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Two new species of Copepoda (Crustacea) parasitic on marine fishes

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Two new species of parasitic Copepoda (Crustacea) are described and illustrated. Paeon australis n. sp. (Sphyriidae) is the first member of its genus discovered in Australian waters. It is parasitic on Rhinobates batillum, an elasmobranch fish. The other species, Lateracanthus curtus n. sp., is a parasite of an unspecified Macrourus, a deep-water teleost, taken in the northwestern Atlantic. The systematics of the genus Lateracanthus are discussed. Lateracanthus macrurus is relegated to the status of a species inquirenda.

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  1. Biological Sciences Branch, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Pacific Biological Station, V9R 5K6, Nanaimo, BC, Canada

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Kabata, Z. Two new species of Copepoda (Crustacea) parasitic on marine fishes. Syst Parasitol 26, 233–239 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00009731

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