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
Author
Hogans, W. E.
text
Zootaxa
2017
4244
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1
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journal article
36256
10.11646/zootaxa.4244.1.1
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1175-5326
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Pennella antarctica
(
Quidor, 1912
)
Not valid. Adult female originally reported from the Sei whale
Balaenoptera
borealis
off Chile. Also on the sei whale, Japan (redescribed by
Wilson 1917
). Found on the same hosts, in the same localities and falls easily within the morphological variability range of
P. balaenoptera
. Synonym of
P. balaenoptera
(
Hogans 1987
)
; accepted as
P. balaenoptera
(
Walter & Boxshall 2015
)
.