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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Crustaceans (Crustacea) » Maxillopods (Maxillopoda) » Copepods (Copepoda) » Cyclopoid copepods (Cyclopoida) » Lernaeidae » Lernaea » Anchor Worm (Lernaea cyprinacea)
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Lernaea on a juvenile sculpin - Lernaea cyprinacea - female
Copyright © 2020 Bill Gerth

Lernaea on a juvenile sculpin - Lernaea cyprinacea - Female
Lookout Point Reservoir, Bill Gerth County, Oregon, USA
August 21, 2019
This is a parasitic copepod, commonly called an anchorworm, which is implanted on the juvenile fish posteriorly under the dorsal fin. You can see the two egg sacs at the hind end of the copepod.

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Lernaea on a juvenile sculpin - Lernaea cyprinacea - female Lernaea on a juvenile sculpin - Lernaea cyprinacea - female
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Contributed by Bill Gerth on 14 February, 2020 - 12:44pm
Last updated 5 October, 2020 - 7:44am

Moved
Moved from Lernaea.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 5 October, 2020 - 7:44am login or register to post comments

Lernaea cyprinacea
Submitted tissue to Lifescanner and got the mtCOI sequence back. The DNA sequence matched Lernaea cyprinacea.
… Bill Gerth, 5 October, 2020 - 12:46am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Cyclopoid copepods.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 14 February, 2020 - 1:57pm login or register to post comments

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