Protosarcotretes

Protosarcotretes
	Protosarcotretes nishikawai
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Hexanauplia
Subclass:	Copepoda
Order:	Siphonostomatoida
Family:	Pennellidae
Genus:	Protosarcotretes; Ohtsuka, Lindsay & Izawa, 2018

Protosarcotretes is a genus of marine copepods in the family Pennellidae. Its type-species is .^[1] This genus exhibits the most plesiomorphic states in the first to fourth legs of pennellids, and is differentiated from two closely related pennellid genera and by the morphology of the oral appendages.

Species[]

According to Ohtsuka, Lindsay & Izawa (2018),^[1] three species are included in the genus:

Ohtsuka, Lindsay & Izawa, 2018 This species is a parasite of the Pacific viperfish, Chauliodus macouni.
(Lewis, 1959) Ohtsuka, Lindsay & Izawa, 2018
(Leigh-Sharpe, 1934) Ohtsuka, Lindsay & Izawa, 2018

Protosarcotretes nishikawai
Protosarcotretes nishikawai
Protosarcotretes nishikawai

References[]

^ ^a ^b Ohtsuka, Susumu; Lindsay, Dhugal J.; Izawa, Kunihiko (2018). "A new genus and species of the family Pennellidae (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) infecting the Pacific viperfish Chauliodus macouni". Parasite. 25: 6. doi:10.1051/parasite/2018003. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 5806539.

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[OhtsukaLindsay2018-1] Ohtsuka, Susumu; Lindsay, Dhugal J.; Izawa, Kunihiko (2018). "A new genus and species of the family Pennellidae (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) infecting the Pacific viperfish Chauliodus macouni". Parasite. 25: 6. doi:10.1051/parasite/2018003. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 5806539.

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