Parasitic Copepoda of Australian Fishes, XII. Family Lernanthropidae

A Single Cohort Time Delay Model of the Life-cycle of the Salmon Louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis on Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar.

“…This study investigates whether it is possible to describe basic, tank-based infections, carried out under tightly controlled conditions, using a simple math ematical model and whether such models might provide a basis for more complex models that could be employed to optimise treatment timing in a biologically realistic system. Any model of salmon louse population dynamics must take into account the 10 life stages (nauplius I & II, copepodid, chalimus I-IV, pre-adults I & II and adults) that comprise each generation (Kabata, 1979). More complex models must consider not only the temporal partitioning of the generation represented by these stages but also the differences between them, expressed in terms of their morphology, physiology, environment and behaviour.…”

Two Species of Caligidae(Copepoda) Parasitic on Cultured Rabbit Fish(Siganus fuscescens) in Taiwan.

“…It is interesting to point out that the armature of leg 3 has been consid ered as a stable feature of this genus without taxo nomic significance. Thus, in his monumental work on the copepod parasites of British fishes, Kabata (1979) redescribed 7 species of Lepeophtheirus with out giving a word or illustration for their leg 3, and in his work on the 10 species of Lepeophtheirus from fishes of British Columbia (Kabata, 1973), he dealt with the basal spine only for leg 3. However, with the discovery of L. atypicus, which is distinguished primarily by the armature of leg 3, attention to the structure of leg 3 is duely called for in the work on the taxonomy of Lepeophtheirus.…”

Occurrence and taxonomic status of the copepodUnicolax chrysophryenusRoubal, Armitage & Rohde, 1983 (Poecilostomatoida: Bomolochidae) parasitic on the snapperPagrus auratus(Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

“…2). In contrast, all of the Bomolochus figured in Kabata (1979) and Byrnes (1986) show a marked curvature of the 4th seta of the 1 st antenna. The transfer of Unicolax chrysophryenus to Bomolochus by Byrnes (1986) also ignored the similarity between the rami of the 1st swimming legs of males and females of this species.…”