Pennella longicauda Gnanamuthu 1957
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Description
Pennella longicauda Gnanamuthu, 1957
(Fig. 13)
Synonyms. Pennella oxyporhamphi Sebastian, 1966
Type host and locality. Cypselerus bahiensis, Madras, Indian Ocean..
Morphology. Size: 35 mm. Papillae: partial coverage, clavate and tubiform, not spherical, unorganized arrangement. Holdfasts: two only, short. First antenna with five segments, second with three segments. Plumes: simple, single or double,
Remarks. Species inquirendae. Described from the flyingfish, s pecies inquirendae according to Hogans (1988a), based on missing type material. A brief account of a new species, figures in the original description show that the single specimen documented is sufficiently different from other Pennella to warrant consideration as a distinct species. Pennella longicauda is another small Pennella and exhibits unique cephalothoracic papillae (elongate, tubiform, not spherical- Fig. 13 b); the specimen described by Gnanamuthu (1957) was a gravid female with eggs strings. It has not been 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
- longicauda
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pennella longicauda Gnanamuthu, 1957 sec. Hogans, 2017
References
- Gnanamuthu, C. P. (1957) Lernaeid copepods parasitic on flyingfish. Parasitology, 47 (1), 113 - 125.
- Sebastian, M. J. (1966) Observations on a few parasitic copepods of south India. Bulletin of the Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography, University of Kerala, 2, 19 - 25.
- 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.