Nagasawa, K. & S. Shirakashi. (2022). Crescent sweetlips Plectorhinchus cinctus (Teleostei: Haemulidae), a new host for a marine fish parasite Argulus matuii (Branchiura: Argulidae). Biogeography. 24:106-108.

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10.11358/biogeo.24.106 [view]

Nagasawa, K. & S. Shirakashi

2022

24:106-108.

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An adult female of Argulus matuii Sikama, 1938 was collected from the body surface of a crescent sweetlips Plectorhinchus cinctus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) in coastal waters of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean near Minabe, Wakayama Prefecture, central Japan. This represents a new host record for A. matuii. The female is briefly described, and the species is characterized by having numerous supporting rods (n=90 and 92) in the marginal membranes of the first maxillae. Bright body coloration is known as a distinguished character to differentiate A. matuii from the other Japanese marine congeners in fresh specimens, but such coloration faded in the ethanol-preserved specimen of the species.

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