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Parasite
Volume 25, 2018
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DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2018003
Published online 09 February 2018

© S. Ohtsuka et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2018

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Introduction

Pennellid copepods are highly modified, meso- or ecto-parasitic copepods infecting marine fish and mammals as definitive hosts [8]. The life cycle of the family is complex, with some genera needing two hosts, while others require only a single host [7,8,20,24]. The intermediate hosts of Cardiodectes Wilson, 1917 and Pennella Oken, 1815, with two hosts each, are free-swimming molluscs [8,16,31,36]. Some species of the genera Pennella, Peniculus Nordmann, 1832 and Lernaeenicus Le Sueur, 1824 heavily parasitize wild and cultured commercially important fish and squids throughout the world’s oceans, presumably causing economic losses [3,20,28,31,32,33,34,35,38,48]. The genera Cardiodectes and Sarcotretes Jungersen, 1911 have been found on mesopelagic and bathypelagic fish [5,8,13,17,18,22,46,49].

During a survey on the deep-water plankton of Suruga Bay, Japan, an undescribed pennellid copepod was discovered on the Pacific viperfish Chauliodus macouni, 1890, Bean (Fig. 1A, B). This animal generally resembles three pennellid genera, Sarcotretes, Lernaeenicus and Peniculus, placing it within the family Pennellidae as defined by Boxshall [4], although the first two genera appear taxonomically confused. In Sarcotretes and Lernaeenicus, the neck (see “ne” in Fig. 1) is composed of the first to fourth pedigerous somites, while in Peniculus, the fourth pedigerous somite is incorporated into the trunk [8]. According to the keys to pennellid genera provided by Kabata [23] and Boxshall & Halsey [8], a feature distinguishing these two genera is the presence (in Sarcotretes) or absence (in Lernaeenicus) of a middle constriction of the neck. However, this is not applicable to all species of the former. For example, Sarcotretes longirostris Ho, Nagasawa, & Kim, 2007 bears a slender neck without a constriction midway (see Fig. 1A in Ho et al. [17]). On the other hand, Lernaeenicus also seems to be a catch-all group when the morphological variability in the cephalosomes, abdomens and legs is considered. Some species of Lernaeenicus bear a well-developed abdomen, while in others it is highly reduced like in Sarcotretes. In many species, legs 3 and 4 are uniramous, while in L. multilobatus Lewis, 1959 they are biramous. Castro Romero [11] provided a different key to pennellid genera, and suggested that the key characteristics differentiating these two genera are the morphology of the cephalic holdfasts, proboscis and labium.

The present paper deals with the taxonomy of the undescribed pennellid copepod parasitizing the Pacific viperfish, and discusses the validity of the genera Sarcotretes and Lernaeenicus.

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Protosarcotretes nishikawai n. g., n. sp., adult female (holotype). A. whole specimen, in-situ on host, after fixation; B. whole specimen (arrowed), in-situ on host, before fixation; C. whole specimen, dissected out of host. Abbreviations: ce: cephalothorax, es: egg string, ne: neck, tr: trunk. Scales in mm.

Materials and methods

The present specimens (a parasitic copepod attached posterior to the right eye of its host fish) were captured in Suruga Bay (35°02.3’N, 138°40.5’E) between 12:21-13:51 on September 8, 2017 in an oblique tow (0-810 m depth) of an ORI net (335 μm mesh, 1.6 m mouth diameter) during cruise SRM17-9-VPR of the T/V Hokuto (Tokai University). The specimens were photographed live before being preserved in 99.5% ethanol (see Fig. 1). The host fish was identified as Chauliodus macouni Bean, 1890 by reference to Nakabo [29].

The parasitic copepod was removed from the host tissue and then partly dissected in lactophenol with a pair of fine needles under a dissecting microscope (SZX7, Olympus Co., Ltd.). The body and appendages were examined in lactophenol and drawn with the aid of a camera lucida attached to a compound microscope (BX53, Olympus Co., Ltd.). The specimens were deposited in the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History (KMNH). Terminology follows Huys & Boxshall [19] and Ho et al. [17].

Results

Genus Protosarcotretes n. g.

