Caligus macarovi, Gusev, 1951

Dippenaar, Susan M. & Sebone, Makwena M., 2025, Caligus (Caligidae: Siphonostomatoida) species off southern Africa with the description of C. pillaii sp. nov., Zootaxa 5686 (2), pp. 151-197 : 167

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5686.2.1

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5E1F87E2-6C5C-9A37-FF6D-FBD0FE08FAA5

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scientific name

Caligus macarovi
status

 

Caligus macarovi View in CoL -group

Leg 4 3-segmented with compound distal segment armed with only 3 terminal spines (without lateral spine), thus I, III spines respectively; leg 1 distal exopodal segment with 3 posterior/medial pinnate setae, 3 terminal spines (1, 2 and 3) with accessory processes on spines 2 and 3, seta 4 distinctly longer than terminal spines; antenna with proximal posterior process; maxilla with marginal serrations on distal margin of brachium; abdomen 1-segmented in female ( Boxshall 2018).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Copepoda

Order

Siphonostomatoida

Family

Caligidae

Genus

Caligus

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