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Provedor de dados: | 104
País: | Brazil
Título: | Cymothoa spinipalpa sp. nov. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) a buccal cavity parasite of the marine fish, Oligoplites saurus (Bloch &amp;amp; Schneider) (Osteichthyes, Carangidae) of Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil
Autores: | Thatcher,Vernon E.; Araújo,Gustavo S. de; Lima,José T. A. X. de; Chellappa,Sathyabama.
Data: | 2007-03-01
Ano: | 2007
Palavras-chave: | Atlantic Ocean; Isopod parasite; Marine fish parasite.
Resumo: | Cymothoa spinipalpa sp. nov. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) a buccal cavity parasite of the marine fish, Oligoplites saurus, is described on the basis of eight male specimens and one female. The fish hosts were captured in the coastal waters of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil. In the new species, the anterior margin of the cephalon is doubled ventrally over the bases of the antennae. In this respect, it resembles C. recifea Thatcher &amp;amp; Fonseca, 2005. It differs from that species, however, in being much smaller and having basal carinae on the pereopods 4 to 7 that are small and rounded (not large and pointed). Also, pleopods 2-4 lack the folds and pockets that are present in C. recifea. The new species can be distinguished from all known Cymothoa spp. by the mandibular palps which are entirely covered with small spines in adult males. The mancas of the new species resemble those of Cymothoa oestrum since they have elongate antennae but they are wider and have shorter uropods.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-81752007000100032
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia
Relação: | 10.1590/S0101-81752007000100032
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Brasileira de Zoologia  v.24 n.1 2007
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess