Peniculisa
| Peniculisa | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Copepoda |
| Order: | Siphonostomatoida |
| Family: | Pennellidae |
| Genus: | Peniculisa Wilson, 1917[1] |
Peniculisa is a genus of marine parasitic copepods in the family Pennellidae.[2]
Biology[edit]
Organisms from this genus are often found attached to the bodies and fins of fishes in the South Pacific and Indian oceans.[3][4] Individual fishes have been reported to harbor hundreds of Peniculisa wilsoni parasites.[4][5] Infection intensity is rarely cited for other Peniculisa species. Peniculisa parasitic infections tend to be limited to tetraodontiform and pomacentrid fishes.[3]
Taxonomy[edit]
There are nine recognized species of Peniculisa:[2]
- Peniculisa bellwoodi Boxshall, 1989 – parasite of Pomacentrus amboinensis[6]
- Peniculisa bicaudata Shiino, 1956
- Peniculisa crassa Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010 – parasite of Lactoria fornasini[3]
- Peniculisa elongata Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010 – parasite of Ostracion cubicus[3]
- Peniculisa furcata Krøyer, 1863 – parasite of Paramonacanthus frenatus (Peters, 1855), reported as syn. Paramonacanthus barnardi[7]
- Peniculisa ohirugi Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010 – parasite of Pomacentrus nagasakiensis[3]
- Peniculisa shiinoi Izawa, 1965 – parasite of Canthigaster rivulata[8][9]
- Peniculisa uchinah Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010 – parasite of Sufflamen fraenatum, Balistoides conspicillum, Rhinecanthus aculeatus, Sufflamen bursa, Sufflamen chrysopterum and Pervagor melanocephalus[3]
- Peniculisa wilsoni Radhakrishnan, 1977 – parasite of Diodon hystrix,[10] Arothron immaculatus, Arothron hispidus and Diodon holocanthus[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Wilson, Charles Branch (1917). "North American parasitic copepods belonging to the Lernaeidae with a revision of the entire family". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 53 (2194): 1–150. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.53-2194.1.
- ^ a b Walter TC, Boxshall G, eds. (2021). "Peniculisa Wilson C.B., 1917". World of Copepods database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f Daisuke Uyeno & Kazuya Nagasawa (2010). "Four new species of Peniculisa Wilson, 1917 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Pennellidae) parasitic on coastal marine fishes in Japanese waters". Journal of Parasitology. 96 (4): 689–702. doi:10.1645/ge-2395.1. JSTOR 40802601. PMID 20496962.
- ^ a b A. Chandran & P. Natarajan (1994). "Heavy infection of Diodon hystrix by the copepod Peniculisa wilsoni (Siphonostomatoida, Pennellidae)". Journal of Fish Biology. 45 (1): 167–168. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.1994.tb01295.x.
- ^ a b A. Chandran & P. Natarajan (1991). "Record of new hosts for Peniculisa wilsoni Radhakrishnan, 1977 (Copepoda, Pennellidae)". Crustaceana. 61 (1): 107–108. doi:10.1163/156854091X00605.
- ^ Geoffrey A. Boxshall (1989). "Parasitic copepods of fishes: a new genus of the Hatschekiidae from New Caledonia, and new records of the Pennellidae, Sphyriidae and Lernanthropidae from the South Atlantic and South Pacific". Systematic Parasitology. 13 (3): 201–222. doi:10.1007/BF00009746. S2CID 20948353.
- ^ Brian Kensley & John R. Grindley (1973). "South African parasitic Copepoda". Annals of the South African Museum. 62: 69–130.
- ^ Kunihiko Izawa (1997). "The copepodid of Peniculisa shiinoi Izawa, 1965 (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida, Pennellidae), a single free-swimming larval stage of the species". Crustaceana. 70 (8): 911–919. doi:10.1163/156854097X00537.
- ^ Kunihiko Izawa (1965). "A new parasitic copepod of the genus Peniculisa Wilson from Seto, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan". Report of the Faculty of Fisheries, Prefectural University of Mie. 5: 365–374.
- ^ S. Radhakrishnan (1977). "Description of a new species of Peniculisa including its immature stages". Hydrobiologia. 52 (2–3): 251–255. doi:10.1007/BF00036450. S2CID 10002464.