Pennella platycephalus Gnanamuthu 1957 ...

• Main Author: Hogans, W. E.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Maxillopoda; Siphonostomatoida; Pennellidae; Pennella; Pennella platycephalus; Indian; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6052578; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6052578

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 ... : 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 page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/400400 ...