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
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4244.1.1
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Pennella elegans
Gnanamuthu, 1957
(
Fig. 8
)
Synonyms.
None
Type host and locality.
Cypselurus
sp., Indian Ocean
Morphology.
Size:
35 mm
. Papillae: partial coverage, clavate, a few spherical, unorganized arrangement. Holdfasts: two only, short. First antenna (no information), second with three segments. Plumes: simple, single or double.
Remarks.
Species inquirendae
.
Hogans (1988a)
considered
P. elegans
as
species inquirendae
based on a lack of
type
material. The original description, though brief, portrays the species as exhibiting a unique cephalothoracic shape and papillae configuration (
Fig. 8
b).
Pennella elegans
is a small species originally described from a single female without egg strings. The only other record of
P. elegans
(from the same host and locality as the original record) is by
Kannapuandi (1976)
who described the cuticular adaptations in various structures of the parasite, but did not further elaborate on its morphology.