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Order Siphonostomatoida Burmeister, 1835

Family Pennellidae Burmeister, 1835

Type species. Protosarcotretes nishikawai n. g., n. sp. (by monotypy).

Other species. Protosarcotretes multilobatus (Lewis, 1959) (new combination); Protosarcotretes gnavus (Leigh-Sharpe, 1934) (new combination).

Etymology. The new generic name is derived from proto (Greek prefixed, meaning primitive) and a closely related genus Sarcotretes, and refers to the primitive condition, especially in the segmentation and setation of legs 1–4, of the new genus. Gender masculine.

Diagnosis. Body straight, without brush-like structure on abdomen. Cephalothoracic holdfast represented by pair of lateral expansions. Oral cone weakly produced anteroventrally to form proboscis. Neck comprising pedigers 2–4, first urosomite and anterior part of trunk. Trunk cylindrical; abdomen highly reduced; caudal rami present, bilobate with 2 and 4 setae, respectively. Egg string uniseriate. Total length ca. 10 mm.

Antennule indistinctly 4-segmented. Antenna 3-segmented, heavily sclerotized; second segment produced at subterminal corner into stout triangular process; third segment curved inward to form subchela with process of preceding segment, bearing minute basal seta. Mandible simple stylet-like, with no teeth distally. Maxillule unilobate, inner lobe with 2 terminal setae; outer lobe absent. Maxilla 2-segmented; first segment with no accessory process; second segment bearing 4 rows of spinular prominences on calamus.

Legs 1–4 biramous; rami 2-segmented; armature elements shown in Table 1.

Remarks. Once both Sarcotretes and Lernaeenicus are rigidly defined, it is evident that the establishment of a new genus for the present material is warranted. However, since many taxa belonging to these genera were poorly described in the 18th and at the beginning of the 19th centuries, the definitions below are still tentative and await a complete revision (see Raja et al. [38]).

Adult females of Sarcotretes are relatively rigidly defined by the following synapomorphies in comparison with other closely related pennellid genera: (1) paired cephalic holdfasts expanded laterally, (2) oral cone moderately or highly developed, produced anteroventrally to form proboscis, (3) abdomen highly reduced, (4) caudal rami absent, (5) leg 3 uniramous, and leg 4 represented by vestige, (6) armature elements of legs 1–3 as presented in Table 1 (based on Uyeno et al. [46]), and (7) rudimentary outer spines present on first exopodal segments of legs 1 and 2. Based on observations of the labium by Castro Romero & Kuroki [12] and Castro Romero [11], those of Sarcotretes bear a pair of pad-like structures. The body length of adult females ranged from 13–85 mm [13,17,18,22,46,49]. This genus has so far accommodated the following four valid species: S. eristaliformis (Brian, 1908); S. scopeli Jungersen, 1911; S. longrostris Ho, Nagasawa, & Kim, 2007 and S. umitake Uyeno, Wakabayashi & Nagasawa, 2014. Sarcotretes mainly parasitizes deep-sea planktonic and benthic fish.

Adult females of Lernaeenicus are characterized by: (1) cephalothorax usually bearing 3 or more dorsal, simple or branching processes/knobs (at least one median and 2 lateral), which are sometimes heavily sclerotized, (2) oral cone moderately or highly produced anteroventrally, (3) abdomen elongate, (4) caudal rami present or absent, (5) first segment of maxilla with one or more processes, (6) legs 3 and 4 both retained, uniramous, (7) armature elements shown in Table 1 (based on Shiino [42,43], Kabata [23], Sebastian & George [41], Schram [39], Oldewage [30], and Knoff & Boeger [25]), and (8) rudimentary outer spine present on first exopodal segment of leg 1. In addition, Castro Romero [11] considered that the presence of a row of spinules or scale-like plates on the labium is important to define the genus. The body length is highly variable, ranging from 12 to 126 mm, [23,30,38,40,49]. According to Boxshall & Walter [9], 32 valid species are assigned to Lernaeenicus. However, it seems that Lernaeenicus quadrilobatus Yamaguti & Utiumi, 1953 infecting the blue lantern-fish Diaphus coeruleus (Klunzinger) is intermediate between Lernaeenicus and Sarcotretes on the basis of the morphology of the cephalothorax, abdomen and legs. Lernaeenicus gracilis (Heller, 1865), infecting the shallow-water carangid Lichina amia (Linnaeus), is also enigmatic, being similar to the new genus in having the cephalothorax with a pair of simple lateral expansions and a short abdomen. However, Heller [15] mentioned that the four pairs of legs below the neck are completely the same as in L. monillaris (=Lernaeenicus sprattae) with legs 3 and 4 uniramous. A taxonomic conclusion is pending until this species is redescribed in detail.

