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 brevicaudatus Scott A., 1901

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	Scott, A. (1901). Some additions to the fauna of Liverpool Bay, collected May 1st 1900, to April 30th 1901. Proceedings and Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society 15:342-353, pls. 1-2.
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	Choi, S.D., S.Y. Hong & J.M. Lee. (1995). Two species of Caligus (Siphonostomatoida, Copepoda) parasitic on marine cultured fishes from Kamak Bay in Korea. Bulletin of the National Fisheries Research and Development Agency 49:157-166.
additional source	Özak, A.A., I. Demirkale, G.A. Boxshall & M. Etyemez. (2013). Parasitic copepods of the common sole, Solea solea (L.), from the Eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Systematic Parasitology. 86(2): 173-185.
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	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. The Ray Society, London. 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203.
redescription	Demirkale, I., A.A. Özak & G.A. Boxshall. (2015). The discovery of male Caligus brevicaudatus Scott, 1901(Copepoda: Caligidae) parasitic on tub gurnard, Chelidonichthys lucerna (Linnaeus) from the eastern Mediterranean. Folia Parasitologica. 62: 054.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Caligus brevicaudatus Scott A., 1901. 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:135746