Redescription of Triceracolax pagri Izawa, 2021 (Copepoda, Cyclopoida, Bomolochidae), with descriptions of copepodids IV and III of the species

Crustaceana ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (10) ◽  
pp. 1283-1291
Author(s):  
Kunihiko Izawa

Abstract Triceracolax pagri Izawa, 2021 is redescribed on the basis of specimens of both sexes recovered from the bucco-branchial cavity of the original host, Pagrus major (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843). Both sexes of copepodid IV and the male copepodid III, collected together with the adults, are described for the first time, and sexually dimorphic features in late copepodid stages are discussed.

Crustaceana ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 1377-1394
Author(s):  
Kunihiko Izawa

Abstract Nothobomolochus triceros (Bassett-Smith, 1898), based on specimens recovered from the original host Pampus argenteus (Euphrasen, 1788) in Japan, are redescribed, and the male, both sexes of copepodids V and IV, and sex undetermined copepodids III and II of the species are described for the first time. The maxilliped is sexually dimorphic only in the adult in Bomolochidae, on the other hand, the rostral plate, antennule, and legs 1, 4, and 5 are sexually dimorphic in Nothobomolochus throughout the adult and copepodids V-IV. Sex is as yet undetermined in copepodids III and II in the genus.


Crustaceana ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (8) ◽  
pp. 973-980
Author(s):  
Kunihiko Izawa

Abstract As in the original description of Naricolax sphyraenae Izawa, 2020, copepodid IV female of the species was described based on a wrong judgement of the sex, the species is redescribed and both sexes of copepodid IV of the species are correctively described, while additionally copepodid V male of the species is described for the first time, based on specimens newly collected from the original host, Sphyraena pinguis Günther, 1874 (Pisces, Sphyraenidae) from Japan.


Crustaceana ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (7) ◽  
pp. 845-853
Author(s):  
Kunihiko Izawa

Abstract Megacolax gen. nov. (Copepoda, Cyclopoida, Bomolochidae) is established to accommodate Naricolax insolitus Ho & Lin, 2003, and next Megacolax insolitus (Ho & Lin, 2003) emended is redescribed based on specimens of both sexes recovered from the nasal cavity of the original host, Pampus argenteus (Euphrasen, 1788) (Pisces, Stromateidae) in Japan. The male is described for the first time for the species.


Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5051 (1) ◽  
pp. 319-345
Author(s):  
TOMISLAV KARANOVIC

Marine cyclopoids, and especially cyclopinids, are poorly studied because their diversity is highest in marginal habitats, such as intertidal interstitial and anchialine caves, or in highly inaccessible abyssal and hadal depths. Two new cyclopinids are described here, both from two different sandy beaches in Korea. Among four species currently recognized in the genus, Heterocyclopina koreaensis sp. nov. is most closely related to H. vietnamensis Pleşa, 1969 from similar habitats in Vietnam. Koreacyclopina wellsi gen. et sp. nov. shares its sexually dimorphic third exopodal segment of the second leg with the Antarctic genus Pseudocyclopina Lang, 1946, but differs from all six known species by numerous features, some of which are observed for the first time within cyclopinids. Both Korean species belong to the family Hemicyclopinidae, but the monophyly of this group has not yet been demonstrated.  


Author(s):  
George D. Jackson ◽  
Steve O'Shea

The male scaled squid Lepidoteuthis grimaldii hereby reported for the first time, is equipped with a pair of grossly enlarged sabre-like hooks. These unique hooks, found only on males, are without parallel amongst cephalopods. As a sexually dimorphic character, they are more likely to be involved in reproduction than predation.


Crustaceana ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-465
Author(s):  
Kunihiko Izawa

Abstract Orbitacolax bispinus sp. nov., Orbitacolax leptoscari (Yamaguti, 1953), Paraorbitacolax sphyraenae Izawa, 2021, and one male specimen of a Bomolochidae sp. are (re)described. The male and copepodid V female of O. leptoscari, and the male and copepodid V male of P. sphyraenae are described for the first time for the respective species. A description performed in Izawa (2020, 2021) that the maxilliped of the female bears a dorsal process in Orbitacolax and Paraorbitacolax spp., was wrong and is herein corrected.


Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1715 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
RONALD E. WATSON

Stiphodon carisa, n. sp., is described based on material collected in the southernmost watershed in Lampung Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. Stiphodon carisa, n. sp., differs from all other congeners by a combination of characteristics that include having 9 second-dorsal fin rays; 15 pectoral-fin rays; 41–59 premaxillary teeth; predorsal scales sexually dimorphic in number, male with 5–11 and female with 8–16; 25–35 lateral scales; slightly embedded cycloid scales present on belly; male with a triangular-shaped first-dorsal fin with third and/or fourth spines longest but not filamentous and a patch of white fatty tissue posterior to pectoral-fin base; female usually with 5 (4–5) dusky to blackish blotches or spots along lateral midline from second-dorsal fin with usually 4 (3–4) posterior-most spots positioned close together on caudal peduncle, dusky band extending from anterior to eye to upper hypural base usually indistinct posterior to pectoral-fin base, with or without a dusky or black gular blotch; in some females xanthism exists which fades in preservation and in life yellow with orange to bright red markings. Stiphodon semoni is a species common in hill streams of eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea and is reported here for the first time from streams entering the Indian Ocean in Lampung Province, Sumatra, Indonesia.


Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2559 (1) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATHIAS JASCHHOF ◽  
STEPHAN M. BLANK ◽  
Uwe Kallweit

The adult morphology of male Paramorganiella adventurosa Tonnoir is redescribed on the basis of new material from Tasmania. Details of the male genitalia are described and figured for the first time. The female is described for the first time. Special attention is paid to the clypeus and maxillary palpus, both sexually dimorphic, of which the anatomy is extensively illustrated and discussed with respect to possible function and in the context of palpal modifications found in other Mycetophilidae. Anatomy suggests the palpi of males function as a mechanical tool rather than a probing organ, which is unique among Mycetophilidae and Diptera. Various functional hypotheses are discussed in the context of sexual selection.


Crustaceana ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (8) ◽  
pp. 891-929
Author(s):  
Kunihiko Izawa

Abstract Three new and five known species of Bomolochidae Claus, 1875, parasitic on Japanese actinopterygian fishes, are (re)described. They are Bomolochus bellones Burmeister, 1835, B. decapteri Yamaguti, 1936, B. hoi sp. nov., Naricolax sphyraenae sp. nov., Nothobomolochus cypseluri (Yamaguti, 1953), Orbitacolax brevispinus Moon, Choi & Venmathi Maran, 2018, O. scombropsi sp. nov., and O. unguifer Kim & Moon, 2013. The copepodid IV female of B. bellones, the male and copepodid IV female of Na. sphyraenae, the male and copepodid IV and V female of No. cypseluri and O. unguifer are herein described. Sexual dimorphism is found in the antennule, maxilliped, and legs in the family.


Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2325 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCELO DUARTE ◽  
ROBERT K. ROBBINS

Details of egg, larval, and pupal morphology are described and illustrated for Calycopis bellera (Hewitson) and C. janeirica (Felder), with a special emphasis on larval chaetotaxy. Wild-caught Calycopis females laid eggs on dead leaves in the laboratory, and the caterpillars successfully completed development on an artificial agar diet to which no leaves were added. Males and females of the sexually dimorphic C. bellera had been previously placed in different genera or different species groups. Calycopis janeirica had been chronically misidentified (and misspelled C. jeneirica). Males and females of this species appear to be correctly associated for the first time. Whereas C. bellera has five larval instars—as reported previously for C. caulonia—C. janeirica has four. Morphological characters of the immatures of C. bellera and C. janeirica are summarized in a table and compared with those of other reared Calycopis species.


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