Pennella histiophori Thomson, 1889

Hogans, W. E., 2017, Review of Pennella Oken, 1816 (Copepoda: Pennellidae) with a description of Pennella benzi sp. nov., a parasite of Escolar, Lepidocybium flavobrunneum (Pisces) in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, Zootaxa 4244 (1), pp. 1-38 : 23

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scientific name	Pennella histiophori Thomson, 1889
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Not valid. The original description is from specimens recovered from the Pacific Sailfish Histiophorus hescheli (= Istiophorus platycephalus ) off New Zealand. The descriptions and figures resemble closely specimens of P. filosa also recorded from Pacific Sailfish (ex: off coastal Mexico, Causey 1960). The specimens of P. histiophori fall within the length and morphological variability range of most specimens of P. filosa from many different species of large pelagic scombriform fishes ( Hogans 1987). Pennella histiophori is a synonym of P. filosa ( Hogans 1988a) ; accepted as P. filosa ( Walter & Boxshall 2015) .

References

Causey, D. (1960) Parasitic Copepoda of Mexican coastal fishes. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Carribean, 10, 323 - 337.

Hogans, W. E. (1987) Morphological variability in Pennella balaenoptera and P. filose (Copepoda: Pennellidae) with a review of the genus Pennella Oken, 1816 parasitic on Cetacea. Bulletin of Marine Science, 40, 442 - 453.

Hogans, W. E. (1988 a) Redescription of Pennella sagitta (Copepoda: Pennellidae) from Histrio histrio (Pisces) in the northwest Atlantic Ocean with a provisional review of the genus Pennella Oken, 1816. Journal of Zoology, London, 216 (2), 379 - 390.

Thomson, G. M. (1889) Parasitic Copepoda of New Zealand. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 22, 353 - 375.

Walter, T. C. & Boxshall, G. A. (2015) World of copepods database. Genus Pennella. (Copepoda), December 2015; March - April 2016. Available from: http: // www. marinespecies. org / (accessed 9 January 2017)