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
1
1
38
journal article
36256
10.11646/zootaxa.4244.1.1
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1175-5326
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Pennella crassicornis
Steenstrup & Lutken, 1861
Not valid. Original report from Bottlenose whales (
Hyperodon ampullatus
and
Ziphias cavirostris
) and pelagic fishes (
Xiphias gladius
,
Mola mola
and
Naucrates
ductor
) in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Original figures and description not detailed enough to separate the species from
P. filosa
or
P. balaenoptera
,
both of which it closely resembles; synonym of
P. filosa
on fishes, of
P. balaenoptera
on mammals (
Hogans 1987
); accepted as
P. filosa
(
Walter & Boxshall 2015
)
.