Caligus orientalis Gusev, 1951

Lee, Jimin, Chang, Cheon Young & Kim, Il-Hoi, 2022, Symbiotic copepods (Cyclopoida and Siphonostomatoida) collected by light trap from Korea, ZooKeys 1115, pp. 1-71 : 1

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1115.83266
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C3E233F1-0EF7-4D2D-BD4A-A32AE7C4DF5E
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scientific name	Caligus orientalis Gusev, 1951
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Treatment

Material examined.

One ♀, 2 ♂♂, Site 21, 26 May 2017; 1 ♂, Site 25, 06 Jul. 2016; 1 ♂, Site 26, 06 Jul. 2016; 3 ♀♀, 3 ♂♂, Site 27, 09 Jul. 2016; 2 ♀♀, 6 ♂♂, Site 28, 07 Jul. 2016; 4 ♀♀, 1 ♂, Site 29, 09 Jul. 2016; 1 ♀, Site 30, 17 Oct. 2020.

Remarks.

Caligus orientalis is a parasite of coastal marine and brackish-water fish in the East Asian waters. It has a wide host range and has been reported from over 20 fish species of different orders and families ( Nagasawa 2004).