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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
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Creator Rao,C A Padmanabha
 
Subject Stellicomes pambanensis
copepod
starfish
 
Description Not Available
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
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Date 2021-09-18T04:46:14Z
2021-09-18T04:46:14Z
1964
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Not Available
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/64407
 
Language English
 
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Publisher MBAI