Anilocra
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Ordo: Isopoda
Familia: Cymothoidae
Name
Anilocra Leach, 1818 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Anilocra Leach 1818[1]: 348, 350. Desmarest 1825[2]: 306; Edwards 1840[3]: 255; Dana 1853[4]: 747; Schioedte and Meinert 1881: 100; Gerstaecker 1882[5]: 231; Richardson 1905[6]: 25; Hale 1926[7]: 210; Schultz 1969[8]: 153; Kensley 1978[9]: 78; Kussakin 1979[10]: 281; Brusca 1981[11]: 140; Brusca and Iverson 1985[12]: 45. Bruce 1987[13]: 89; Trilles 1975[14]: 303; Trilles 1994[15]: 55; Thatcher and Blumenfeldt 2001[16]: 270.
- Canolira Leach, 1818: 350.
- Epichthyes Herklots, 1870: 122.
Diagnosis
A detailed diagnosis was given by Bruce (1987)[13].
Type species
The type species for this genus is Anilocra cuvieri Leach, 1818, junior synonym of Anilocra physodes (Linnaeus, 1758) (see Bruce 1987[13]); by subsequent designation (Kussakin 1979[10]).
Leach (1818)[1] described three species: Anilocra cuvieri, Anilocra mediterranea Leach, 1818, and Anilocra capensis Leach, 1818 without designating a type species. A. cuvieri was designated as the type species by Kussakin (1979)[10]. Both Anilocra cuvieri and A. mediterranea were synonymized with A. physodes (Trilles 1975[14]; Ellis 1981[17]).
Remarks
The body of female Anilocra is dorsally symmetrical and strongly vaulted. The posterior margins of their cephalon are smooth and straight, and the rostrum is more blunt than pointed. The rostrum folds into the area between the antennula bases. The antennula is shorter than the antenna. The posterolateral margins of the pereonites are not produced. Coxae 1–3 are short, posteriorly rounded and do not form a rounded point posteriorly, whereas coxae 4–6 are longer, less rounded and more elongate than coxae 1–3, and form a rounded point posteriorly. The pereopods gradually increase in size towards the posterior.
In the Cymothoidae, the external-attaching genera include but are not limited to Anilocra, Nerocila Leach, 1818, Renocila Miers, 1880, Creniola Bruce, 1987, and Pleopodias Richardson, 1910. Anilocra can be distinguished from Nerocila by the posterior margin of the cephalon, which is conspicuously trilobed in Nerocila, whereas the posterior margin of the cephalon of Anilocra is not tri-lobed to weakly tri-lobed. The posterolateral pereonite margins of Nerocila are more produced, elongate and pointed than that of Anilocra. In the Caribbean, some species of Anilocra and Renocila share numerous similarities, but in Anilocra pereopod 6 is shorter in length than pereopod 7, whereas in Renocila pereopods 6 and 7 are of similar length. To date the genera Creniola and Pleopodias have not been reported from the Caribbean.
Taxon Treatment
- Welicky, R; Hadfield, K; Sikkel, P; Smit, N; 2017: Molecular assessment of three species of Anilocra (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) ectoparasites from Caribbean coral reef fishes, with the description of Anilocra brillae sp. n. ZooKeys, (663): 21-43. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Leach W (1818) Cymothoidées. In: Cuvier F (Ed.) Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelle 12. Strasbourg & Paris, Levrault & Le Normant, 338–354.
- ↑ Desmarest A (1825) Considérations générales sur la classe des crustacés, et description des espèces de ces animaux, qui vivent dans la mer, sur les côtes, ou dans les eaux douces de la France. F. J. Levrault, Paris, 56 pp.
- ↑ Edwards H (1840) Histoire naturelle des Crustacés comprenent l’anatomie la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret 3: 1840.
- ↑ Dana J (1853) Crustacea, Part 11. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. 14: 689–1618.
- ↑ Gerstaecker A (1882) Sechste Ordnung. Isopoda-Asseln [Part] In Bronn H (Ed.) Klassen und Ordnung des ThierReichs, wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Funfter Band 11. Abtheilung. Gliederfiissler: Arthropoda. Crustacea. (Zweite Hiilfte: Malacostraca) 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Leiferung, 97–278.
- ↑ Richardson H (1905) A monograph on the isopods of North America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 54: 1–727. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.54.i
- ↑ Hale H (1926) Review of Australian isopods of the Cymothoid group. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 50: 201–234.
- ↑ Schultz G (1969) The marine isopod crustaceans. Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, Dubuque, 359 pp.
- ↑ Kensley B (1978) Guide to the marine isopods of southern Africa. South African Museum, Cape Town, 173 pp.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Kussakin O (1979) Marine and brackish-water isopod Crustacea. Suborder Flabellifera. Academy of Science, U.S.S. R., Leningrad, 470 pp.
- ↑ Brusca R (1981) A monograph on the Isopoda Cymothoidae (Crustacea) of the eastern Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 73: 117–199. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1981.tb01592.x
- ↑ Brusca R, Iverson E (1985) A guide to the marine isopod Crustacea of Pacific Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical 33: 1–77.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Bruce N (1987) Australian Pleopodias Richardson, 1910, and Anilocra Leach, 1818 (lsopoda: Cymothoidae), crustacean parasites of marine fishes. Records of the Australian Museum 39: 85–130. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.39.1987.166
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Trilles J (1975) Les Cymothoidae (Isopoda, Flabellifera) des collections du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris. II. Les Anilocridae Schiodte et Meinert, 1881. Genres Anilocra Leach, 1818 et Nerocila Leach, 1818.Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 3e série, 290. Zoologie 200: 303–340.
- ↑ Trilles J (1994) Catalogue mondial des Cymothoidae. Studia Marina 21: 5–288.
- ↑ Thatcher V, Blumenfeld C (2001) Anilocra montti sp. n. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) a parasite of caged salmon and trout in Chile. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 18: 269–276. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0101-81752001000500023
- ↑ Ellis J (1981) Some type specimens of Isopoda (Flabellifera) in the British Museum (Natural History), and the isopods in the Linnaean Collection. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 40: 121–128.