The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Copepoda

(copepods)

 

 lernaea

LERNAEIDAE

Lernaea sp.

 

Species reported
          from Texas:

 

 

Lernaea anomala

Lernaea carassii

Lernaea catostona

Lernaea cyprinacea

Lernaea tenuis

 

 
Distribution Citations

1950 Fullwood

1976 Bird

 

notes:
*all species are ectoparasitic on fish (Fitzpatrick 1983)

*species identification is quite difficult (Fitzpatrick 1983)

*refs are for reports of genus only; species refs not included here; [ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated
copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser 
                          2010

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