New records of parasitic copepods (Crustacea, Copepoda) from marine fishes in the Argentinean Sea

CANTATORE DELFINA MARIA; BRAICOVICH PAOLA; ALARCOS ANA JULIA; ROSSIN M. ALEJANDRA; LANFRANCHI ANA LAURA; VALES DAMIÁN GUSTAVO; JUAN T. TIMI

ACTA PARASITOLOGICA

VERSITA

Año: 2012 p. 83 - 89

1230-2821

Increasing knowledge of the biodiversity of parasitic copepods in the Argentinean Sea will provide a baseline against whichchanges in the distribution of marine biota can be detected. We provide new information on the distribution of 13 known speciesof parasitic copepods gathered from 11 species of marine fishes from Argentinean Sea, including 7 new host records and 9 newlocality records. These species are: Bomolochus globiceps (Vervoort et Ramírez, 1968) and Nothobomolochus cresseyi Timi etSardella, 1997 (Bomolochidae Sumpf, 1871); Brasilochondria riograndensis Thatcher et Pereira, 2004 (ChondracanthidaeMilne Edwards, 1840); Taeniacanthus lagocephali Pearse, 1952 (Taeniacanthidae Wilson, 1911); Caligus rogercresseyi Boxshallet Bravo, 2000 and Metacaligus uruguayensis (Thomsen, 1949) (Caligidae Burmeister, 1835); Hatschekia conifera Yamaguti,1939 (Hatschekiidae Kabata, 1979); Clavellotis pagri (Krøyer, 1863), Clavella adunca (Strøm, 1762), Clavella bowmani Kabata,1963 and Parabrachiella amphipacifica Ho, 1982 (Lernaeopodidae Milne Edwards, 1840), and Lernanthropus leidyiWilson, 1922 and Lernanthropus caudatus Wilson, 1922 (Lernanthropidae Kabata, 1979). A list of host species lacking parasiticcopepods, for which large samples were investigated by the authors, is also provided in order to compare in future surveys