著者

Kazuya Nagasawa Masanori Kawazu

出版者

Carcinological Society of Japan

雑誌

Crustacean Research (ISSN:02873478)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.51, pp.11-15, 2022-01-20 (Released:2022-01-20)

参考文献数

15

被引用文献数

1

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The pennellid copepod Lernaeenicus ramosus Kirtisinghe, 1956 is a parasite of perciform and blenniiform fishes in the Indo-West Pacific region. A metamorphosed female of the species was collected from a perchlet, Chelidoperca hirundinacea (Valenciennes, 1831), caught on the neritic continental shelf of Suruga Bay, central Japan. The copepod is almost exclusively a parasite of groupers (Epinephelus spp.) in the serranid subfamily Epinephelinae, but C. hirundinacea belongs to a different serranid subfamily Serraninae. The present collection of L. ramosus represents its first record from a serranine fish in the Indo-West Pacific region.