Peniculisa
Genus of crustaceans
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Peniculisa is a genus of marine parasitic copepods in the family Pennellidae.[2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Copepoda |
| Order: | Siphonostomatoida |
| Family: | Pennellidae |
| Genus: | Peniculisa Wilson, 1917[1] |
Biology
Organisms from this genus are often found attached to the bodies and fins of fishes in the South Pacific and Indian oceans.[3][4] Individual fishes have been reported to harbor hundreds of Peniculisa wilsoni parasites.[4][5] Infection intensity is rarely cited for other Peniculisa species. Peniculisa parasitic infections tend to be limited to tetraodontiform and pomacentrid fishes.[3]
Taxonomy
There are nine recognized species of Peniculisa:[2]
- Peniculisa bellwoodi Boxshall, 1989 – parasite of Pomacentrus amboinensis[6]
- Peniculisa bicaudata Shiino, 1956
- Peniculisa crassa Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010 – parasite of Lactoria fornasini[3]
- Peniculisa elongata Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010 – parasite of Ostracion cubicus[3]
- Peniculisa furcata Krøyer, 1863 – parasite of Paramonacanthus frenatus (Peters, 1855), reported as syn. Paramonacanthus barnardi[7]
- Peniculisa ohirugi Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010 – parasite of Pomacentrus nagasakiensis[3]
- Peniculisa shiinoi Izawa, 1965 – parasite of Canthigaster rivulata[8][9]
- Peniculisa uchinah Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010 – parasite of Sufflamen fraenatum, Balistoides conspicillum, Rhinecanthus aculeatus, Sufflamen bursa, Sufflamen chrysopterum and Pervagor melanocephalus[3]
- Peniculisa wilsoni Radhakrishnan, 1977 – parasite of Diodon hystrix,[10] Arothron immaculatus, Arothron hispidus and Diodon holocanthus[5]