Pennella pustulosa Baird 1850

Pennella pustulosa Baird, 1850 Not valid. Described from a specimen collected from Corpyphaena sp., Australia (Baird, 1850). The single specimen was without a cephalothorax or holdfasts (i.e. only the external portion of the parasite was documented). Inadequate description and insufficient informati...

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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 pustulosa
Northwest Atlantic
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/6052583
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6052583
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Summary:Pennella pustulosa Baird, 1850 Not valid. Described from a specimen collected from Corpyphaena sp., Australia (Baird, 1850). The single specimen was without a cephalothorax or holdfasts (i.e. only the external portion of the parasite was documented). Inadequate description and insufficient information; synonym of P. filosa (Leigh-Sharpe 1928); accepted as P. filosa (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 28, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4244.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/400400

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