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https://hdl.handle.net/2115/91431

A new Sphaeronella species (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Nicothoidae) parasitic on Euphilomedes sp. (Ostracoda: Myodocopa: Philomedidae) from Hokkaido, Japan, with an 18S molecular phylogeny

英語

2023-04

Springer

Systematic Parasitology

100(２)

121-131

With about 80 species, Sphaeronella is the most species-rich genus in the copepod family Nicothoidae. To date, 20 named Sphaeronella species have been reported as ectoparasites on ostracod crustaceans. Here we describe Sphaeronella uyenoi sp. nov. parasitic on the philomedid ostracod Euphilomedes sp. collected from Akkeshi Bay, Hokkaido, Japan, northwestern Pacific. Sphaeronella uyenoi most closely resembles S. monothrix (Bowman & Kornicker, 1967), parasitic on the cylindroleberidid Parasterope pollex Kornicker in Bowman & Kornicker in the northwestern Atlantic, but differs from the latter in having (1) the submedian skeleton containing paired, strongly chitinized, Λ-shaped areas and paired wide oblong holes bearing a strongly chitinized fringe posteriorly, and (2) maxillipedal segment 3 with antero-subdistal serration. We determined partial sequences for the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and 18S rRNA (18S) genes for S. uyenoi and constructed an 18S-based phylogenetic tree of copepods. In our tree, Nicothoidae was not monophyletic, and S. uyenoi was the sister taxon to Cancerilla sp. in Cancerillidae (ectoparasites on brittle stars).

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