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Pennella makaira Hogans 1988
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Description
Pennella makaira Hogans, 1988
(Fig. 14)
Synonyms. None
Type host and locality. Makaira nigricans, Caribbean Sea.
Morphology. Size: 27–29 mm. Papillae: full coverage, spherical, clavate and tubiform, simple branching; unorganized arrangement. Holdfasts: two only, short. First antenna with three segments, second with two segments. Plumes: simple, single or double.
Remarks. A valid species. Found so far only on blue marlin (M. nigricans) in the south Atlantic (Hogans 1988c; Williams & Bunkley-Williams 1996). A small species with a unique overall shape and uniform papillae structure between specimens. The only small (<50 mm) Pennella known to infest large scombriform fishes.
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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pennellidae
- Genus
- Pennella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Siphonostomatoida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Hogans
- Species
- makaira
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pennella makaira Hogans, 1988 sec. Hogans, 2017
References
- Hogans, W. E. (1988 c) Pennella makaira new species (Copepoda: Pennellidae) from the Atlantic Blue Marlin (Makira nigricans) in the Caribbean Sea. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 101 (1), 15 - 19.
- Williams, E. H. & Bunkley-Williams, L. (1996) Parasites of offshore big game fishes of Puerto Rico and the western Atlantic. University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, 329 pp.