Lepeophtheirus elegans

Known fish hosts are the stichaeids Chirolophis japonicus Herzenstein and Pholidapus dybowskii (Steindachner) from Russia, Japan and Korea, the pholid Pholis picta (Kner), the cottid Myoxocephalus brandtii (Steindachner), both from Russian waters and the sebastid Sebastes schlegelii Hilgendorf, the Korean rockfish.[2]

First chalimus:
A, leg 3;
B, leg 3 (other specimen);
C, leg 4;
D, caudal ramus;
E, habitus of putative female, dorsal.
Scale bars: A–D = 0.025 mm; E = 0.2 mm.

Lepeophtheirus elegans
Adult female:


A, habitus, dorsal;
B, antennule;
C, antenna;
D, mandible;
E, postantennary process;
F, maxillule;
G, maxilla;
H, maxilliped;
I, abdomen, ventral.
Scale bars: A = 0.4 mm; B–I = 0.1 mm.

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Hexanauplia
Order: Siphonostomatoida
Family: Caligidae
Genus: Lepeophtheirus
Species:
L. elegans
Binomial name
Lepeophtheirus elegans
Gusev, 1951[1]

Lepeophtheirus elegans is a species of sea lice.

References
  1. Parasitic Copepoda of some marine fishes. AV Gusev, Parazitologicheski Sbornik, 1951
  2. Venmathi Maran, Balu Alagar; Moon, Seong Yong; Ohtsuka, Susumu; Oh, Sung-Yong; Soh, Ho Young; Myoung, Jung-Goo; Iglikowska, Anna; Boxshall, Geoffrey Allan (2013). "The caligid life cycle: new evidence from Lepeophtheirus elegans reconciles the cycles of Caligus and Lepeophtheirus (Copepoda: Caligidae)". Parasite. 20: 15. doi:10.1051/parasite/2013015. PMC 3718518.
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