New Antarctic records of Herpyllobius Steenstrup and Lütken, 1861 (parasitic Copepoda) from the EASIZ-III cruise, with description of two new species

• Published in: Scientia Marina
• Main Authors: Pablo J. López-González, José Bresciani
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2001
• Subjects: parasitic copepoda; herpyllobiidae; herpyllobius; antarctica; Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling; SH1-691; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Weddell Sea; Bransfield Strait; Weddell; Antarc*; Antarctica; antarcticus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.2001.65n4357; https://doaj.org/article/4e633320887e46b4b604dd0741ba434c

Two new species of the genus Herpyllobius Steenstrup and Lütken, 1861, H. vanhoeffeni, and H. luetzeni are described associated with polynoid polychaetes collected during the EASIZ III cruise in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Peninsula. New records of Herpyllobius antarcticus Vanhöffen, 1913, and H. polarsterni López-González et al., 2000 from Antarctic Peninsula and Eastern Weddell Sea are also given. Including the present records, 17 species of Herpyllobius are now known, 11 of which having been reported from the Southern Hemisphere. The ordinal position of the Herpyllobiidae is discussed according to phylogenetic inferences from the antennular ontogenetic features of the copepodid males of two of the three known genera in the family, Herpyllobius and Eurysilenium Sars, 1870.