Renocila alkoo Bruce, 1987

Ravichandran, S., Vigneshwaran, P. & Rameshkumar, G., 2019, A taxonomic review of the fish parasitic isopod family Cymothoidae Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothooidea) of India, Zootaxa 4622 (1), pp. 1-99 : 72-73

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4622.1.1

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urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4537BB46-452F-4E0C-A444-4AA5E12A64E7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5698845

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E129637E-FFDD-A40B-FF47-F9FDFE14FE77

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Plazi

scientific name

Renocila alkoo Bruce, 1987
status

 

Renocila alkoo Bruce, 1987 View in CoL

Renocila alkoo Bruce, 1987c: 177–178 View in CoL , figs 5, 6 View FIGURE 6 .

Rcnocila ovate. — Barnard, 1936: 161, fig. 5.— Trilles, Ravichandran & Rameshkumar, 2011: 453.

Type and type locality. The holotype ovig. female (13.5 mm) held at the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia ( QM WIOS 44) from the Bushy Island (Redbill Cay), Great Barrier Reef, Australia .

Remarks. This species can be recognized by the posterolateral margins of pereonites 6-7 weakly produced, laterally bent. Renocila alkoo resemblance to R. ovata but is easily distinguished by having far shorter pereopod dactylus, longer antenna, pereopod 7 manifestly larger than 6 (both with a weakly carinate basis), and posterodistal angle of pereopod 1 basis truncate.

Barnard (1936) recorded Renocila ovata Miers, 1880 from Andaman Islands India, and gave figures of the maxilliped, mandible palp and pereopods 1 and 7 are similar to the illustrations of R. alkoo ( Bruce 1987c) . The figure of pereopod 1 differs from material examined by Bruce (1987c) having the posterodistal angle of the basis for more strongly produced, the posterior margin of the ischium carinate, and a shorter dactylus without nodules. Pereopod 7 differs by having a prominent carina on both the basis and ischium. Barnard’s material is not R. ovata , but is probably R. alkoo .

Distribution. Reported from Andaman Islands India ( Barnard 1936) and Great Barrier Reef from the Capricorn Group in the south to Swains Reefs and Bushy Island reef off Mackay ( Bruce 1987c).

Hosts. Unknown.

QM

Queensland Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Isopoda

Family

Cymothoidae

Genus

Renocila

Loc

Renocila alkoo Bruce, 1987

Ravichandran, S., Vigneshwaran, P. & Rameshkumar, G. 2019
2019
Loc

Renocila alkoo

Bruce 1987: 177
1987
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