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Pennella cervicornis Heegaard 1943

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Pennella cervicornis Heegaard, 1943

Not valid. Reported from Diodon sp. In the Bay of Bengal. The specimens described by Heegaard (1943) are similar to P. diodontis from the same host species in size, cephalothorax, neck, trunk and abdominal plume structure. Synonym of P. diodontis (Hogans 1988a). Accepted as P. diodontis (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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Biodiversity

Family
Pennellidae
Genus
Pennella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Siphonostomatoida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Heegaard
Species
cervicornis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pennella cervicornis Heegaard, 1943 sec. Hogans, 2017

References

  • 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)