title: Rare parasitic copepods (Siphonostomatoida: Lernanthropidae) from Egyptian Red Sea fishes.
abstract: Two rare species of parasitic copepods belonging to the genus Lernanthropus de Blainville, 1822 (Siphonostomatoida: Lernanthropidae) are redescribed in detail, based on material collected from Red Sea fishes, caught at El-Tor, near Sharm El-Sheikh on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. Adult females of Lernanthropus sanguineus Song & Chen, 1976 were found on the gills of snapper Lutjanus fulviflamma (Forsskål). This species was known only from its original description based on material from Chinese waters. Adult females of Lernanthropus triangularis Pillai, 1963 were obtained from the gills of mojarra Gerres oyena (Forsskål). Both parasite species are new records for Egyptian Red Sea waters and both host records are new.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oceanography, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Moharram Bey, Alexandria, Egypt.
authors.forename: Hoda Hassan
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: El-Rashidy
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK. g.boxshall@nhm.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Geoffrey Allan
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-8170-7734
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Boxshall
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D033342:Copepoda / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D004534:Egypt; D005260:Female; D005399:Fishes / Q000469:parasitology*; D005880:Gills / Q000469:parasitology; D013045:Species Specificity