Pennella anthonyi Quidor 1912

Pennella anthonyi (Quidor, 1912) Not valid. Described from fin whales, Balaenoptera physalus, Chile. Quidor (1912) used abdominal plume configuration to differentiate this species; this is an unreliable character. A synonym of P. balaenoptera (Hogans 1987); accepted as P. balaenoptera (Walter &...

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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 anthonyi
Balaenoptera physalus
Northwest Atlantic
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/6052483
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6052483
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Summary:Pennella anthonyi (Quidor, 1912) Not valid. Described from fin whales, Balaenoptera physalus, Chile. Quidor (1912) used abdominal plume configuration to differentiate this species; this is an unreliable character. A 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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