Galapagos Species Database
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Amaterasia lewisi
Artrópodo, Arthropod
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Copepoda
Order
Siphonostomatoida
Family
Pandaridae
Genus
Amaterasia
Species
lewisi
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Nesippus costatus Wilson C.B., 1924 (Horton et al., 2021).
- 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, Amaterasia lewisi", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20185. Accessed 5 November 2026.