Caligus triangularis Shiino, 1954

Lee, Jimin, Chang, Cheon Young & Kim, Il-Hoi, 2022, Symbiotic copepods (Cyclopoida and Siphonostomatoida) collected by light trap from Korea, ZooKeys 1115, pp. 1-71 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1115.83266

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Caligus triangularis Shiino, 1954
status

 

Caligus triangularis Shiino, 1954 View in CoL

Material examined.

Two ♀♀, 1 ♂, Site 10, 13 Oct. 2015.

Remarks.

The genital complex of the female of this caligid is characteristically triangular. The only known host of this copepod was Halichoeres poecilopterus (Richardson, 1846) which has been treated as a junior synonym of Parajulis poecilepterus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Copepoda

Order

Siphonostomatoida

Family

Caligidae

Genus

Caligus