Lernaeolophus sultanus ( Milne Edwards, 1840 )

Ramdane, Zouhir & Trilles, Jean-Paul, 2007, Parasitic copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda) from Algerian marine fishes, Zootaxa 1574 (1), pp. 49-68 : 57

Lernaeolophus sultanus ( Milne Edwards, 1840)

Lernaeolophus sultanus was found on Pagellus acarne and Boops boops , inserted in the roof of the mouth.

This species has been reported from the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Adriatic and the Indian Ocean ( Wilson 1917; Kirtisinghe 1935). In the Mediterranean, it was in particular found in Italy on Maena vulgaris ( Spicara maena ) ( Brian 1912), Spain on Lithognathus mormyrus and B. boops ( Zuniga & Suau 1967) , Tunisia on Diplodus annularis ( Seurat 1934) , Chrysophrys aurata ( Sparus aurata ), Spicara smaris , Dentex filosus ( D. gibbosus ) ( Raibaut et al. 1971), Liza saliens , Chelon labrosus ( Raibaut & Ben Hassine 1977; Ben Hassine 1983), B. boops , Pagellus erythrinus and S. aurata ( Benmansour & Ben Hassine 1997) , Turkey on Diplodus vulgaris ( Öktener & Trilles 2004b) ; it was also reported on Scorpaena scrofa , Serranus scriba , S. cabrilla , Pseudocaranx dentex and Mugil cephalus ( Raibaut et al 1998). In the Adriatic, Radujkovic and Raibaut (1987, 1989) have collected this parasite from Puntazzo puntazzo ( Diplodus puntazzo ).