Affiliations 

  • 1 Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. mark@um.edu.my
Parasit Vectors, 2013;6(1):336.
PMID: 24286135 DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-336

Abstract

The Caligidae is a family of parasitic copepods containing over 30 recognised genera. They are commercially important parasites as they cause disease in numerous finfish aquaculture facilities globally. Morphological features are used to distinguish between the genera and Pseudocaligus has traditionally been differentiated from Caligus solely by the presence of a much reduced form of the fourth thoracic leg. Currently there are numerous DNA sequences available for Caligus spp. but only the type species, Pseudocaligus brevipedis, has molecular data available, so systematic studies using molecular phylogenetic analyses have been limited.

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