Abstract
Two rare species of parasitic copepods belonging to the genus Lernanthropus de Blainville, 1822 (Siphonostomatoida: Lernanthropidae) are redescribed in detail, based on material collected from Red Sea fishes, caught at El-Tor, near Sharm El-Sheikh on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. Adult females of Lernanthropus sanguineus Song & Chen, 1976 were found on the gills of snapper Lutjanus fulviflamma (Forsskål). This species was known only from its original description based on material from Chinese waters. Adult females of Lernanthropus triangularis Pillai, 1963 were obtained from the gills of mojarra Gerres oyena (Forsskål). Both parasite species are new records for Egyptian Red Sea waters and both host records are new.
Highlights
The family Lernanthropidae Kabata, 1979 currently comprises about 150 species belonging to eight genera (Boxshall & Halsey, 2004)
Host fish were purchased from local markets and examined for the presence of parasitic copepods
Two other lutjanid-inhabiting species, L. brevicephalus and L. lativentris, are known from the Indo-Pacific. The former has been reported from three lutjanids including Lutjanus sanguineus, the type-host of Lernanthropus sanguineus
Summary
The family Lernanthropidae Kabata, 1979 currently comprises about 150 species belonging to eight genera (Boxshall & Halsey, 2004). El-Rashidy Department of Oceanography, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Moharram Bey, Alexandria, Egypt
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