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Caligus infestans

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Caligus infestans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Copepoda
Order: Siphonostomatoida
Family: Caligidae
Genus: Caligus
Species:
C. infestans
Binomial name
Caligus infestans
Heller, 1865

Caligus infestans is a species of sea louse in the family, Caligidae, first described by Camill Heller in 1865.[1][2]

In Australia it is found as an ecto-parasite (a parasite living on the outside of its host) of fishes at depths of 200 metres in the following IMCRA zones - Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), and the Northeast Shelf Transition - that is, in seas off the north east coast of Australia.[1]

A search of the Smithsonian Invertebrates Collection[3] reveals they have also been found off:

and Madagascar and Mozambique (all with the same host).

References

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  1. ^ a b "Species Caligus infestans Heller, 1865". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 2024-07-01.
  2. ^ Camill Heller (1865). "Caligus infestans". Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair (in German). Wikidata Q126943020.
  3. ^ "Search for Caligus infestans". Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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