Species Scyphuliger manifestus Humes, 1991

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• Scyphuliger manifestus Humes, A.G. 1991. Copepoda associated with scleractinian corals on the Great Barrier Reef, northeastern Australia, with a key to the genera of Lichomolgidae. Journal of Natural History 25: 1171-1231 [1190].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀ (specimens are from Acropora hyacinthus (Dana), in 2m, Mermaid Cove, Lizard Island on 26/10/1982; account numbers not provided by author), Great Barrier Reef [14°39'50"S 145°27'00"E].
  Paratype(s) USNM ♂ (specimens are from Acropora hyacinthus (Dana), in 2m, Mermaid Cove, Lizard Island on 26/10/1982; account numbers not provided by author), Great Barrier Reef [14°39'50"S 145°27'00"E]; USNM 5♀ 7♂ (specimens are from Acropora hyacinthus (Dana), in 2m, Mermaid Cove, Lizard Island on 26/10/1982; account numbers not provided by author), Great Barrier Reef [14°39'50"S 145°27'00"E]; whereabouts unknown 2♀ 2♂ (specimens are from Acropora hyacinthus (Dana), in 2m, Mermaid Cove, Lizard Island on 26/10/1982; account numbers not provided by author; these paratypes remain in authors private collection), Great Barrier Reef [14°39'50"S 145°27'00"E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: coral reef.

Ectoparasitic.

Diagnosis

Scyphuliger manifestus may be distinguished from its two closely related congeners by several features: (1) its smaller size, length of female in S. concavipes 1.78 mm (1.59-1.93 mm), in S. tenuatus 1.39 mm (1.32-1.49 mm); (2) the dimensions and shape of the free segment of leg 5 in the female (in S. concavipes concave, densely covered with sensilla, 319 x 162 µm, ratio 2.01 : 1, in S. tenuatus 242 x 73 µm, not greatly concave, with small spinules along outer side; (3) female genital segment in dorsal view not strongly contacted in posterior third (as in its two congeners); and (4) second segment of second antenna of female fairly robust, 2.1 : 1 (not elongate and relatively slender, 6.18 : in S. concavipes, 4.5 : 1 in S. tenuatus).

General References

Humes, A.G. 1991. Copepoda associated with scleractinian corals on the Great Barrier Reef, northeastern Australia, with a key to the genera of Lichomolgidae. Journal of Natural History 25: 1171-1231 [1194] (Key to the species of the genus Scyphuliger (female))

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