Pennella robusta Gnanamuthu 1957
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Description
Pennella robusta Gnanamuthu, 1957
(Fig. 17)
Synonyms. None.
Type host and locality. Paraexocoetus brachypteris; Indian Ocean. Morphology. Size: 55 mm. Papillae: partial coverage, spherical, clavate and branching tubiform, random arrangement. Holdfasts: two only, short. First antenna with three segments, second with three segments. Plumes: simple, single or double.
Remarks. Species inquirendae. An intermediate sized species of Pennella described from a flyingfish,, based on a single specimen. Hogans (1988a) considered P. robusta as species inquirendae based on a lack of type material, although the original description and figures do portray the species. The cephalothoracic papillae (tubiform and spherical and configured in an elongate field- Figure 17 b), of P. robusta are different than those found in any other species of Pennella and much different from other species also found on flyingfish. Egg strings were present on the specimen originally described. Not reported since the original record.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pennellidae
- Genus
- Pennella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Siphonostomatoida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Gnanamuthu
- Species
- robusta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pennella robusta Gnanamuthu, 1957 sec. Hogans, 2017
References
- Gnanamuthu, C. P. (1957) Lernaeid copepods parasitic on flyingfish. Parasitology, 47 (1), 113 - 125.
- 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.