Pennella hawaiiensis Kazachenko & Kurochkin 1974 ...

• Main Author: Hogans, W. E.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Maxillopoda; Siphonostomatoida; Pennellidae; Pennella; Pennella hawaiiensis; Pacific; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6052553; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6052553

Pennella hawaiiensis Kazachenko & Kurochkin, 1974 (Fig. 11) Synonyms. None. Type host and locality. Pentoceros richardsoni, south Pacific Ocean. Morphology. Size: 80–90 mm. Papillae: partial coverage, generally spherical, variable in size and shape, not found in organized groups. Holdfasts: three, two laterals short; dorsal horn shorter. First antenna with four segments, second with two segments. Plumes: dendritic, complex branching. Remarks. A valid species. Well described, figured and discussed in the original report. An intermediate size Pennella species parasitic on a unique host, the pelagic armourhead (boarfish), P. richardsoni. Kazachenko and Kurochkin (1974) documented several specimens of the adult female and younger pre-adult individuals in metamorphosis. Pennella hawaiiensis resembles P. filosa but is a smaller parasite; it also superficially resembles and is close in size to P. remorae, but has a different cephalothoracic papillae configuration, has one less segment on the first antenna, and ... : Published as part of Hogans, W. E., 2017, Review of Pennella Oken, 1816 (Copepoda: Pennellidae) with a description of Pennella benzi sp. nov., a parasite of Escolar, Lepidocybium flavobrunneum (Pisces) in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 4244 (1) on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/400400 ...