Genus Apodochondria Ho & Dojiri, 1988

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• Apodochondria Ho, J. & Dojiri, M. 1988. Copepods of the Family Chondracanthidae parasitic on Australian marine fishes. Australian Journal of Zoology 36: 273-291 [284].

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Diagnosis

Female- Head large, with many processes. Trunk inflated, with lateral and posterior processes. Genital complex with a pair of ventral globular lobes. Abdomen 2-segmented. Caudal ramus with 5 basal setae. Egg sac cylindrical; eggs multiserially arranged. First antenna filiform, 4-segmented. Second antenna uncinate, bearing an accessory claw. Oral appendages of typical chondracanthid form. Legs absent, except for rudimentary leg 5 located anterior to genito-abdomen.

Male- Body only slightly modified. First pediger incompletely incorporated with cephalosome. Metasomal somites large and distinct. Fifth pediger imperceptibly fused with genital complex. Abdomen 1-segmented. Caudal ramus armed with 6 various elements. First antenna 6-segmented. Second antenna uncinate, with atrophied tip of antenna. Oral appendages of typical chondracanthid form, except for reduced maxilliped. Legs 1 and 2 reduced, biramous. Leg 3 a small tubercle tipped with 2 setae.

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