Raja et al. [38] summarized the host-parasite relationships of 13 species of Lernaeenicus occurring in the Indian Ocean: their hosts are restricted to shallow water families such as Blenniidae, Carangidae, Engraulidae, Hemiramphidae, Mugilidae, Nemipteridae, Polynemidae, and Scombridae.

The new genus described here shows many plesiomorphies in the oral cone and legs (see Boxshall [4]), but some states in the mandible, maxillule and maxilla can be regarded as apomorphic. Although Lernaeenicus multilobatus Lewis, 1959 parasitic on the angler-fish Gigantactis sp. (Gigantacinidae), was poorly described by Lewis [27], it can be assigned to the new genus by: (1) the holdfast composed of a pair of cephalothoracic lateral expansions, (2) the abdomen being highly reduced, and (3) leg 4 being biramous. Lernaeenicus gnavus Leigh-Sharpe, 1934 was poorly described on the basis of a single adult female with a damaged cephalothorax, in which the oral cone cannot be seen in Fig. 35 of the original description [26]. However, the morphological and ecological features suggest that it is probably assignable to the new genus we describe: (1) the abdomen is reduced; (2) the body length is about 10 mm, regardless of the damaged cephalothorax; (3) the host fish Polyipnus spinosus Günther belongs to the deep-sea family Sternoptychidae.

An evolutionary trend in reduction of segmentation of the legs is distinct in adult females of the Protosarcotretes-Sarcotretes-Lernaeenicus lineage (present study). Similar patterns can be found in the legs of parasitic copepod families such as Chondracanthidae, Pandaridae, and Hatschekiidae [23]. Generally, anterior legs are relatively conserved and show full segmentation in their rami, while posterior legs tend to have the number of segments reduced, finally leading to a vestigial condition (Table 1).

Table 1

Segmentation and setation of legs 1 to 4 of Sarcotretes, Lernaeenicus and Protosarcotretes n. g. Bold letters indicate differences among genera. Number in parentheses shows variation.

Protosarcotretes nishikawai n. g., n. sp.

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Type-material. Holotype, one ovigerous female infecting the Pacific viperfish Chauliodus macouni (standard length 127 mm) (KMNH VR 110,001) collected from depths of 0–810 m, Suruga Bay (35°02.3’N, 138°40.5’E) between local time 12:21–13:51 on September 8, 2017, cephalothorax partly dissected and mounted on a glass slide, body in vial, KMNH IvR 500,945.

Type-locality. Suruga Bay (35°02.3’N, 138°40.5’E), off Japan.

Host and attachment site. Chauliodus macouni Bean; attachment site: skin posterior to right eye.

Etymology. The new specific name is in honor of Professor Jun Nishikawa (Tokai University) who was helpful in collection of the present parasitic copepod during his research cruise in September 2017.

Description. Adult ovigerous female. Body (Figs 1, 2A) consisting of expanded cephalosome, relatively short neck and cylindrical trunk. Trunk tinged dark brown before fixation (Fig. 1B), and bearing white spots sparsely after fixation (Fig. 1A, C). Total length 10.6 mm from anterior tip of cephalosome to posterior end of caudal ramus, excluding setae. Parts anterior to genital complex (trunk) embedded in host tissue (arrow in Fig. 2A). Integument of dorsal side of posterior parts of cephalothorax and pedigers 2–4 finely wrinkled (Fig. 2B). Cephalothorax expanded laterally, forming paired holdfasts covered with thin cuticular membrane. Rostrum (Fig. 2C) pointed at tip, with pair of fine hair-like sensilla anteriorly. First pediger incompletely incorporated into cephalon. Naupliar eyes present (Fig. 2A). Oral cone (Fig. 2D, E) produced ventrally, not forming elongate proboscis, with four ring-like structures (Fig. 2D); pair of buccal stylets positioned anteriorly (arrowed in Fig. 2D). Neck comprising pedigers 2–4, first urosomite and anterior part of trunk, 1.4 mm in length. Trunk (Figs 1C, 2A) 7.2 mm in length, about 2.2 times as long as cephalothorax and neck combined; paired gonopores located subterminally; abdomen highly reduced, furnished with minute prominences; caudal ramus (Fig. 2F) bilobate, outer and inner lobes bearing 2 and 4 setae, respectively. Egg string (Figs 1, 2A) straight, uniseriate, containing 65 eggs in left sac.

