ABSTRACT
Descriptions and figures of the following new and recognized species of copepods parasitizing chitons are given: Leptochitonicola sphaerica sp. n. from Leptochiton rugatus (Carpenter in Pilsbry, 1892) from the Sea of Japan, Leptochitonicola intermedia sp. n. from Leptochiton sp. from off Eastern Kamchatka, L. hanleyellai sp. n. from Hanleyella asiatica Sirenko, 1973 from near Commanders Islands, Leptochitonicola attenuata sp. n. from Leptochiton cf. rugatus from near the Bering Sea coast of Bering Island, Ischnochitonika kurochkini sp. n. on Lepidozona multigranosa Sirenko, 1975, L. kobjakovae kobjakovae (Jakovleva, 1952) and L. albrechti (Schrenck, 1863) all from the Sea of Japan and Okhotsk Sea, Ischnochitonica aleutica sp. n. on Leptochiton cf. belknapi from near the Aleutian Islands and from Kronotsky Bay, and Leptochitonoides vitiasi gen. et sp. n. from Leptochiton cf. belknapi from near Prince Wales Island. Ischnochitonica lasalliana Franz et Bullock, 1990 and I. japonica Nagasawa et al., 1991 are redescribed, new hosts and localities are given. New data on other chitonophilids are reported including recognized species. The amended diagnoses of the genera Ischnochitonika Franz et Bullock, 1990 and Leptochitonicola Avdeev et Sirenko, 1991 are provided.
Subject(s)
Copepoda/anatomy & histology , Copepoda/classification , Polyplacophora/parasitology , Animals , Female , Geography , Male , Oceans and Seas , Species SpecificityABSTRACT
A new species of the genus Teredoika Stock, 1959 is described. T. aspectabilis sp. n., the second species of the genus, was found in the kidney of Clinopegma unicum in the Okhotsk Sea while the type species is known from the stomach of the shipworm Teredo utriculus caught in the Gulf of Naples.
