Review of Pennella Oken, 1816 (Copepoda: Pennellidae) with a description of Pennella benzi sp. nov., a parasite of Escolar, Lepidocybium flavobrunneum (Pisces) in the northwest Atlantic Ocean
Hogans, W. E.
Zootaxa
2017
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Gnanamuthu, 1957
Gnanamuthu
1957
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Maxillopoda
Pennellidae
Pennella
Animalia
Siphonostomatoida
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30
Arthropoda
species
robusta
Synonyms.None.
Type host and locality. Paraexocoetus brachypteris; Indian Ocean. Morphology.Size: 55 mm. Papillae: partial coverage, spherical, clavate and branching tubiform, random arrangement. Holdfasts: two only, short. First antenna with three segments, second with three segments. Plumes: simple, single or double.
Remarks. Species inquirendae. An intermediate sized species of Pennelladescribed from a flyingfish,, based on a single specimen. Hogans (1988a)considered P. robustaas species inquirendaebased on a lack of type material, although the original description and figures do portray the species. The cephalothoracic papillae (tubiform and spherical and configured in an elongate field- Figure 17b), of P. robustaare different than those found in any other species of Pennellaand much different from other species also found on flyingfish. Egg strings were present on the specimen originally described. Not reported since the original record.