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

Anchistrotos laqueus Leigh-Sharpe, 1935

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Anchistrotos*	Brian, 1906	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Taeniacanthus laqueus*	(Leigh-Sharpe, 1935)	synonym

Literature

original description	Leigh-Sharpe, W.H. (1935). Anchistrotos laqueus n. sp., a parasitic copepod of Serranus cabrilla. Parasitology, Cambridge 27:266-269, figs. 1-3. (29-vi-1935)
additional source	Venmathi Maran, B.A., S.Y. Moon & T.K. Adday. (2014). A new species of Anchistrotos (Copepoda: Taeniacanthidae) from hilsa shad, Tenualosa ilisha (Actinopterygii: Clupeidae), off Iraq. Folia Parasitologica, 61(5):479-484
additional source	Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. The Ray Society, London. 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203.
redescription	Dojiri, M. & R.F. Cressey. (1987). Revision of the Taeniacanthidae (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida) parasitic on fishes and sea urchins. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 447:i-iv, 1-250, figs. 1-166.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Anchistrotos laqueus Leigh-Sharpe, 1935. 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:364629