species: Peniculisa bellwoodi in Lizard Island area: all known taxa (Lizard Island Field Guide)
Lizard Island area: all known taxa > Animalia > Arthropoda > Crustacea > Hexanauplia > Copepoda > Siphonostomatoida > Pennellidae > Peniculisa > Peniculisa bellwoodi
Peniculisa bellwoodi

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Hexanauplia
Order Siphonostomatoida
Family Pennellidae
Genus Peniculisa
Species Peniculisa bellwoodi

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Lizard Island area: all known taxa

Distinguishing features

Distinguishing features still need to be specified.

Size

  • Size data has not been obtained.

Synonyms

Comments

Lizard Island is the type locality; parasitic on Pomacentrus amboinensis (Boxshall, 1989).

by Anne Hoggett

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References

  • Boxshall, G.A. (1989). Parasitic copepods of fishes : a new genus of the Hatschekiidae from New Caledonia, and new records of the Pennellidae, Sphyriidae and Lernanthropidae from the South Atlantic and South Pacific, Systematic Parasitology, 13: 201-222. LIRS catalog number LIRS 90247.
  • Sun, D., S.P. Blomberg, T.H. Cribb, M.I. McCormick and A.S. Grutter (2012). The effects of parasites on the early life stages of a damselfish. Coral Reefs, 31: 1065-1075. LIRS catalog number 1567.