COPEPOD CRUSTACEANS — LEWIS 



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segment flexed. Terminal process of second segment not as sharply 

 curved as in female, accessory process slightly longer. 



Female and male sternal furca (fig. 30c^) situated about halfway 

 between maxilliped bases and interpodal plate of first thoracic leg. 

 Process consisting of ovoid, heavily sclerotized plate with 2 winglike 

 anterolaterally projecting structures in addition to U-shaped furca. 

 Tines of furca either pointed or sharply rounded, outer margins 

 flatly convex. 



For nature of legs and armature, see figure 30 and table 11. 



Table 11. — Armature of thoracic legs I-IV of the female and male of 

 Lepeophtheirus crassus {Wilson and Bere, 1936) 



*0n both anterior and posterior surfaces of protopodite. 



Lepeophtheirus dissimulatus Wilson 



Lepeophtheirus dissimulatus Wilson, 1905b, p. 631, pi. 22. — Lewis, 1963, p. 195, 

 figs. 1-20; 1964a, p. 178, figs. 11-12. [For synonymy, see Lewis, 1964a.] 



Reported distribution and hosts. — 24 host records: 



locality 

 Bermuda 



Dry Tortugas 

 Galapagos Islands 



Eastern Pacific 



hosts 

 Epinephalus morio 

 E. striatus 

 Mycteroperca apua 

 Thynnus pelamys 

 Lactophrys triqueter 

 Epinephelus labriformis 

 Mycteroperca species 

 Bodianus diplotaenis 

 Epinephelus labrifrons 

 Merluccius productus 

 Paralichthys californicus 

 Hypsopsetta gattulata 

 Sphyraena argentea 



reference 

 Wilson, 1905b 



Linton, 1907 

 Heegaard, 1943b 

 Wilson, 1935b 

 Wilson, 1905b 

 Heegaard, 1943b 



Shiino, 1959d 



Figure 30. — Lepeophtheirus crassus (Wilson and Bere, 1936), lateral view: a, maxilla; b, 

 female maxilliped; c, male maxilliped; d, sternal furca (ventral view). Right thoracic 

 legs, anterior view: e, first; /, second segment of exopodite of first; g, second; h, third; i, 

 exopodite and endopodite of third; ;", fourth; k, frilled membrane on second segment of 

 exopodite of fourth; /, frilled membrane on terminal spines of third segment of exopodite 

 of fourth. 



