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Vol. 50 No. 5, 2011
1Six Species of the Lernanthropidae (Crustacea: Copepoda)
Parasitic on Marine Fishes of Taiwan, with a Key to 18 Species of the
Family Known from Taiwan
Ju-shey
Ho1, Wei-Cheng Liu2, and Ching-Long Lin2,*
1Department
of Biological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach, CA
90840-3702, USA
2Department of Aquatic Sciences, National Chiayi
University, Chiayi 600, Taiwan
Ju-shey Ho,
Wei-Cheng Liu, and Ching-Long Lin (2011) W.Six species of copepods belonging to
the Lernanthropidae Kabata, 1979 were found parasitic on the gill
filaments of 6 species of marine fishes of Taiwan. They are:
Lernanthropodes chorinemi Pillai, 1962 on Scomberoides commersonnianus
Lacepède (Carangidae); Lernanthropodes
trachinoti Pillai, 1962 on Trachinotus
blochii (Lacepède) (Carangidae); Lernanthropus incilis sp. nov. on Evoxymetopon poeyi Günther
(Trichiuridae); Mitrapus heteropodus
(Yü 1933) on Nematalosa nasus
(Bloch) (Clupeidae); Sagum epinepheli
(Yamaguti et Yamasu, 1960) on Epinephelus
awoara (Temminck et Schlegel) (Serranidae); and Sagum folium sp. nov. on Paracaesio caerulea (Katayama)
(Lutjanidae). Aside from the 2 new species, the other 4 known species
were recorded for the 1st time from Taiwan. A key to the 18 species of
lernanthropids occurring on marine fishes of Taiwan is provided. In
this paper we propose treating Mitrapus
rubiginosus (Redkar, Rangnekar et Murti 1949) as a junior
synonym of M. heteropodus.
Key words: Lernanthropidae,
Parasitic copepods, Taiwan, Marine fish.
*Correspondence: Tel and Fax: 886-5-2783065.
E-mail:cllin@mail.ncyu.edu.tw
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