The Salmon Louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Copepoda: Caligidae) life cycle has only two Chalimus stages.

Each year the salmon louse (Lepeophtheirussalmonis Krøyer, 1838) causes multi-million dollar commercial losses to the salmon farming industry world-wide, and strict lice control regimes have been put in place to reduce the release of salmon louse larvae from aquaculture facilities into the environme...

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Main Authors: Lars A Hamre, Christiane Eichner, Christopher Marlowe A Caipang, Sussie T Dalvin, James E Bron, Frank Nilsen, Geoff Boxshall, Rasmus Skern-Mauritzen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24069203/?tool=EBI