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Stellicomes pambanensis, a new cyclopoid copepod parasitic on starfish

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Title Stellicomes pambanensis, a new cyclopoid copepod
parasitic on starfish
 
Creator Rao, C A Padmanabha
 
Subject Fish Diseases
Copepods
 
Description The siphonostomatous family Stellicomitidae of Humes and Cressey, 1958, includes
three genera, namely, SteUicomes Humes and Cressey, Onycopygus H. & C, and
Asterocomes Padmanabharao, 1962. Under the genus SteUicomes two species, S.
tumidulus and 5. guineensis are so far known.
All stellicomitids are parasitic on asteroids and are characterised by the presence
of a highly reduced siphon. Besides it is interesting to note that there is a tendency
in most of them to show reduction or absence of endopodites of the natatory legs.
The form described below agrees with SteUicomes in most of its generic characters
and at the same time differs from the species described earlier in the presence of the
second leg with highly reduced one-jointed endopodite, third and fourth le^ without
endopodites and the sixth leg as a single seta in male. These characters being of
significant taxonomic value, the present form is treated as a new species under the
genus SteUicome
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 1964
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1000/1/Article_08.pdf
Rao, C A Padmanabha (1964) Stellicomes pambanensis, a new cyclopoid copepod parasitic on starfish. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 6 (1). pp. 89-93.