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

Lernaeenicus sprattae (Sowerby, 1806)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lernaeenicus*	Le Sueur, 1824	accepted genus name
*Lernaeonema*	Milne Edwards H., 1840	synonym

Species group names

*Lernaea spratta*	Sowerby, 1806	synonym

Literature

original description	Sowerby, J. (1805). The British miscellany; or, Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects : many not before ascertained to be inhabitants of the British Isles: and chiefly in the possession of the author, James Sowerby. R. Taylor & Co., London, No.2: 13-21, pls.5-8.
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	Richiardi, S. (1880). La Clupea sprattus ed il Lernaeenicus sprattae. [The Clupea sprattus and the Lernaeenicus sprattae.]. Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali, Processi Verbali e Memorie, Serie B. 2:101-102.
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	Baudouin, M. (1914). Deux exemples d'atavisme chez le Copépode du spratt et de la sardine (Lernaeenicus sprattae Sow). [Two examples of atavism in the copepod of spratt and sardine (Lernaeenicus sprattae Sow).]. Comptes Rendus de l'Association Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences, Paris. 42:366-371.
additional source	Baudouin, M. (1911). Découverte d'un type de transition entre Lernaeenicus sardinae M. Baudouin, et Lernaeenicus sprattae Sowerby sur la même sardine (Clupea pilchardus Wal.): L. Sardinae, varieté moniliformis. [Discovery of a type of transition between Lernaeenicus sardinae M. Baudouin, and Lernaeenicus sprattae Sowerby on the same sardine (Clupea pilchardus Wal.): L. Sardinae, moniliformis variety.]. Comptes Rendus de l'Association Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences, Paris. 39(2):163-167. (for 1910).
additional source	Schram, T.A. (1979). The life history of the eye-maggot of the sprat, Lernaeenicus sprattae (Sowerby) (Copepoda, Lernaeoceridae). Sarsia, Bergen. 64(4):279-316, figs. 1-31, tabs. 1-12. (21-xii-1979).
additional source	Baudouin, M. (1904). Le Lernaeenicus sprattae, parasite de la sardine en Vendee. [Lernaeenicus sprattae, parasite of sardines in the Vendee.]. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris. 139(11):998-1000.
additional source	Richiardi, S. (1880). La Clupea sprattus ed il Lernaeenicus sprattae. Zoologischer Anzeiger 3(72):642. (27-xii-1880)
additional source	Scott, A. (1907). Faunistic notes; Notes on food of young fishes. Proceedings and Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society. 21:191-198, pls. 1-5.
additional source	Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. The Ray Society, London. 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203.
additional source	Schuurmans Stekhoven, J.H. Jr. (1936). Copepoda Parasitica from the Belgian coast. II. (Included some habitats in the North-Sea). Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. 74:1-20, pls. 1-5.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Lernaeenicus sprattae (Sowerby, 1806). 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:135991