Pennella longicauda Gnanamuthu 1957

• Main Author: Hogans, W. E.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Maxillopoda; Siphonostomatoida; Pennellidae; Pennella; Pennella longicauda; Indian; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6052571; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6052571

Pennella longicauda Gnanamuthu, 1957 (Fig. 13) Synonyms. Pennella oxyporhamphi Sebastian, 1966 Type host and locality. Cypselerus bahiensis, Madras, Indian Ocean. Morphology. Size: 35 mm. Papillae: partial coverage, clavate and tubiform, not spherical, unorganized arrangement. Holdfasts: two only, short. First antenna with five segments, second with three segments. Plumes: simple, single or double, Remarks. Species inquirendae. Described from the flyingfish, s pecies inquirendae according to Hogans (1988a), based on missing type material. A brief account of a new species, figures in the original description show that the single specimen documented is sufficiently different from other Pennella to warrant consideration as a distinct species. Pennella longicauda is another small Pennella and exhibits unique cephalothoracic papillae (elongate, tubiform, not spherical- Fig. 13 b); the specimen described by Gnanamuthu (1957) was a gravid female with eggs strings. It has not been reported since the original record. 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 25, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4244.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/400400