Cardiodectes is a genus of copepods in the family Pennellidae.[2] Species are parasites of fish.[1]

Cardiodectes
A colony of Hydrichthys sarcotretis attached to parasitic copepod Cardiodectes medusaeus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Copepoda
Order: Siphonostomatoida
Family: Pennellidae
Genus: Cardiodectes
C. B. Wilson, 1917[1]
Species

15 species (see text)

Species

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There are 15 species:[2]

Cardiodectes medusaeus (Wilson C.B., 1908) is a synonym of Cardiodectes bellottii.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Wilson, Charles Branch (1917). "North American parasitic copepods belonging to the Lernaeidae with a revision of the entire family". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 53 (2194): 1–150. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.53-2194.1.
  2. ^ a b c Walter TC, Boxshall G, eds. (2021). "Cardiodectes Wilson C.B., 1917". World of Copepods database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  3. ^ Hogans, W. E. (2017). "Cardiodectes medusaeus (Copepoda: Pennellidae) a synonym of Cardiodectes bellottii, a parasite of mid-water fishes in the North Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 130 (1): 250–255. doi:10.2988/17-00019. S2CID 89975409.
  • Uyeno, D. 2013: Two new species of Cardiodectes Wilson, 1917 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Pennellidae) from gobiid fishes (Actinopterygii: Perciformes) in the western Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 3664(3), pages 301–311, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3664.3.1
  • Uyeno, D.; Nagasawa, K. 2010: Three new species of the family Pennellidae (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) from gobiid fishes (Actinopterygii: Perciformes) in coastal waters of the western Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa, 2687, pages 29–44