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Pennella liouvillei Quidor 1912

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Description

Pennella liouvillei Quidor, 1912

Not valid. From flyingfish Exocoetus sp., South Pacific. Incompletely described and validity based on torsion of the neck/cephalothorax, proven unreliable character: Wilson (1917). A variable form and 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 25, 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
Quidor
Species
liouvillei
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pennella liouvillei Quidor, 1912 sec. Hogans, 2017

References

  • Quidor, A. (1912) Deuxieme Expedition Antarctique Francaise. (1908 - 1910). Copepodes parasites. Scientifics Naturals, Documents Scientifiques, Paris, 214 pp.
  • 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)