Pennella platycephalus Gnanamuthu 1957
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Description
Pennella platycephalus Gnanamuthu, 1957
(Fig. 15)
Synonyms. None.
Type host and locality. Cypselurus sp., Indian Ocean.
Morphology. Size: 37 mm. Papillae: partial coverage, a few spherical only, configured in a single small group. Holdfasts: two only, short. First and second antenna (not described or figured- no information). Plumes: simple, all but one single or double; one set shown with four plumules (original figures).
Remarks. Species inquirendae. Original description from a single specimen found on a flyingfish (Cypselurus). Species inquirendae according to Hogans (1988a), based on missing type material and brief description/ figures. Pennella platycephalus is one of several new species of small Pennella described from flyingfish in the Indian Ocean by Gnanamuthu (1957) in a single paper. Pennella platycephalus exhibits a cephalothorax shape (Figure 15 b) unique amongst Pennella species; the cephalothoracic papillae are few in number and spherical, a feature not found in any other species parasitizing flyingfish. The original specimen was described from a gravid female with eggs strings. There have been no reports of this species since the initial record.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pennellidae
- Genus
- Pennella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Siphonostomatoida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Gnanamuthu
- Species
- platycephalus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pennella platycephalus 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.