus. Parazitologiya. 33(2): 136-143.
additional source	Krøyer, H. (1837). Om Snyltekrebsene, isaer med Hensyn til den danske Fauna. III. Formbeskrivelser (Fortsaettelse).[Concerning parasitic Crustacea with special reference to the Danish fauna. ]. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift Ser. I. 1(3): 252-302, pl. 3.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Ergasilus sieboldi von Nordmann, 1832. 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:128828

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Ergasilus sieboldi von Nordmann, 1832. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/547d8c8a-75fa-4aaa-9610-188cfc688026