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Figure 6. Lepeophtheirus acutus Heegaard, 1943 in Redescription of Lepeophtheirus acutus Heegaard, 1943 (Copepoda: Caligidae) parasitic on two elasmobranch hosts off Okinawa-jima Island, Japan

  • 1. Laboratory of Aquaculture, Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University,

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Figure 6. Lepeophtheirus acutus Heegaard, 1943 infections on an Alfred manta Manta alfredi (Krefft, 1868) held in a sea pen off the western coastline of Okinawa-jima Island, Japan. (A) Clusters of L. acutus (indicated by arrowheads) around the mouth and on the left cephalic fin of M. alfredi (no. 22) on 15 November 2009; and (B) large lesion (indicated by arrowhead) on the dorsal body surface of M. alfredi (no. 22) caused by L. acutus on 15 November 2009.

Notes

Published as part of Tang, Danny, Maran, B.A. Venmathi, Matsumoto, Yousuke & Nagasawa, Kazuya, 2013, Redescription of Lepeophtheirus acutus Heegaard, 1943 (Copepoda: Caligidae) parasitic on two elasmobranch hosts off Okinawa-jima Island, Japan, pp. 581-596 in Journal of Natural History 47 (5-12) on page 592, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2012.738832, http://zenodo.org/record/5198477

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