Caligus infestans
Caligus infestans is a species of sea louse in the family, Caligidae, first described by Camill Heller in 1865.
In Australia it is found as an ecto-parasite of fishes at depths of 200 metres in the following IMCRA zones - Central Eastern Shelf Transition, Northeast Shelf Province, and the Northeast Shelf Transition - that is, in seas off the north east coast of Australia.
A search of the Smithsonian Invertebrates Collection reveals they have also been found off:
- the Greater Sunda Islands USNM 180506
- Phuket USNM 180517
- Indian Ocean USNM 180518