Species Caligus oviceps Shiino, 1952

Museums

Regional Maps

• Caligus oviceps Shiino, S.M. 1952. Copepods parasitic on Japanese fishes. 1. On the species of Caligus and Lepeophtheirus. Report of the Faculty of Fisheries, Prefectural University of Mie 1: 79-113.
• Caligus truncatogenitalis Roubal, F.R. 1981. The taxonomy and site specificity of the Metazoan parasites on the Black Bream, Acanthopagrus australis (Günther), in northern New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 84: 1-100 [28].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P 29956 ♀ (found on body surface of Acanthopagrus australis (uncertain); lat-long not stated by Roubal), Coffs Harbour region.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Kyphosus cinerascens (Forsskål, 1775) Blue Sea Chub; Meuschenia trachylepis (Günther, 1870) Yellowfin Leatherjacket), marine.

General References

Boxshall, G. 2018. The sea lice (Copepoda: Caligidae) of Moreton Bay (Queensland, Australia), with descriptions of thirteen new species. Zootaxa 4398(1): 1-172 [96, Fig. 42]

History of changes