| new species of hatschekia poche, 1902 (copepoda: hatschekiidae) parasitic on marine fishes of kuwait. | three new species of hatschekia are described from the gill filaments of fishes taken in the persian gulf: h. seyi n. sp. from heniochus acuminatus (linnaeus), h. nodosa n. sp. from lutjanus coccineus (cuvier) and h. tanysoma n. sp. from l. fulviflamma (forsskål). h. seyi differs from its congeners in having the cephalothorax longer than the trunk; h. nodosa, in having multiple nodules on the posterolateral margins of the trunk; and h. tanysoma, in having the trunk more than six times the length ... | 2001 | 11389334 |
| first record of gnathia sp. an ectoparasitic isopod isolated from the coral reef fish, heniochus acuminatus collected from the gulf of mannar region, southeast coast of india. | an ectoparasitic isopod, gnathia sp. was found in the gill chambers of heniochus acuminatus collected from the gulf of mannar region, southeast coast of india. the present study signifies the new record of gnathia sp. an coral reef ectoparasitic isopod captured from the gill net during october 2014. among the 36 specimens examined 5 specimens were infested with pranzia larvae of gnathia sp. the size of the isopods were ranged from 1.5 to 3.2 mm and the host fish length varied between 119 and 230 ... | 2017 | 28316410 |
| a review of the genus sclerocollum schmidt & paperna, 1978 (acanthocephala: cavisomidae) from rabbitfishes (siganidae) in the indian and pacific oceans. | seven of the eleven species of siganus richardson (siganidae) collected off the coasts of australia, new caledonia, french polynesia and palau were infected with species of sclerocollum schmidt & paperna, 1978 (acanthocephala: cavisomidae). a principal component analysis (pca) and a discriminant analysis were performed on a morphometric dataset of specimens of sclerocollum including borrowed type-specimens of sc. rubrimaris schmidt & paperna, 1978 from the indian ocean and of sc. robustum edmond ... | 2016 | 26790676 |
| evolution and mechanics of long jaws in butterflyfishes (family chaetodontidae). | we analyzed the functional morphology and evolution of the long jaws found in several butterflyfishes. we used a conservative reanalysis of an existing morphological dataset to generate a phylogeny that guided our selection of seven short- and long-jawed taxa in which to investigate the functional anatomy of the head and jaws: chaetodon xanthurus, prognathodes falcifer (formerly chaetodon falcifer), chelmon rostratus, heniochus acuminatus, johnrandallia nigrirostris, forcipiger flavissimus, and ... | 2001 | 11304744 |
| prey capture in long-jawed butterflyfishes (chaetodontidae): the functional basis of novel feeding habits. | several species of butterflyfishes (chaetodontidae) possess extremely elongate jaws, and feed mostly by probing the benthos and biting off pieces of attached invertebrates. in contrast, forcipiger longirostris, the longest-jawed chaetodontid, exhibits a novel pattern of prey use, feeding almost exclusively on small caridean shrimp, a mobile and highly elusive prey type that lives within the structure of coral reefs. we explored the functional basis of this novel pattern of prey use by comparing ... | 2001 | 11164861 |