Some Copepoda Parasitic on Fishes of the New Zealand Region

• Main Author: Hewitt, G C (11660101)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1968
• Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified; parasites of fishes; Diversity ecology; Copepoda; School: School of Biological Sciences; 069999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified; Marsden: 270599 Zoology; Marsden: 270799 Ecology and Evolution; Degree Discipline: Zoology; Degree Level: Doctoral; Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy; Pacific; New Zealand; Marsden; Brama; Beneden; Van Beneden; Antarc*; antarcticus; Cetorhinus maximus; Lamna nasus; Copepods; Squalus acanthias
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26686/wgtn.16946659.v1

Material representing 38 species of parasitic Copepoda, Order Caligoida, from New Zealand marine fishes, belonging to 20 genera and six families is discussed. Except for Lepeophtheirus erecsoni Thomson, of which only damaged material was available, the species are described and figured in detail. Pr...