Pennella antarctica Quidor 1912

Pennella antarctica (Quidor, 1912) Not valid. Adult female originally reported from the Sei whale Balaenoptera borealis off Chile. Also on the sei whale, Japan (redescribed by Wilson 1917). Found on the same hosts, in the same localities and falls easily within the morphological variability range of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hogans, W. E.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2017
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Maxillopoda
Siphonostomatoida
Pennellidae
Pennella
Pennella antarctica
Antarc*
Antarctica
Balaenoptera borealis
Northwest Atlantic
Sei Whale
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/6052477
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6052477
Description
Summary:Pennella antarctica (Quidor, 1912) Not valid. Adult female originally reported from the Sei whale Balaenoptera borealis off Chile. Also on the sei whale, Japan (redescribed by Wilson 1917). Found on the same hosts, in the same localities and falls easily within the morphological variability range of P. balaenoptera. Synonym of P. balaenoptera (Hogans 1987); accepted as P. balaenoptera (Walter & Boxshall 2015). 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 9, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4244.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/400400

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