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Perissopus dentatus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861

135983 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135983)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Arthropoda
  4. Crustacea
  5. Multicrustacea
  6. Copepoda
  7. Neocopepoda
  8. Podoplea
  9. Siphonostomatoida
  10. Pandaridae
  11. Perissopus
  12. Perissopus dentatus
accepted
Species
Perissopus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861
Perissopus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861
Perissopus communis Rathbun, 1887 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Steenstrup, J.J.S. & C.F. Lütken. (1861). Bidrag til kundskab om det aabne havs snyltekrebs og lernćer samt om nogle andre nye eller hidtil kun ufuldstćndigt kjendte parasitiske Copepoder. [Contribution to knowledge about the open sea parasitic crabs and mud crabs and about some other new or hitherto only incompletely known parasitic Copepods.]. <em>Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, Naturhistorisk og Mathematisk Afdeling, Kjöbenhavn.</em> (5)5: 343-432, pls. 1-15., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39308528 [details] OpenAccess publication
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Perissopus dentatus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861. 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=135983 on 2026-06-27
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Perissopus dentatus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=135983 on 2026-06-27
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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Boxshall, Geoff
2010-09-08 15:48:26Z
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Walter, T. Chad

original description Steenstrup, J.J.S. & C.F. Lütken. (1861). Bidrag til kundskab om det aabne havs snyltekrebs og lernćer samt om nogle andre nye eller hidtil kun ufuldstćndigt kjendte parasitiske Copepoder. [Contribution to knowledge about the open sea parasitic crabs and mud crabs and about some other new or hitherto only incompletely known parasitic Copepods.]. <em>Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, Naturhistorisk og Mathematisk Afdeling, Kjöbenhavn.</em> (5)5: 343-432, pls. 1-15., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39308528 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Perissopus communis Rathbun, 1887) Rathbun, R. (1887). Descriptions of new species of parasitic copepods, belonging to the genera Trebius, Perissopus, and Lernanthropus. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 10:559-571, pls. 29-35. (6-viii-1897) [details] OpenAccess publication

context source (PeRMS) Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. [Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru.]. <em>Neotropical Helminthology.</em> 10(2):301-375., available online at https://doi.org/10.24039/rnh2016102751 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

basis of record Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 252-268 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Barnard, K.H. (1955). South African parasitic Copepoda. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 41(5):223-312, figs. 1-33. (ii-1955). [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Della Valle, A. (1881). Crostacei parassiti dei pesci del Mare Adriatico. [Crustaceans parasitic on fish in the Adriatic Sea.]. <em>Bollettino della Societŕ Adriatica di Scienze Naturali, Trieste.</em> 6(1):55-90. [for 1880]. [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [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. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Benmansour, B., F. Youssef, M. Ben Ali, B. Albogami & F. Boufahja. (2022). The survey of ectoparasites on two species of Triakids (Mustelus mustelus and M. punctulatus) sharks from Tunisian coasts. <em>Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences.</em> 29(5):3610-3616. May 2022., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2022.02.052 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Essafi, K. & A. Raibaut. (1977). Copépodes parasites des poissons de Tunisie (deuxičme série). [Copepod parasites of Tunisian fish (second series).]. <em>Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Tunisie.</em> 12:23-38. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Hewitt, G.C. (1967). Some New Zealand parasitic Copepoda of the family Pandaridae. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 1(2):180-264, figs. 1-159. (vi-1967), available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00288330.1967.9515202 [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 Pilgrim, R.L.C. (1985). Parasitic Copepoda from marine coastal fishes in the Kaikoura-Banks Peninsula Region, South Island, New Zealand. With a key for their identification. Mauri Ora 12:13-53, figs. 1-63. [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): 171 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

redescription Cressey, R.F. (1967). Revision of the family Pandaridae (Copepoda: Caligoida). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 121(3570):1-133, figs. 1-356. (16-ii-1967), available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.121-3570.1 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
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To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Perissopus communis Rathbun, 1887)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Perissopus dentatus) 
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) 
To PESI 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (17 records) (from synonym Perissopus communis Rathbun, 1887)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (75 records) 
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