Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Nesippus crypturus Heller, 1865

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Copepoda

Order
Siphonostomatoida

Family
Pandaridae

Genus
Nesippus

Species
crypturus

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Nesippus gracilis Wilson C.B., 1935,Nesippus occultus Wilson C.B., 1924 (Horton et al., 2021)

References

  • 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, Nesippus crypturus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=14654. Accessed 6 November 2026.