COPEPODS OF THE FAMILIES LERNAEOPODIDAE AND NAOBRANCHIIDAE PARASITIC ON FISHES FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSHORE WATERS

Abstract

ABSTRACT Three morphological forms of the female of Neobrachiella robusta from three species of Sebastes are described along with the first description of the male. Three new species of parasitic copepods are described and illustrated. They are: Clavella embiotocae, new species, from the gill filaments of Embiotoca jacksoni, Rhacochilus vacca, and Phanerodon furcatus; Naobranchia microsoma. new species, from the gill filaments of Genyonemus lineatus, Citharichthys stigmaeus, C. sordidus, and C. xanthostigma; and Naobranchia scorpaenae,new species, from the gill filaments of Scorpaena guttata. All copepods collected parasitized fishes caught in benthic trawls at the Orange County sewer outfall, California, between October 1975 and August 1976.