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Caligus selenecola Morales-Serna, Yáñez-Rivera & Gómez, 2024

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Species
Caligus Müller, 1785
selenecola
Morales-Serna, Yáñez-Rivera & Gómez
Morales-Serna, Francisco N., Beatriz Yáñez-Rivera & Samuel Gómez. 2024 Caligus selenecola sp. nov. (Siphonostomatoida, Caligidae) parasitic on the hairfin lookdown Selene brevoortii (Gill) from the Gulf of California, Mexico, with some comments on Caritus tolii Rangnekar 1984. ZooKeys 1209: 43-68.
Holotype, adult female preserved in ethanol (ICML-EMUCOP-090621-01), collected on 9 June 2021. Allotype, adult male preserved in ethanol (ICML-EMUCOP-081121-01), collected on 8 November 2021. Paratypes, 1 adult female preserved in ethanol (ICML-EMUCOP-090621-02) from the same host individual as the holotype; 1 adult female preserved in ethanol (ICML-EMUCOP-120921-01) from which pair of antennules and P1 a were dissected and mounted onto two slides, and 1 adult female dissected and mounted onto ten slides (ICML-EMUCOP-120921-02), collected on 12 September 2021; and 1 adult female and 1 adult male preserved in ethanol (ICML-EMUCOP-221121-01) from a single host individual collected on 22 November 2021.
Mexican Pacific, off Mazatlán Port (23°12’N, 106°26’W), Sinaloa, Mexico.
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