Species Caligus furcisetifer Redkar, Rangnekar & Murti, 1949

Museums

Regional Maps

• Caligus furcisetifer Redkar, M.V., Rangnekar, P.G. & Murti, N.N. 1949. Four new species of parasitic copepods from the marine fishes of Bombay. Journal of the University of Bombay 18: 36-50.
• Caligus lepeophtheiropsis Pillai, N.K. 1968. Additions to the copepod parasites of South Indian fishes. , Cambridge 58:9-36, figs. 1-12. (ii-1968). Parasitology 58(1): 9-36.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Exmouth Gulf to Fitzroy River WA, Leichhardt River (Gulf of Carpentaria) and Moreton Bay QLD

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Glaucostegus typus Anonymous [Bennett], 1830 Common shovelnose ray; Pristis microdon Latham, 1794 [PRISTIDAE] Freshwater Sawfish, Largetooth Sawfish; Pristis zijsron [PRISTIDAE] Green Sawfish), marine.

Associated Fauna References

Ingelbrecht, J., Lear, K.O., Martin, S.B., Lymbery, A.J., Norman, B.M., Boxshall, G.A. & Morgan D.L. 2024. Ectoparasites of the critically endangered green sawfish Pristis zijsron and sympatric elasmobranchs in Western Australia. Parasitology International 101(102900): 1-12 [4] (Pristis zijsron)

Morgan, D.L., Tang, D. & Peverell, S.C. 2010. Critically endangered Pristis microdon (Elasmobranchii), as a host for the Indian parasitic copepod, Caligus furcisetifer Redkar, Rangnekar et Murti, 1949 (Siphonostomatoida): New records from northern Australia. Acta Parasitologica 55(4): 419-423 [419] (Pristis microdon)

 

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 [66, Fig. 29]

Ingelbrecht, J., Lear, K.O., Martin, S.B., Lymbery, A.J., Norman, B.M., Boxshall, G.A. & Morgan D.L. 2024. Ectoparasites of the critically endangered green sawfish Pristis zijsron and sympatric elasmobranchs in Western Australia. Parasitology International 101(102900): 1-12

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Mar-2025	CRUSTACEA Brünnich, 1772	13-Mar-2025	MODIFIED	Dr Gary Poore
07-Mar-2024	CALIGIDAE Burmeister, 1835	09-Mar-2025	MODIFIED
26-Jun-2023	COPEPODA H. Milne Edwards, 1840	13-Mar-2025	MODIFIED
23-Apr-2018	CALIGIDAE Burmeister, 1835	13-Mar-2025	MODIFIED
		30-Apr-2012	ADDED