Antennule (Fig. 2G) incompletely 4-segmented, possibly many setal elements missing, probably during dissection. Antenna (Fig. 2H) heavily chitinized, 3-segmented; second segment ornamented with minute prominences on surface, remarkably produced into triangular subterminal process on inner margin, opposing tip of subchela formed by third segment; third segment curved inward, with minute basal element on anterior surface. Mandible (Fig. 2I) simple stylet with no teeth terminally. Maxillule (Fig. 2J, K) unilobate, inner lobe with two terminal setae of unequal length; outer lobe absent. Maxilla (Fig. 2L, M) 2-segmented; first segment (lacertus) unarmed; second segment (brachium) reflexed, with terminal third (calamus) smoothly curved inward, tapering distally, having 2 rows of spinular prominences on each side; canna subterminally located on second segment, small (arrow in Fig. 2M).

Legs 1-4 (Figs 3A–D) biramous, with 2-segmented rami; armature elements shown in Table 1; protopods with suture between coxa and basis distinctly visible; protopod and rami sparsely ornamented with minute spinules on surface.

Remarks. The new species is easily distinguished from its poorly described congener, P. multilobatus (Lewis, 1959) by the morphology of the holdfast: simple in the former and ramified in the latter. It differs from P. gnavus (Leigh-Sharpe, 1934) by the relative length of the trunk to the cephalothorax and neck combined (2.2 times in P. nishikawai n. sp. vs ca. 0.7 in P. gnavus).

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Protosarcotretes nishikawai n. g., n. sp., adult female (holotype). A. Habitus, dorsal view (trunk twisted), embedded part anterior to arrowhead; B. Pedigers 1–4, dorsal view; C. Rostrum; D. Oral cone, ventral view, pair of buccal stylets arrowed; E. Oral cone, lateral view; F. Caudal ramus; G. Antennule; H. Antenna; I. Mandible; J. Maxillule; K. Maxillule, setae omitted; L. Maxilla; M. Terminal segment of maxilla, canna arrowed. Scales in mm.
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Protosarcotretes nishikawai n. g., n. sp., adult female (holotype). A. Leg 1, anterior surface; B. Leg 2, anterior surface; C. Leg 3, anterior surface, D. Leg 4, anterior surface. Scales in mm.

Discussion

Members of the parasitic family Pennellidae have successfully colonized the deep-sea [5,8,49]. Colonization of pennellids into the deep-sea seems to have occurred repeatedly, because the most basal genus Peniculus is a shallow-water taxon [4,23,47] and more derived groups are composed of a mixture of shallow- and deep-water taxa [4,23]. Host-parasite relationships in deep-sea taxa in the family are shown in Table 2. Sarcotretes and Protosarcotretes seem to be limited to deep waters, while only a few members of Lernaeenicus and Cardiodectes infect deep-sea fish. As already pointed out by Boxshall [5] and Boxshall & Halsey [8], Sarcotretes scopeli and Cardiodectes bellottii (Richiardi, 1882)  (as C. medusaeus (Wilson, 1908) exhibit low host-specificity, utilizing a wide range of fish families or genera. Sarcotretes scopeli infects eight families of fish, while C. bellottii parasitizes only Myctophidae. The Stomiidae host family utilized by P. nishikawai has only rarely been reported as a host of pennellids in contrast to the  family Myctophidae. It is interesting to note that Stomiiformes is generally thought to be basal relative to the Myctophidae [45], mirroring the condition in their copepod parasites. Visual observations with a Remotely-Operated Vehicle (ROV) have clearly recorded ectoparasitism of siphonostomatoid copepods such as Lernaeopodidae and Sphyriidae on deep-sea demersal fish, but not yet for Pennellidae [37]. This may partly be due to the relatively small-size of their bodies and partly due to their low abundances in the deep-sea.

