Peniculisa

Peniculisa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Copepoda
Order:	Siphonostomatoida
Family:	Pennellidae
Genus:	Peniculisa; Wilson, 1917

Peniculisa is a genus of marine parasitic copepods in the family Pennellidae.

Biology

Organisms from this genus are often found attached to the bodies and fins of fishes in the South Pacific and Indian oceans. Individual fishes have been reported to harbor hundreds of Peniculisa wilsoni parasites. Infection intensity is rarely cited for other Peniculisa species. Peniculisa parasitic infections tend to be limited to tetraodontiform and pomacentrid fishes.

Taxonomy

There are nine recognized species of Peniculisa:

Peniculisa bellwoodi Boxshall, 1989 – parasite of Pomacentrus amboinensis
Peniculisa bicaudata Shiino, 1956
Peniculisa crassa Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010 – parasite of Lactoria fornasini
Peniculisa elongata Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010 – parasite of Ostracion cubicus
Peniculisa furcata Krøyer, 1863 – parasite of Paramonacanthus frenatus (Peters, 1855), reported as syn. Paramonacanthus barnardi
Peniculisa ohirugi Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010 – parasite of Pomacentrus nagasakiensis
Peniculisa shiinoi Izawa, 1965 – parasite of Canthigaster rivulata
Peniculisa uchinah Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010 – parasite of Sufflamen fraenatum, Balistoides conspicillum, Rhinecanthus aculeatus, Sufflamen bursa, Sufflamen chrysopterum and Pervagor melanocephalus
Peniculisa wilsoni Radhakrishnan, 1977 – parasite of Diodon hystrix, Arothron immaculatus, Arothron hispidus and Diodon holocanthus

References

↑ Wilson, Charles Branch (1917). "North American parasitic copepods belonging to the Lernaeidae with a revision of the entire family". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 53 (2194): 1–150. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.53-2194.1.
1 2 Walter TC, Boxshall G, eds. (2021). "Peniculisa Wilson C.B., 1917". World of Copepods Database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Daisuke Uyeno & Kazuya Nagasawa (2010). "Four new species of Peniculisa Wilson, 1917 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Pennellidae) parasitic on coastal marine fishes in Japanese waters". Journal of Parasitology. 96 (4): 689–702. doi:10.1645/ge-2395.1. JSTOR 40802601. PMID 20496962.
1 2 A. Chandran & P. Natarajan (1994). "Heavy infection of Diodon hystrix by the copepod Peniculisa wilsoni (Siphonostomatoida, Pennellidae)". Journal of Fish Biology. 45 (1): 167–168. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.1994.tb01295.x.
1 2 A. Chandran & P. Natarajan (1991). "Record of new hosts for Peniculisa wilsoni Radhakrishnan, 1977 (Copepoda, Pennellidae)". Crustaceana. 61 (1): 107–108. doi:10.1163/156854091X00605.
↑ Geoffrey A. Boxshall (1989). "Parasitic copepods of fishes: a new genus of the Hatschekiidae from New Caledonia, and new records of the Pennellidae, Sphyriidae and Lernanthropidae from the South Atlantic and South Pacific". Systematic Parasitology. 13 (3): 201–222. doi:10.1007/BF00009746. S2CID 20948353.
↑ Brian Kensley & John R. Grindley (1973). "South African parasitic Copepoda". Annals of the South African Museum. 62: 69–130.
↑ Kunihiko Izawa (1997). "The copepodid of Peniculisa shiinoi Izawa, 1965 (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida, Pennellidae), a single free-swimming larval stage of the species". Crustaceana. 70 (8): 911–919. doi:10.1163/156854097X00537.
↑ Kunihiko Izawa (1965). "A new parasitic copepod of the genus Peniculisa Wilson from Seto, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan". Report of the Faculty of Fisheries, Prefectural University of Mie. 5: 365–374.
↑ S. Radhakrishnan (1977). "Description of a new species of Peniculisa including its immature stages". Hydrobiologia. 52 (2–3): 251–255. doi:10.1007/BF00036450. S2CID 10002464.

[Wilson_1917-1] Wilson, Charles Branch (1917). "North American parasitic copepods belonging to the Lernaeidae with a revision of the entire family". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 53 (2194): 1–150. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.53-2194.1.

[WoRMS-2] 1 2 Walter TC, Boxshall G, eds. (2021). "Peniculisa Wilson C.B., 1917". World of Copepods Database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 25 August 2021.

[Uyeno2010-3] 1 2 3 4 5 6 Daisuke Uyeno & Kazuya Nagasawa (2010). "Four new species of Peniculisa Wilson, 1917 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Pennellidae) parasitic on coastal marine fishes in Japanese waters". Journal of Parasitology. 96 (4): 689–702. doi:10.1645/ge-2395.1. JSTOR 40802601. PMID 20496962.

[Chandran1994-4] 1 2 A. Chandran & P. Natarajan (1994). "Heavy infection of Diodon hystrix by the copepod Peniculisa wilsoni (Siphonostomatoida, Pennellidae)". Journal of Fish Biology. 45 (1): 167–168. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.1994.tb01295.x.

[Chandran1991-5] 1 2 A. Chandran & P. Natarajan (1991). "Record of new hosts for Peniculisa wilsoni Radhakrishnan, 1977 (Copepoda, Pennellidae)". Crustaceana. 61 (1): 107–108. doi:10.1163/156854091X00605.

[Boxshall1989-6] Geoffrey A. Boxshall (1989). "Parasitic copepods of fishes: a new genus of the Hatschekiidae from New Caledonia, and new records of the Pennellidae, Sphyriidae and Lernanthropidae from the South Atlantic and South Pacific". Systematic Parasitology. 13 (3): 201–222. doi:10.1007/BF00009746. S2CID 20948353.

[7] Brian Kensley & John R. Grindley (1973). "South African parasitic Copepoda". Annals of the South African Museum. 62: 69–130.

[Izawa1997-8] Kunihiko Izawa (1997). "The copepodid of Peniculisa shiinoi Izawa, 1965 (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida, Pennellidae), a single free-swimming larval stage of the species". Crustaceana. 70 (8): 911–919. doi:10.1163/156854097X00537.

[9] Kunihiko Izawa (1965). "A new parasitic copepod of the genus Peniculisa Wilson from Seto, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan". Report of the Faculty of Fisheries, Prefectural University of Mie. 5: 365–374.

[10] S. Radhakrishnan (1977). "Description of a new species of Peniculisa including its immature stages". Hydrobiologia. 52 (2–3): 251–255. doi:10.1007/BF00036450. S2CID 10002464.