Pennellidae
Family of crustaceans
Complete life cycle of a pennellid, Peniculus minuticaudae Shiino, 1956 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida), infecting cultured threadsail filefish, Stephanolepis cirrhifer [ 2]
Pennellidae is a family of parasitic copepods .[ 1] [ 3] When anchored on a host, they have a portion of the body on the outside of the host, whereas the remaining anterior part of the parasite is hidden inside tissues of the host.[ 3]
Genera
There are 24 genera:[ 1]
Allotrifur Yamaguti , 1963
Cardiodectes C. B. Wilson, 1917
Creopelates Shiino, 1958
Exopenna Boxshall, 1986
Haemobaphes Steenstrup & Lutken, 1861
Impexus Kabata, 1972
Lernaeenicus C. B. Wilson, 1932
Lernaeocera Blainville, 1822
Lernaeolophus Heller, 1865
Metapeniculus Castro-Romero & Baeza-Kurok, 1985
Nagasawanus Uyeno, 2015
Ophiolernaea Shiino, 1958
Parinia Kazachenko & Avdeev, 1977
Peniculisa C. B. Wilson, 1917
Peniculus von Nordmann, 1832
Pennella Oken, 1816
Peroderma Heller, 1865
Phrixocephalus C. B. Wilson, 1908
Propeniculus Castro Romero, 2014
Protosarcotretes Ohtsuka, Lindsay & Izawa, 2018 [ 4]
Pseudopeniculus Castro Romero, 2014
Sarcotretes Jungersen, 1911
Serpentisaccus Blasiola, 1979
Trifur C. B. Wilson, 1917
References
^ a b c Walter TC, Boxshall G, eds. (2021). "Pennellidae Burmeister, 1835" . World of Copepods database . World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 26 August 2021 .
^ Ismail, Norshida; Ohtsuka, Susumu; Venmathi Maran, Balu Alagar; Tasumi, Satoshi; Zaleha, Kassim; Yamashita, Hirofumi (2013). "Complete life cycle of a pennellid Peniculus minuticaudae Shiino, 1956 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) infecting cultured threadsail filefish, Stephanolepis cirrhifer " . Parasite . 20 : 42. doi :10.1051/parasite/2013041 . PMC 3813946 . PMID 24165196 .
^ a b Hogans, W. E. (2017). "Cardiodectes medusaeus (Copepoda: Pennellidae) a synonym of Cardiodectes bellottii , a parasite of mid-water fishes in the North Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . 130 (1): 250–255. doi :10.2988/17-00019 . S2CID 89975409 .
^ Ohtsuka, Susumu; Lindsay, Dhugal J.; Izawa, Kunihiko (2018). "A new genus and species of the family Pennellidae (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) infecting the Pacific viperfish Chauliodus macouni " . Parasite . 25 : 6. doi :10.1051/parasite/2018003 . PMC 5806539 . PMID 29424341 .