Peniculisa
Peniculisa is a genus of marine parasitic copepods in the family Pennellidae.
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| Genus: | Peniculisa Wilson, 1917 |
Biology
Organisms from this genus are often found attached to the bodies and fins of fishes in the South Pacific and Indian oceans.[1][2] Individual fishes have been reported to harbor hundreds of Peniculisa wilsoni parasites.[2][3] Infection intensity is rarely cited for other Peniculisa species. Peniculisa parasitic infections tend to be limited to tetraodontiform and pomacentrid fishes.[1]
Taxonomy
There are nine recognized species of Peniculisa:
- Peniculisa bellwoodi Boxshall, 1989 – parasite of Pomacentrus amboinensis[4]
- Peniculisa bicaudata Shiino, 1956
- Peniculisa crassa Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010 – parasite of Lactoria fornasini[1]
- Peniculisa elongata Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010 – parasite of Ostracion cubicus[1]
- Peniculisa furcata Krøyer, 1863 – parasite of Paramonacanthus barnardi[5]
- Peniculisa ohirugi Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010 – parasite of Pomacentrus nagasakiensis[1]
- Peniculisa uchinah Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010 – parasite of Sufflamen fraenatum, Balistoides conspicillum, Rhinecanthus aculeatus, Sufflamen bursa, Sufflamen chrysopterum and Pervagor melanocephalus[1]
- Peniculisa shiinoi Izawa, 1965 – parasite of Canthigaster rivulata[6][7]
- Peniculisa wilsoni Radhakrishnan, 1977 – parasite of Diodon hystrix,[8] Arothron immaculatus, Arothron hispidus and Diodon holocanthus[3]
References
- 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.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- 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.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- 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.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- 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: 201–222. doi:10.1007/BF00009746.
- Brian Kensley & John R. Grindley (1973). "South African parasitic Copepoda". Annals of the South African Museum. 62: 69–130.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- 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.
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