Nerocila sigani Bowman and Tareen 1983
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Description
Nerocila sigani Bowman and Tareen, 1983
Nerocila sigani Bowman & Tareen, 1983: 12, fig. 9.— Bruce, 1987b: 406 —Bruce & Harrisson-Nelson 1988: 597–598.— Trilles, 1994: 100.— Kensley 2001: 234.— Kazmi, Schotte & Yousuf, 2002: 104, fig. 89.— Trilles, Ravichandran & Rameshkumar, 2011:453.— Trilles, Rameshkumar & Ravichandran, 2013:1273–1286, figs 2i, 3e–h, 4, 5f–j.—Rameshkumar, Ravichandran, Sivasubramanian & Trilles, 2013c: 42, fig. 1i.— Roy & Mitra, 2013: 1134–1135, fig. 1.—Anand Kumar, Rameshkumar, Ravichandran, Nagarajan, Prabakaran & Ramesh, 2017: 3–5, fig 2e.— Ravichandran, Vigneshwaran & Rameshkumar, 2019: 60, 61.
Type material. Female holotype, National Museum of National History (USNM 190714; see Bowman & Tareen 1983).
Type locality. Arabian Gulf, Kuwait, South of Faylaka (Bowman & Tareen 1983).
Type host. Rabbit fish Siganus canaliculatus (Park, 1797) (formerly Siganus oramin), caudal fin.
Host. Carangidae, Sciaenidae and Siganidae: Siganus canaliculatus (Park 1797) (formerly Siganus oramin, see Bowman & Tareen 1983; Kazmi et al. 2002; Trilles et al. 2013; Rameshkumar et al. 2013a); Parastromateus niger (Bloch, 1795) (Bruce & Harrison-Nelson, 1988) and Johnius dussumieri (Cuvier, 1830) (Anand Kumar et al. 2017).
Distribution. Arabian Sea (Bowman & Tareen, 1983; Kazmi et al. 2002); India, southeast coast (Bruce & Harrison-Nelson, 1988; Trilles et al. 2013; Rameshkumar et al. 2013a); Malaysia, Penang (Bruce & HarrisonNelson 1988), Sarawak (Anand Kumar et al. 2017).
Remarks. Nerocila sigani may be identified by body widest at pereonites 5 and 6; cephalon anteriorly broad, rounded; pereopod dactyli without nodules; pereonites posteroventral angles pointed; coxae long, pointed; coxae 6 and 7 distinctly longer than posteroventral processes of respective pereonites; pleotelson smoothly rounded, without medial lobe; pereopods 1–5 with subequal robust setae; uropod exopod slightly longer than endopod, endopod medial margin with deep notch, lateral margin serrate (Bowman and Tareen 1983, Trilles et al. 2013).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- USNM
- Family
- Cymothoidae
- Genus
- Nerocila
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- USNM 190714
- Order
- Isopoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Bowman and Tareen
- Species
- sigani
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nerocila sigani and, 1983 sec. Martin, Tuah, Muhamad & Bruce, 2022
References
- Bowman, T. E. & Tareen, I. U. (1983) Cymothoidae from fishes of Kuwait Arabian Gulf (Crustacea: Isopoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 382, 1 - 30. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.382
- Bruce, N. L. (1987 b) Australian species of Nerocila Leach, 1818, and Creniola n. gen. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), crustacean parasites of marine fishes. Records of the Australian Museum, 39, 355 - 412. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.39.1987.174
- Trilles, J. - P. (1994) Les Cymothoidae (Crustacea, Isopoda) du Monde. Podrome pour une faune. Studia Marina 21 / 22, 1 - 288. [for 1991]
- Kensley, B. (2001) Biogeography of the marine Isopoda of the Indian Ocean, with a checklist of species and records. In: Kensley, B. & Brusca, R. C. (Eds.), Isopod Systematics and Evolution Crustacean Issues 13. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 205 - 264.
- Kazmi, Q. B., Schotte, M. & Yousuf, F. (2002) An illustrated key to the Malacostraca (Crustacea) of the northern Arabian Sea part-V, Isopoda. Pakistan Journal of Marine Sciences, 11 (1 and 2), 47 - 116.
- Rameshkumar, G., Trilles, J. - P. & Ravichandran, S. (2011) Cymothoidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) from Indian fishes. Acta Parasitologica, 56, 78 - 91. https: // doi. org / 10.2478 / s 11686 - 011 - 0002 - 5
- Rameshkumar, G., Ravichandran, S. & Trilles, J. - P. (2013 c) New occurrence of parasitic isopods from Indian fishes. Journal of Parasitic Diseases, 37 (1), 42 - 46. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12639 - 012 - 0128 - x
- Roy, M. K. D. & Mitra, S. (2013) New host record for Nerocila sigani (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from Odisha coast, India. Current Science, 104 (9), 1134 - 1135.
- Ravichandran, S., Vigneshwaran, P. & Rameshkumar, G. (2019) A taxonomic review of the fish parasitic isopod family Cymothoidae Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothooidea) of India. Zootaxa, 4622 (1), 1 - 99. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4622.1.1
- Trilles, J. - P., Rameshkumar, G. & Ravichandran, S. (2013) Nerocila species (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from Indian marine fishes. Parasitology Research, 112, 1273 - 1286. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00436 - 012 - 3263 - 5
- Rameshkumar, G., Ravichandran, S. & Sivasubramanian, K. (2013 a) Invasion of parasitic isopods in marine fishes. Journal of Coastal Life Medicine, 1, 99 - 105. https: // doi. org / 10.12980 / jclm. 1.2013 b 1340
- Bruce, N. L. & Harrison-Nelson, E. B. (1988) New records of fish parasitic marine isopod crustaceans (Cymothoidae, subfamily Anilocrinae) from the Indo - West pacific. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 101 (3), 585 - 602.