Glossobius hemiramphi Williams & Williams, 1985

Ravichandran, S., Vigneshwaran, P. & Rameshkumar, G., 2019, A taxonomic review of the fish parasitic isopod family Cymothoidae Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothooidea) of India, Zootaxa 4622 (1), pp. 1-99 : 27

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Glossobius hemiramphi Williams & Williams, 1985
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Glossobius hemiramphi Williams & Williams, 1985 View in CoL

Glossobius hemiramphi Williams & Williams, 1985: 147 View in CoL , figs 1–25.— Bruce & Bowman, 1989: 19, figs 13, 14.— Bakenhaster, McBride & Price, 2006: 283, fig. 5.— Martin, Bruce & Nowak, 2015b: 345–346. Aneesh, Helna, Sudha, & Anilkumar, 2017a: 3–17, figs 7–14 View FIGURE 7 View FIGURE 8 View FIGURE 9 View FIGURE 10 View FIGURE 11 View FIGURE 12 View FIGURE 13 View FIGURE 14 .

Type and type locality. The holotype ( USNM 213532), allotype ( USNM 213533) and paratypes ( USNM 213534– 213541) were collected offshore Guanica Bay, Puerto Rico from host ballyhoo Hemiramphus brasiliensis ( Linnaeus, 1758) and are deposited at The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington.

Remarks. Glossobius hemiramphi is identified by the subparallel body shape; rostrum subacute, antennula and antenna stout, lack of bulbous lobe on pereonite 1, pleotelson posterior margin emarginate and broad carinae on pereopod 7 basis.

Glossobius hemiramphi View in CoL is most similar with G. anctus View in CoL and Glossobius parexocoetii Kononenko & Mordvinova, 1988 in having a subparallel body shape, antennula and antenna stout, and similar uropod morphology. Glossobius hemiramphi View in CoL differs from G. anctus View in CoL in having broader anterior margins of coxae, posterior margins of pereonites 1–7 deeply concave, and a rounded rostrum; G. parexocoetii differs from G. hemiramphi View in CoL in the less prominent lateral lobes on pereonite 1, pereonite 4 subrectangular, pleonites 1–5 with concave posterior margins, antenna with 9 segments (compared to 8 segments), and pleotelson posterior margin rounded ( Kononenko & Mordvinova 1988).

Distribution. This species distributed from Western Atlantic to Indian Ocean. Western Atlantic: Georgia, Florida, Bermuda, Bahamas, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico; Eastern Atlantic: Dakar, Senegal, Angola, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ghana (see Bruce & Bowman 1989) and Indian Ocean: Malabar Coast, India (see Aneesh et al. 2017a).

Hosts. Known only from the family Hemiramphidae : Hemiramphus brasiliensis ( Linnaeus, 1758) (see Williams & Williams 1985), Hemiramphus bermudaensis Collette, 1962 (see Bruce & Bowman 1989) and Hemiramphus lutkei Valenciennes, 1847 (see Aneesh et al. 2017a).

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Isopoda

Family

Cymothoidae

Genus

Glossobius

Loc

Glossobius hemiramphi Williams & Williams, 1985

Ravichandran, S., Vigneshwaran, P. & Rameshkumar, G. 2019
2019
Loc

G. anctus

Bruce & Bowman 1989
1989
Loc

G. anctus

Bruce & Bowman 1989
1989
Loc

Glossobius parexocoetii

Kononenko & Mordvinova 1988
1988
Loc

G. parexocoetii

Kononenko & Mordvinova 1988
1988
Loc

Glossobius hemiramphi

Williams & Williams 1985: 147
1985
Loc

Glossobius hemiramphi

Williams & Williams 1985
1985
Loc

Glossobius hemiramphi

Williams & Williams 1985
1985
Loc

G. hemiramphi

Williams & Williams 1985
1985
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