title: A new species of Hamaticolax Ho & Lin, 2006 (Copepoda: Bomolochidae) from deep water macrourids in the Mediterranean.
abstract: Hamaticolax resupinus n. sp. is described from specimens collected from the gill cavities of Coelorinchus mediterraneus Iwamoto & Ungaro and Coryphaenoides mediterraneus (Giglioli) (Gadiformes: Macrouridae) caught in the Western Mediterranean Sea at depths between 1,236 and 1,626 m. Hamaticolax resupinus n. sp. closely resembles H. maleus Oldewage, 1994, but differs from the latter by its smaller body size and in having a genital double-somite in the female that is markedly wider than the free abdominal somites and has strongly convex lateral margins. The new species is only the second bomolochid found on a macrourid host and is the first from depths in excess of 1,200 m. Hamaticolax resupinus n. sp. also represents the first parasitic copepod recorded from Coe. mediterraneus and only the third one from Cor. mediterraneus worldwide.
authors.affiliation: Departament de Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pérez-I-García
authors.affiliation: Departament de Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Barcelona, Spain. Maite.Carrasson@uab.cat.
authors.forename: Maite
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Carrassón
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK.
authors.forename: Geoffrey Allan
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Boxshall
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D033342:Copepoda / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D005260:Female; D048388:Gadiformes / Q000469:parasitology*; D005880:Gills / Q000469:parasitology*; D008297:Male; D008522:Mediterranean Sea; D013045:Species Specificity