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Thersitina gasterostei (Pagenstecher, 1861)

128832  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:128832)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Copepoda (Class)
  7. Neocopepoda (Infraclass)
  8. Podoplea (Superorder)
  9. Cyclopoida (Order)
  10. Ergasilida (Suborder)
  11. Ergasilidae (Family)
  12. Thersitina (Genus)
  13. Thersitina gasterostei (Species)
accepted
Species
Ergasilus biuncinatus Gadd, 1901 · unaccepted (synonym)
Limnoncaea diuncata Kokubo, 1914 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Thersites gasterostei Pagenstecher, 1861) Pagenstecher, H.A. (1861). Thersites gasterostei und Leptodora nicothoae. Eine neue Gattung parasitischer Crustaceen und eine neue Nematodenart. [Thersites gasterostei and Leptodora nicothoae. A new genus of parasitic crustaceans and a new nematode species.]. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 27(1):118-126, pl.6. [details] OpenAccess publication
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary; middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands)  
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary; middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands) [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Thersitina gasterostei (Pagenstecher, 1861). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=128832 on 2025-04-10
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Nomenclature

original description (of Ergasilus biuncinatus Gadd, 1901) Gadd, P. (1901). Nagra förut obeskrifna, parasitisk levande Copepoder. (Uber einige neue parasitische Copepoden).[On some new parasitic copepods]. Meddelanden af Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. 27: 98-100. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Limnoncaea diuncata Kokubo, 1914) Kokubo, S. (1914). A new genus and three new species of the family Oncaeidae. Zoological Magazine (Dobutsugaku Zasshi), Tokyo. 26(314): 533-541, 7pls. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Thersites gasterostei Pagenstecher, 1861) Pagenstecher, H.A. (1861). Thersites gasterostei und Leptodora nicothoae. Eine neue Gattung parasitischer Crustaceen und eine neue Nematodenart. [Thersites gasterostei and Leptodora nicothoae. A new genus of parasitic crustaceans and a new nematode species.]. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 27(1):118-126, pl.6. [details] OpenAccess publication

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

Other

additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Capart, A. (1944). Notes sur les Copépodes parasites. II. A propos de quatres Copépodes parasites d'eau douce, rares ou nouveaux pour la Belgique. [Notes on Parasitic Copepods. II. About four freshwater parasitic Copepods, rare or new to Belgium.]. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de la Belgique. 20(22):1-4, fig. 1. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Gurney, R. (1913). Some notes on the parasitic copepod Thersitina gasterostei, Pagenstecher. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)12:415-424, pls. 10-13. (xi-1913) [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Gurney, R. (1933). Some notes on the parasitic copepod Thersitina gasterostei Pagenstecher. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(12):415-424. [details] 

additional source Gusev, A.V. (1951). Parazitičeskie Copepoda s nekotoryh morskih ryb. [Parasitic Copepoda of some marine fishes.]. Parazitičeskij sbornik Zoologičeskogo instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR. 13: 394-463, figs. 1-37. (Russian). [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Gusev, A.V. (1987). Class Crustacea Lamarck, 1801. In: Bauer, O.N. (ed.). Key to the Parasites of Freshwater Fishes of the USSR. Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR, Zoologicheskii Instituta SSSR. Nauka, Leningrad 3(149):378-432. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Kabata, Z. (1979). Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes. The Ray Society, London. 152: i-xii, 1-468, figs. 1-203. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Lang, K. (1949). On some Swedish marine semi-parasitic and parasitic copepods. Arkiv för Zoologi. (A)42(22):1-10, figs. 1-15. (28-ix-1949). [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Markevich, A.P. (1937). Copepoda parasitica prisnikh vod SRSR. Copepoda parasitica der Binnengewässer der USSR. [Copepods parasitic on freshwater fishes of the USSR.]. Institut Zoologii i Biologii, Akademiya Nauk Ukrainii SSR, Kiev. :1-223, figs. 1-10, pls. 1-27. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Markevich, A.P. (1956). Paraziticheskie veslonogie ryb SSSR. [Parasitic copepods of fishes of the USSR.]. Akademiya Nauk Ukraine SSR, Institut Zoology, Kiev. 259 pp. figs. 1-153. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Ohtsuka, S., J.S. Ho, K. Nagasawa, J. Morozinska-Gogol & W. Piasecki. (2004). The identity of Limnoncaea diuncata Kokubo, 1914 (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida) from Hokkaido, Japan, with the relegation of Diergasilus Do, 1981 to a junior synonym of Thersitina Norman, 1905. Systematic Parasitology 57(1):35-44. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Sadler, K. (1977). Host parasite relationship of two copepod parasites of freshwater fishes (Lernaea cyprinacea and Thersitina gasterostei) and of the parasites of the three-spined sticklebacks in Wintersett Reservoir. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K. [details] 

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] 

 
EMODnet BathymetrySource: EMODnet Bathymetry
Countries
Polygons
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary; middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands) [details]

Habitat ectoparasite found on Gasterosteus aculeatus. intertidal and infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
    Definitions

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To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) (from synonym Thersites gasterostei Pagenstecher, 1861)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications) (from synonym Ergasilus gasterostei (Pagenstecher, 1861))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Ergasilus biuncinatus Gadd, 1901)
To PESI 
To ITIS
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