CALIGUS MUSAICUS N. SP (COPEPODA, CALIGIDAE) PARASITIC ON THE EUROPEAN FLOUNDER, PLATICHTHYS FLESUS (LINNAEUS) OFF PORTUGAL

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2010

Authors

Francisca I Cavaleiro (Author) Other; Maria J Santos (Author) FCUP; Ju Shey Ho (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Crustaceana

Vol. 83 No. 4

Pages: 457-464

ISSN: 0011-216X

Publisher: Brill

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Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Earth and related Environmental sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-003-AHR

DOI: 10.1163/001121610x489359

Abstract (EN): A new species of caligid copepod, Caligus musaicus n. sp., is described from the European flounder, Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus, 1758), caught off the northern coast of Portugal. The new species is distinguished from its congeners by the combination of the following character states: (1) equipped with a short abdomen (about 1/3 the length of the thoracic zone of the cephalothoracic shield); (2) armed with a pair of parallel pointed tines on the box of the sternal furca; (3) bearing a long element IV (about 3 times as long as the next longest element) at the tip of leg 1 exopod; and (4) with a slender leg 4 exopod bearing a long outer seta (about 3 times as long as the next longest seta) at the tip of this ramus.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8