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The discovery of Lepeophtheirus lichiae Barnard, 1948 (Copepoda: Caligidae) parasitic on leerfish, Lichia amia (Linnaeus) in the Mediterranean Sea

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Lepeophtheirus lichiae Barnard, 1948 (Copepoda: Caligidae), a very rare and poorly known sea louse, is redescribed based on a single newly collected female. The specimen was collected from the dorsal body surface of the leerfish, Lichia amia (Linnaeus) caught in north-eastern Mediterranean waters off the Turkish coast. The original and only available description of L. lichiae was incomplete and with only three illustrations: the dorsal view of the female habitus, the sternal furca, and the postantennal process. Here, we present a full re-description of female of L. lichiae and report it from the Mediterranean Sea for the first time.

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This research was funded by the Cukurova University academic research projects unit (Project No. FBA-2017-7490).

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  1. Department of Fish Diseases and Aquaculture, Faculty of Fisheries, University of Cukurova, 01330, Adana, Turkey

    Yetkin Sakarya & Argun Akif Özak

  2. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK

    Geoffrey Allan Boxshall

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Sakarya, Y., Özak, A.A. & Boxshall, G.A. The discovery of Lepeophtheirus lichiae Barnard, 1948 (Copepoda: Caligidae) parasitic on leerfish, Lichia amia (Linnaeus) in the Mediterranean Sea. Syst Parasitol 96, 603–616 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-019-09874-8

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