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Pennella blainvillei Lesueur 1824

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Description

Pennella blainvillei (Lesueur, 1824)

Not valid. Described from flying fish (no specific host species name given) in the Atlantic; probably Exocoetus sp. (Yamaguti 1963); incomplete original description; (possibly P. exocoeti Leigh-Sharpe 1928); synonym of P. exocoeti (Wilson 1917; Hogans 1988a). Accepted as P. exocoeti (Walter & Boxshall 2015).

Notes

Published as part of Hogans, W. E., 2017, 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, pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 4244 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/400400

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Pennellidae
Genus
Pennella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Siphonostomatoida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Lesueur
Species
blainvillei
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pennella blainvillei Lesueur, 1824 sec. Hogans, 2017

References

  • Lesueur, C. A. (1824) On three new species of parasitic vermes belonging to the Linnaeen genus Lernaea. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 6, 286 - 293.
  • Yamaguti, S. (1963) Parasitic Copepoda and Branchiura of fishes. Interscience Publishers, New York, 1104 pp.
  • Leigh-Sharpe, W. H. (1928) The genus Pennella (Copepoda) as represented by the collection in the British Museum. Parasitology, 20, 79 - 89.
  • Wilson, C. B. (1917) North American parasitic copepods belonging to the family Lernaeidae with a revision of the entire family. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 53, 1 - 150.
  • Hogans, W. E. (1988 a) Redescription of Pennella sagitta (Copepoda: Pennellidae) from Histrio histrio (Pisces) in the northwest Atlantic Ocean with a provisional review of the genus Pennella Oken, 1816. Journal of Zoology, London, 216 (2), 379 - 390.
  • Walter, T. C. & Boxshall, G. A. (2015) World of copepods database. Genus Pennella. (Copepoda), December 2015; March - April 2016. Available from: http: // www. marinespecies. org / (accessed 9 January 2017)