Pennella remorae Murray 1856 ...

• Main Author: Hogans, W. E.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Maxillopoda; Siphonostomatoida; Pennellidae; Pennella; Pennella remorae; Nunes; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6052585; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6052585

Pennella remorae Murray, 1856 (Fig. 16) Synonyms. None Type host and locality. Echeneis remora, Atlantic Ocean. Morphology. Size: 99 mm. Papillae: partial coverage, generally spherical, variable in size and shape, found in distinct, organized groups. Holdfasts: three, two laterals short; dorsal horn shorter. First antenna with five segments, second with two segments. Plumes: dendritic, complex branching. Remarks. Species inquirendae. Delamare Deboutteville and Nunes-Ruivo (1951) redescribed P. remorae from a single whole specimen collected from Echeneis remora (= E. naucrates). Original description (Murray, 1856) from a specimen (without anterior embedded portion of the parasite) collected from the same host species, also in the Atlantic Ocean. Hogans (1988a) incorrectly considered P. remorae to be a synonym of P. filosa. Although Delamare Deboutteville & Nunes-Ruivo had only a single specimen, both the description and figures are wellexecuted and show that P. remorae has several features which may ... : 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 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/400400 ...