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be that this species also belongs in the genus Dentigryps and is closely 

 allied to D. ulua. It differs from the latter primarily in the 2-seg- 

 mented abdomen of the female, the female postoral process, the lack 

 of a spinelike projection on the protopodite of the fourth thoracic leg, 

 and the absence of fifth-leg projections in the male. L. spinifer 

 appears to have about the same relation with D. ulua as D. litus has 

 with D. curtus, although neither Kirtisinghe (1937) nor Rangnekar 

 (1959) give a substantial description of the species and do not compare 

 it with Dentigryps. 



Two other species of the genus Lepeophtheirus may also belong in 

 the genus Dentigryps. The first, L. lichiae Barnard, 1948 (Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 12), appears similar to D. ulua and L. spinifer and, 

 like these, has been taken from carangid fishes. The second, L. molae 

 Heegaard, 1962 (Rec. Aust. Mus., vol. 25), has been taken from the 

 sunfish Mola mola in Australia. 



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