Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Caligus parvus
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Copepoda
Order
Siphonostomatoida
Family
Caligidae
Genus
Caligus
Species
parvus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Pseudocaligus parvus (Bassett-Smith, 1898) (Horton et al., 2021).
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Wilson, C.B. (1924) Parasitic copeopods from the Williams Galapagos Expedition. Zoologica 5(19): 211-217.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Caligus parvus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=14644. Accessed 6 November 2026.