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Caligus dakari Beneden, 1892

Caligus dakari
Caligus dakari

349604 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:349604)

accepted
Species
Caligus mauritanicus Brian, 1924 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Beneden, P.J. Van. (1892). Quelques nouveaux Caligidés de la côte d'Afrique et de l'archipel des Açores. [Some new Caligidae from the coast of Africa and the Azores archipelago.]. <em>Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique.</em> (3)24:241-262, pls. 1-4. [details] OpenAccess publication
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Caligus dakari Beneden, 1892. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=349604 on 2026-08-28
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Caligus dakari Beneden, 1892. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=349604 on 2026-08-28
Date
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2008-07-15 14:41:49Z
created
Walter, T. Chad
2015-07-13 12:43:58Z
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Boxshall, Geoff
2024-05-09 13:39:25Z
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Walter, T. Chad

original description Beneden, P.J. Van. (1892). Quelques nouveaux Caligidés de la côte d'Afrique et de l'archipel des Açores. [Some new Caligidae from the coast of Africa and the Azores archipelago.]. <em>Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique.</em> (3)24:241-262, pls. 1-4. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Caligus mauritanicus Brian, 1924) Brian, A. (1924). Copepoda. Copepodes commensaux et parasites des cotes Mauritaniennes. [Copepoda. Commensal and parasitic copepods of the Mauritanian coasts.]. <em>In: Parasitologica Mauritanica. Matériaux pour la faune parasitologique en Mauritanie.</em> 1(1):1-66, figs. 1-67, also Bulletin du Comitae d'etudes Historiques et Scientifiques de l'Afrique Occidentale Francoaise 9:363-427, figs. 1-69. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

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) [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Kumar, K.A. (1990). Studies on copepod parasites on elasmobranchs of Kerala Coast. <em>Ph.D. Thesis, The Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India.</em> 286 pp.
note: Kumar reported incorrectly reported taxa as Caligus dakari [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Nunkoo, M.A.I. (2015). A survey of the metazoan parasite assemblage of snoek, Thyrsites atun (Euphrasen, 1791), off South Africa with an assessment of host-parasite relationships and potential biological tags. <em>M.Sc. Thesis, University of Cape Town, South Africa.</em> 170 pp., available online at https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.3392.3683 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Nunkoo, M.A.I., C.C. Reed & S.E. Kerwath. (2016). Community ecology of the metazoan parasites of snoek Thyrsites atun (Euphrasen, 1791) (Perciformes: Gempylidae) off South Africa. <em>African Journal of Marine Science.</em> 38(3):363-371., available online at https://doi.org/10.2989/1814232x.2016.1216892 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Öktener, A. (2009). Caligus mauritanicus Brian, 1924 a parasite of common cultured Dentex dentex L. from Aegean Sea and parasites of cultured fishes of  Turkey. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 41(5):417-420. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

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. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Pillai, N.K. (1985). Copepod Parasites of Marine Fishes. <em>In: The Fauna of India. Zoological Society of India, Calcutta.</em> 900pp., figs. 1-279.
page(s): 279 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Weston, M.J. (2018). Investigating trophic interactions between parasites and their marine fish hosts using stable isotope analysis. <em>Master's Thesis, Faculty of Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.</em> xxxv + 139 pp., available online at http:// http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28153 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

redescription Boxshall, G.A. & H.H. El-Rashidy. (2009). A review of the Caligus productus species group, with the description of a new species, new synonymies and supplementary descriptions. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2271: 1-26., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2271.1.1 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Caligus mauritanicus Brian, 1924)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Caligus dakari) 
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) 
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Caligus mauritanicus Brian, 1924)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Caligus mauritanicus Brian, 1924)
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