OCCURRENCE AND TAXONOMIC STATUS OF THE COPEPOD UNICOLAX-CHRYSOPHRYENUS ROUBAL, ARMITAGE AND ROHDE, 1983 (POECILOSTOMATOIDA, BOMOLOCHIDAE) PARASITIC ON THE SNAPPER PAGRUS-AURATUS (BLOCH AND SCHNEIDER, 1801)
Ad. Sharples et Cw. Evans, OCCURRENCE AND TAXONOMIC STATUS OF THE COPEPOD UNICOLAX-CHRYSOPHRYENUS ROUBAL, ARMITAGE AND ROHDE, 1983 (POECILOSTOMATOIDA, BOMOLOCHIDAE) PARASITIC ON THE SNAPPER PAGRUS-AURATUS (BLOCH AND SCHNEIDER, 1801), New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 27(2), 1993, pp. 215-218
The copepod Unicolax chrysophryenus was found to inhabit the nasal cav
ities of the snapper Pagrus auratus in northern New Zealand waters. In
1986, this species had been transferred to the genus Bomolochus based
on its similarity to Bomolochus stocki Roubal, 1981 and an interpreta
tion of published figures. Two hundred and sixty-five specimens of U.
chrysophryenus were examined in this study and all possessed a straigh
t 4th seta on the 1 st antenna of the female, a feature characteristic
of the genus Unicolax and not of Bomolochus. The transfer of Unicolax
chrysophryenus to the genus Bomolochus was thus invalid.