Copepods (Crustacea, Copepoda, Cyclopoida) Associated with Marine Invertebrates from Thailand

Abstract

Fifteen species of poecilostome copepods associated with marine invertebrates, including ten new species, are recorded from intertidal zone in Thailand. New species are Hemicyclops cornutus n. sp. and Hemicyclops parapiculus n. sp. in the family Clausidiidae, Presynaptiphilus trifurcatus n. sp. in the Synaptiphilidae, Anchimolgus kantariensis n. sp. and Anchimolgus palmatus n. sp. in the Anchimolgidae, Kelleria vasfera n. sp. in the Kelleridae, Pseudanthessius stenosus n. sp. and Pseudanthessius phuketensis n. sp. in the Pseudanthessiidae, Doricidola pattayensis n. sp., and Lambanetes mollis n. sp. in the Rhynchomolgidae. Five species are new records of Thailand: Critomolgus gemmatus (Humes, 1964), Doridicola cuspis (Humes, 1964), Doridicola inaequalis (Humes and Ho, 1966), Indomolgus brevisetosus (Humes and Ho, 1966), and Lambanetes stichodactylae Humes, 1982. The female of Lambanetes stichodectylae is described for the first time in the world.

Two New Species of Clausidiidae (Copepoda, Poecilostomatoida) from Korea

“…Ten species of copepods have been recorded as associates of T. musica through five records (Humes and Ho, 1967;Humes, 1995;Kim, 2004Kim, , 2009Kim, , 2010. However, none of these copepod species has been repeatedly discovered from T. musica, which may suggest that these copepods generally are not obligatory associates of T. muscia, but occurred sporadically on that coral as suspected by Humes and Ho (1967) or are secondary associates of other invertebrates associated with the coral.…”

A review of Caribbean Copepoda associated with reef-dwelling cnidarians, echinoderms and sponges

“…Very few are reports have been published about the Asterocheridae living and usually abundant on sponges (Stock & Kleeton, 1964;Stock, 1967;Boxshall & Huys, 1994;Kim, 2010;Varela et al, 2005bVarela et al, , 2007aVarela et al, , b, 2008Varela, 2010aVarela, , b, 2012. Twelve families of copepods have been reported on diverse Caribbean echinoderms (Edwards, 1891;Emson & Mladenov, 1987;Emson et al, 1985;Hendler & Kim, 2010;Humes & Hendler, 1972, 1999Humes & Ho, 1970, 1971Humes & Stock, 1973;Humes, 1969aHumes, , 1998Humes, , 2000Kim, 2009Kim, , 2010Stock & Gooding, 1986;Stock & Humes, 1995;Stock et al, 1962Stock et al, , 1963aStock, 1968;Varela et al, 2003Varela et al, , 2005bVarela et al, , 2008Varela, 2010aVarela, , 2011a. Most of these studies on Caribbean invertebrateassociated copepods are from the last century and only 19 of them have been published since 2000 (Humes, 2000;Varela et al, 2003Varela et al, , 2005aVarela et al, , b, 2007aVarela et al, , b, 2008Varela & Lalana, 2007;…”

Six new species of Copepoda (Clausiidae, Pseudanthessiidae, Polyankyliidae) associated with polychaetes from Korea

“…The second feature allows the new species to be readily identified without dissection, because no similar process on the second pedigerous somite has been reported in Pseudanthessius. Within the genus an example of the first feature is known in P. asper Kim, 2009 which was described as an associate of a sponge in Madagascar (Kim, 2009). Otherwise, P. asper, which has a peculiar body form, is not related to P. excertus n. sp.…”