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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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4244.1.1
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Pennella zeylanica
Kirtisinghe, 1933
Not valid. Reported from Pacific sailfish,
Istiophorous gladius
(=
I. platypterus
), Ceylon. The original description and figures clearly indicate that
P. zeylanica
is identical with
P. instructa
of
Wilson (1917)
(cephalothoracic papillae and holdfast horn configuration is the same between the two species) which is also found on sailfish (
Hogans 1986 and references therein
). Synonym of
P. instructa
(
Hogans 1986
)
; accepted as
P. instructa
(
Walter & Boxshall 2015
)
.