Parasitic copepods (Crustacea, Hexanauplia) on fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll, Central Pacific
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Soler-Jimenez, Lilia C.
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Morales-Serna, F. Neptali
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Aguirre-Macedo, Ma. Leopoldina
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McLaughlin, John P.
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Jaramillo, Alejandra G.
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Shaw, Jenny C.
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James, Anna K.
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Hechinger, Ryan F.
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Kuris, Armand M.
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Lafferty, Kevin D.
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Vidal-Martinez, Victor M.
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ZooKeys
2019
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85
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.833.30835
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.833.30835
1313-2970-833-85
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Hatschekia longiabdominalis Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2013
Type host.
Arothron hispidus
(
Tetraodontidae
).
Other host and localities.
Arothron hispidus
(
Tetraodontidae
) from Japan (
Uyeno and Nagasawa 2013
). To date,
H. longiabdominalis
has not been recorded from others host and locality.
Current host.
Arothron hispidus
(
Tetraodontidae
).
Site of infection.
Gills.
Prevalence and mean intensity.
53.3 and 100
+/-
329.2 (n = 15).
Specimens deposited.
CHCM No. 576 (voucher) (1 vial, 1 specimen ♀). USNM
No. 1550605 (voucher) (1 vial, 1 specimen ♀).
Remarks.
Of the nine genera included in the
Hatschekiidae
, the most speciose genus is
Hatschekia
, with approximately 140 valid species so far. According to
Uyeno and Nagasawa (2013)
,
H. longiabdominalis
may be separated from other congeners by having a fusiform trunk with posterior lobes, the urosome markedly projecting beyond posterior lobes of the trunk, and unique intercoxal sclerites of legs 1 and 2, which strongly project from the middle of the anterior margin and bear four blunt processes on the posterior margin. We observed all of these characters in our specimens.