PUMILIOPSIS SPATHEPEDES SP. NOV., A CYCLOPOID COPEPOD PARASITIC ON THE EYE OF SARDINELLA SIRM


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Authors

  • P Sam Bennet Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute Cenntre, Tuticorin

Abstract

The female of a new species of copepod parasit;, Pumiliapsis spathepedes
is described from the eye of the sardine, Sardinella sirm from Tut'corin, South East
Coast of India. It was been compared with the only other known species in this
genus namely P. sardinellae. The species can easily be distingu'shed from all the
other bomolochids hitherto known by the enormously developed fifth leg

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Author Biography

  • P Sam Bennet, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute Cenntre, Tuticorin
    Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute Cenntre, Tuticorin

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Vol. 27 No. 1 & 2 (1980)

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How to Cite

Bennet, P. S. (2011). PUMILIOPSIS SPATHEPEDES SP. NOV., A CYCLOPOID COPEPOD PARASITIC ON THE EYE OF SARDINELLA SIRM. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 27(1 & 2), 273-278. https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJF/article/view/12018