Pennella elegans Gnanamuthu 1957
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Description
Pennella elegans Gnanamuthu, 1957
(Fig. 8)
Synonyms. None
Type host and locality. Cypselurus sp., Indian Ocean
Morphology. Size: 35 mm. Papillae: partial coverage, clavate, a few spherical, unorganized arrangement. Holdfasts: two only, short. First antenna (no information), second with three segments. Plumes: simple, single or double.
Remarks. Species inquirendae. Hogans (1988a) considered P. elegans as species inquirendae based on a lack of type material. The original description, though brief, portrays the species as exhibiting a unique cephalothoracic shape and papillae configuration (Fig. 8 b). Pennella elegans is a small species originally described from a single female without egg strings. The only other record of P. elegans (from the same host and locality as the original record) is by Kannapuandi (1976) who described the cuticular adaptations in various structures of the parasite, but did not further elaborate on its morphology.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pennellidae
- Genus
- Pennella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Siphonostomatoida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Gnanamuthu
- Species
- elegans
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pennella elegans 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.
- Kannapuandi, T. (1976) Cuticular adaptations in two parasitic copepods in relation to their modes of life. Biological Ecology, 22, 235 - 248.