New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

---

Mecaderochondria pilgrimi gen. et spec, nov., a chondracanthid copepod parasitic on a New Zealand marine fish, Kathetostoma giganteum Haast (Teleostei: Uranoscopidae)

JU-SHEY HO

MASAHIRO DOJIRI

Institute of Parasitology Department of Biology California State University Long Beach, California, 90840 U.S.A.

Abstract A new form of parasitic copepod, Mecaderochondria pilgrimi gen. et spec, nov., recovered from the oral cavity of an uranoscopid fish, Kathetostoma giganteum, at Kaikoura, New Zealand, is described. The female of the new genus is characterised by a long neck consisting of the first and second pedigers, and two pairs of modified but uninflated legs with much reduced proto-pods. The pygmy male has an atrophied antennal tip on the second antenna.

Keywords Copepoda; Chondracanthidae; Mecaderochondria pilgrimi; taxonomy; Kathetostoma giganteum; New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1987, Vol. 21: 615-620 0028-8330/87/2104-0615$2.5O/O © Crown copyright 1987 Received 4 May 1987; accepted 18 June 1987

PDF file of entire paper: medium quality (412K); (scanned from paper original: notes about this process)

---

This year's abstracts | Journal home page | All abstracts | Publishing home page