Two new species of taeniacanthid copepods (Poecilostomatoida) parasitic on marine fishes of Taiwan.
Two new species of copepods (Poecilostomatoida Taeniacanthidae) parasitic on fishes of Taiwan are reported. They are: Irodes parupenei n. sp. from Parupeneus spilurus (Bleeker) and P. multifasciatus (Quoy & Gaimard), and Taeniacanthus spiniferus n. sp. from Acanthocepola limbata Valenciennes. I. parupenei is characteristic in having nine (instead of eight) elements on the terminal segment of leg 2 exopod, a spiniform element (instead of a long, plumose seta) on the medial margin of the proximal segment of leg 4 endopod, and thee spines and one long, naked seta (rather than four short setae) on the slender (rather than spatula-like), terminal segment of leg 5. T. spiniferus is distinguished from its 38 congeners in carrying a pair of sharp tines in the ventral area of the rostrum.
Ho
Ju-Shey
JS
Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach, California 90840-3702, USA. jsho@csulb.edu
Lin
Ching-Long
CL
D000818:Animals; D033342:Copepoda / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D005399:Fishes / Q000469:parasitology*; D010473:Perciformes / Q000469:parasitology*; D012623:Seawater; D013624:Taiwan