Lepeophtheirus elegans

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Lepeophtheirus elegans
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Adult female:


A, habitus, dorsal;
B, antennule;
C, antenna;
D, mandible;
E, postantennary process;
F, maxillule;
G, maxilla;
H, maxilliped;
I, abdomen, ventral.
Scale bars: A = 0.4 mm; B–I = 0.1 mm.

Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Hexanauplia
Subclass: Copepoda
Order: Siphonostomatoida
Family: Caligidae
Genus: Lepeophtheirus
Species:
L. elegans
Binomial name
Lepeophtheirus elegans
Gusev, 1951[1]

Lepeophtheirus elegans is a species of sea lice.

Known fish hosts are the stichaeids Herzenstein and (Steindachner) from Russia, Japan and Korea, the pholid (Kner), the cottid Myoxocephalus brandtii (Steindachner), both from Russian waters and the sebastid Sebastes schlegelii Hilgendorf, the Korean rockfish.[2]

First chalimus:
A, leg 3;
B, leg 3 (other specimen);
C, leg 4;
D, caudal ramus;
E, habitus of putative female, dorsal.
Scale bars: A–D = 0.025 mm; E = 0.2 mm.

References[]

  1. ^ Parasitic Copepoda of some marine fishes. AV Gusev, Parazitologicheski Sbornik, 1951
  2. ^ Venmathi Maran, Balu Alagar; Moon, Seong Yong; Ohtsuka, Susumu; Oh, Sung-Yong; Soh, Ho Young; Myoung, Jung-Goo; Iglikowska, Anna; Boxshall, Geoffrey Allan (2013). "The caligid life cycle: new evidence from Lepeophtheirus elegans reconciles the cycles of Caligus and Lepeophtheirus (Copepoda: Caligidae)". Parasite. 20: 15. doi:10.1051/parasite/2013015. PMC 3718518. open access

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