A new species of Peniculus (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) parasitizing mesopelagic myctophid fish: first discovery of colonization of the genus in deep water

Peniculus hokutoae n. sp. is described on the basis of an ovigerous adult female parasitizing the caudal fin of the myctophid fish Symbolophorus evermanni (Gilbert, 1905), collected from Suruga Bay, Japan. This is the first record of parasitism by this genus on mesopelagic myctophid fish. The new sp...

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Autores principales: Ohtsuka, Susumu, Nishikawa, Jun, Boxshall, Geoffrey A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EDP Sciences 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6254144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30474599
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2018057

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6254144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30474599
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2018057

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