Cheng Yu-Rong, Lu Tsai-Ming, Ding De-Sing
Department of Fisheries Production and Management, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, No. 142, Haijhuan Rd., Nanzih District, Kaohsiung 811213, Taiwan.
Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, No. 128, Academia Rd., Section 2, Nankang District, Taipei 115024, Taiwan.
Animals (Basel). 2021 Sep 29;11(10):2847. doi: 10.3390/ani11102847.
A comprehensive knowledge of relationships between coral and coral-associated organisms is essential for the conservation studies of the coral reef community, yet the biodiversity database of coral-inhabiting copepods remains incomplete. Here we surveyed in a widely distributed scleractinian coral, Dana, 1846, and newly discovered two endoparasitic copepod species, sp. nov. and sp. nov. These two new species are described based on specimens collected in Taiwan, and they share several common morphological characters of copepods, i.e., region dorsal to fifth legs having three posteriorly directed processes unequally. However, . sp. nov. is distinguishable from other species by the morphology of the endopods of legs, antenna, maxilla, and maxilliped (in both genders). The morphological characters of . sp. nov. are the endopods of legs, leg 5, and maxilliped in the male. Including the two new species described in the present work, the genus Humes, 1960 belongs to the cyclopoid family Xarifiidae Humes, 1960 currently consists of 94 species, and eight of them live in association with the coral. A comparison table and a key to the species of from corals are given herein.
全面了解珊瑚与珊瑚相关生物之间的关系对于珊瑚礁群落的保护研究至关重要，但栖息在珊瑚中的桡足类生物多样性数据库仍然不完整。在此，我们对一种广泛分布的石珊瑚（达纳，1846年）进行了调查，并新发现了两种内寄生桡足类新物种，即新种1和新种2。这两个新物种是根据在台湾采集的标本描述的，它们具有一些桡足类的共同形态特征，即第五对腿背侧区域有三个向后的不等长突起。然而，新种1通过腿、触角、上颚和颚足（两性）的内肢形态与其他物种区分开来。新种2的形态特征在于雄性的腿、第五对腿和颚足的内肢。包括本研究中描述的两个新物种在内，1960年的Humes属属于1960年的桡足类Xarifiidae科，目前由94个物种组成，其中8个与珊瑚共生。本文给出了来自珊瑚的该属物种比较表和检索表。
