Protosarcotretes

Protosarcotretes is a genus of marine copepods in the family Pennellidae. Its type-species is Protosarcotretes nishikawai.[1] This genus exhibits the most plesiomorphic states in the first to fourth legs of pennellids, and is differentiated from two closely related pennellid genera Sarcotretes and Lernaeenicus by the morphology of the oral appendages.

Protosarcotretes
Protosarcotretes nishikawai
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Hexanauplia
Subclass:
Copepoda
Order:
Siphonostomatoida
Family:
Pennellidae
Genus:
Protosarcotretes

Ohtsuka, Lindsay & Izawa, 2018

Species

According to Ohtsuka, Lindsay & Izawa (2018),[1] three species are included in the genus:

  • Protosarcotretes nishikawai Ohtsuka, Lindsay & Izawa, 2018 This species is a parasite of the Pacific viperfish, Chauliodus macouni.
  • Protosarcotretes multilobatus (Lewis, 1959) Ohtsuka, Lindsay & Izawa, 2018
  • Protosarcotretes gnavus (Leigh-Sharpe, 1934) Ohtsuka, Lindsay & Izawa, 2018
  • Protosarcotretes nishikawai
  • Protosarcotretes nishikawai
  • Protosarcotretes nishikawai

References
  1. Ohtsuka, Susumu; Lindsay, Dhugal J.; Izawa, Kunihiko (2018). "A new genus and species of the family Pennellidae (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) infecting the Pacific viperfish Chauliodus macouni". Parasite. 25: 6. doi:10.1051/parasite/2018003. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 5806539.


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