Anilocra montti sp. n. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) a parasite of caged salmon and trout in Chile

Thatcher, Vernon E.; Blumenfeldt, Carlos Lobos

doi:10.1590/s0101-81752001000500023

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“…Anilocra Leach, 1818 : 348, 350; Desmarest (1825) : 306; Milne-Edwards (1840) : 255; Dana (1853) : 747; Schioedte and Meinert, (1881) : 100; Gerstaecker (1882) : 231; Richardson (1905) : 25; Hale (1926) : 210; Schultz (1969) : 153; Kensley (1978) : 78; Kussakin (1979) : 281; Brusca (1981) : 140; Brusca and Iverson (1985) : 45. Bruce, (1987) : 89; Trilles (1975) : 303; Trilles (1994) : 55; Thatcher and Blumenfeldt, (2001) : 270; Welicky et al (2017) : 24; Aneesh et al, (2019) : 444.…”

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Morphological description and molecular characterisation of a new species of Anilocra Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from India

Aneesh

Hadfield

Smit

et al. 2021

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife

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A fish parasitic isopod recently reported from India as Anilocra leptosoma Bleeker, 1857, was re-examined and morphologically compared to five closely related species: A. capensis Leach, 1818, A. clupei Williams and Bunkley-Williams, 1986, A. leptosoma Bleeker, 1857, A. paulsikkeli Welicky and Smit, 2019 and A. pilchardi Bariche and Trilles, 2006. This species was sequenced and compared to other known Anilocra species based on mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene fragments . Both morphological and molecular data corroborate that the Anilocra species parasitising the clupeid fish Tenualosa toli (Valenciennes, 1847) from India should be recognised as a new species, and we describe Anilocra grandmaae n. sp. based on the holotype and paratype females. The key characters of A. grandmaae n. sp. include the body being less than 4.0 times as long as wide; antennula article 3 anterodistal margin expanded, 1.2–1.4 times as wide as long; pleonite 1 concealed by pereonite 7 and lateral margin posteriorly produced; pereopods 1–4 with three nodules on dactylus; endopod of pleopods 3–5 with a proximomedial lobe and folding; and pleotelson ovate, with lateral margins converging smoothly to a caudomedial point.

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Morphological description and molecular characterisation of a new species of Anilocra Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from India

Aneesh

Hadfield

Smit

et al. 2021

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife

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“…Nearly half of the species of Anilocra accepted today were described in the 1980s, with many originating from the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean [8, 21]. Since 2001, just four new species have been described based on material from the Caribbean [24], Chile [25], Lebanon [26] and the Gulf of Mexico [27]. In 2017, using morphological and molecular data, Anilocra brillae [24] from the Caribbean was identified and described based on specimens that were originally thought to be Anilocra haemuli [8].…”

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Redescription and molecular characterisation of the fish ectoparasite Anilocra capensis Leach, 1818 (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), with description of six new species of Anilocra Leach, 1818 from Africa

Welicky

Smit

2019

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Background Anilocra capensis Leach, 1818 is the only named species of Anilocra Leach, 1818 from South Africa. Anilocra is a large genus (> 40 species) with high levels of diversity reported from the Caribbean and Indo-West Pacific. Considering it is highly unlikely that all records of Anilocra from South Africa can be of a single species, the aim of this study was to better understand the diversity of Anilocra from this region and continent. Methods To redescribe A. capensis , the syntypes of A. capensis and specimens recorded as A. capensis from Africa were borrowed from the Natural History Museum, London, UK, and The iZiko South African Museum, Cape Town. Newly collected fresh samples of A. capensis were collected from off Cape Town, South Africa. Morphological redescriptions of the syntypes, and other museum and fresh material were conducted. Fresh samples were used to characterise molecularly A. capensis using the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 gene ( cox 1). Results Morphological analyses demonstrated that apart from A. capensis there are six Anilocra species new to science from Africa: Anilocra ianhudsoni n. sp., Anilocra bunkleywilliamsae n. sp., Anilocra paulsikkeli n. sp., Anilocra jovanasi n. sp., Anilocra angeladaviesae n. sp. and Anilocra hadfieldae n. sp. Of the species under study, specimens of A. capensis appear to demonstrate the most individual variation, which occurs in pleonite width, pleotelson form and uropod length. We determined that African species of Anilocra can be primarily differentiated by the proportional shape and size of the full body in dorsal view and pereonites 1, 6 and 7. Other defining morphological traits include proportional shape and size of the pereopods, and the antenna and antennula peduncles. Lastly, the molecular characterisation of A. capensis is provided and the interspecific divergence with Mediterranean species is smaller than that with Caribbean species. Conclusions The results of this study provide a detailed redescription of A. capensis and the first molecular barcode for this organism. Six new species of Anilocra from Africa are described, establishing that the diversity of Anilocra in this region is greater than previously known. With this new understanding of specie...

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“…Desmarest 1825: 306; Edwards 1840: 255; Dana 1853: 747; Schioedte and Meinert 1881: 100; Gerstaecker 1882: 231; Richardson 1905: 25; Hale 1926: 210; Schultz 1969: 153; Kensley 1978: 78; Kussakin 1979: 281; Brusca 1981: 140; Brusca and Iverson 1985: 45. Bruce 1987: 89; Trilles 1975: 303; Trilles 1994: 55; Thatcher and Blumenfeldt 2001: 270.…”

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Molecular assessment of three species of Anilocra (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) ectoparasites from Caribbean coral reef fishes, with the description of Anilocra brillae sp. n.

Welicky¹,

Hadfield²,

Sikkel³

et al. 2017

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A morphological review and molecular characterization of Anilocra haemuli Bunkley Williams & Williams, 1981, were completed using specimens collected from Haemulon flavolineatum Desmarest, 1823 (French grunt) and Epinephelus guttatus Linnaeus, 1758 (red hind). Molecular and morphological data suggest that the isopods parasitizing H. flavolineatum and E. guttatus are different species. The specimens collected from E. guttatus are recognized as a new species, Anilocra brillae sp. n. Differences between Anilocra brillae sp. n. and A. haemuli include but are not limited to the pleonites 1–3 of A. brillae sp. n. being wider than 4–5 and 4–5 subequal, whereas the pleonites 1–2 of A. haemuli are wider than 3–5, and 3–5 are subequal. The seventh pereopod of A. brillae sp. n. is proportionally larger, has more robust setae, and the setae are distributed more extensively over the articles when compared to A. haemuli. Additionally, this study provides the first genetic characterization of three Anilocra spp. from the Caribbean, and is based on mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit gene (COI) for A. haemuli from H. flavolineatum, A. brillae sp. n. from E. guttatus, and A. chromis Bunkley Williams & Williams, 1981 from Chromis multilineata Guichenot, 1853.

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Anilocra montti sp. n. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) a parasite of caged salmon and trout in Chile

Cited by 14 publications

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Morphological description and molecular characterisation of a new species of Anilocra Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from India

Morphological description and molecular characterisation of a new species of Anilocra Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from India

Redescription and molecular characterisation of the fish ectoparasite Anilocra capensis Leach, 1818 (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), with description of six new species of Anilocra Leach, 1818 from Africa

Molecular assessment of three species of Anilocra (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) ectoparasites from Caribbean coral reef fishes, with the description of Anilocra brillae sp. n.

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