| infestation of lernaeenicus seeri (copepoda: pennellidae) and hirudinella ventricosa (digenea: hirudinellidae) on wahoo acanthocybium solandri collected from parangipettai, southeast coast of india. | a commercially important fish, wahoo acanthocybium solandri (cuvier, 1832) (scombridae), was collected to study the infestation of parasites from parangipettai landing center, tamil nadu, southeast coast of india for a period of one year from january to december 2011. a total of 644 fish were captured and screened for parasites. off 644 fish, 270 were infested by a parasitic copepod lernaeenicus seeri kirtisinghe, 1934 (siphonostomatoida: pennellidae) on the body surface. it is a mesoparasite, s ... | 2014 | 25382474 |
| the genus lernaeenicus lesueur (copepoda, siphonostomatoida, pennellidae) in india: a checklist with notes on its taxonomy and ecology. | members of the pennellid genus lernaeenicus lesueur, 1824 (copepoda, siphonostomatoida) have frequently been recorded from commercially important fishes collected along the coasts of india. marine fish hosts from landing centres at nagapattinam and parangipettai tamil nadu, southeast coast of india, were examined for parasitic copepods between january 2011 and december 2013. a total of nine species including three unidentified species of lernaeenicus were recorded: (1) l. alatus rangnekar, 1962 ... | 2016 | 27811797 |