Vol. 50 No. 5, 2011

A New Siphonostomatoid Copepod Associated with the Ahermatypic coral Tubastraea aurea from Taiwan

Yu-Rong Cheng¹, Chang-Feng Dai¹, and Wen-Been Chang^2,3,*

¹Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan Univ., 1 Roosevelt Road, Section 4, Taipei 106, Taiwan
²National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, 2 Houwan Road, Checheng, Pingtung 944, Taiwan
³Institute of Marine Biodiversity and Evolution, National Dong Hwa University, 1 Da Hsueh Road, Section 2, Shou-Feng, Hualien 974, Taiwan

Yu-Rong Cheng, Chang-Feng Dai, and Wen-Been Chang (2011) W.A new species of siphonostomatoid copepod Cholomyzon tubastraeae sp. nov. is described. It was found from an ahermatypic coral Tubastraea aurea (Quoy and Gaimard, 1833), collected from shallow-water reefs in northern and southern Taiwan. The new species can easily be distinguished from its 2 congeners, Cho. palpiferum Stock and Humes, 1969 and Cho. brevisetigerum Humes, 1997, by the endopod of leg 3 and the armature formula as 0-1; 0-1; I-2.

Key words: Siphonostomatoid, Associated copepod, Scleractinian coral.

*Correspondence: E-mail:wenbeen@nmmba.gov.tw