The life cycle of Protosarcotretes is unknown, but can be deduced on the basis of that of other pennellids, especially Lernaeenicus sprattae (Sowerby, 1806) [1,7,10,16,20,24,36,39,40,41,44,49]. Basal pennellid groups such as Peniculus, Sarcotretes, Lernaeenicus [4,23] and Protosarcotretes may be characterized by the possession of a single host [7,20,23]. However, the number of developmental stages depends on the taxon. In Peniculus, Lernaeenicus and Peroderma two patterns with or without naupliar stages are recognized. i.e., 2 nauplii, 1 copepodid, 4 chalimi, and adult (inL. sprattae), and 1 copepodid, 4 chalimi, and adult (in Peroderma cylindricum Heller, 1868, Peniculisa shiinoi Izawa, 1965, and Peniculus minuticaudae Shiino, 1958) [2,20,21]. In P. cylindricum and P. shiinoi, only hatching stages were observed [2,21], while in L. sprattae and P. minuticaudae all post-embryonic developmental stages were fully described [20,39]. In deep-sea pennellids, the hatching stage is an infective copepodid in C. bellottii (Richiardi, 1882) [36], but is unknown in Sarcotretes and Protosarcotretes. Clarification of the life cycle would be possible if embryos developed to before the hatching stage were to be found inside the egg strings.

Table 2

Host-parasite relationships of pennellid copepods infecting deep-sea fish. Scientific names of fish hosts are based on FishBase (2017) [14].

Acknowledgements

We would like to express our sincere thanks to Dr. R. Böttger-Schnack for her translation of Heller’s (1865) German reference into English, and to Dr. B. A. Venmathi Maran for providing us with references on the Pennellidae. Thanks are due to Prof. Jun Nishikawa and the captain, crew and scientific party of the T/V Hokuto cruise. The photograph of the fresh, non-preserved animals was kindly provided by Mitsuko Hidaka-Umetsu. We also thank Dr. H. Yamamoto of the Environmental Impact Assessment Research Group, within the Research and Development Center for Submarine Resources, JAMSTEC, for his support, and Dr. M. Shimomura for his dealing with the materials of the parasitic copepod and its host fish in Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, Japan. This study is a contribution to the International Network for Scientific Investigations of Deep-Sea Ecosystems (INDEEP), and the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI). This study was partially supported by grants-in-aid by KAKENHI from the Japan Society of the Promotion of Science (Nos 16K07825, 24248032, 26304030, 23405031), JST grant CREST, the fund for Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research by the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, and the Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP) for the Development of New-generation Research Protocols for Submarine Resources; Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology. The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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Cite this article as: Ohtsuka S, Lindsay DJ, Izawa K. 2018. A new genus and species of the family Pennellidae (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) infecting the Pacific viperfish Chauliodus macouni. Parasite 25, 6

All Tables

Table 1

Segmentation and setation of legs 1 to 4 of Sarcotretes, Lernaeenicus and Protosarcotretes n. g. Bold letters indicate differences among genera. Number in parentheses shows variation.

In the text
Table 2

Host-parasite relationships of pennellid copepods infecting deep-sea fish. Scientific names of fish hosts are based on FishBase (2017) [14].

In the text

All Figures

thumbnail Figure 1

Protosarcotretes nishikawai n. g., n. sp., adult female (holotype). A. whole specimen, in-situ on host, after fixation; B. whole specimen (arrowed), in-situ on host, before fixation; C. whole specimen, dissected out of host. Abbreviations: ce: cephalothorax, es: egg string, ne: neck, tr: trunk. Scales in mm.
In the text
thumbnail Figure 2

Protosarcotretes nishikawai n. g., n. sp., adult female (holotype). A. Habitus, dorsal view (trunk twisted), embedded part anterior to arrowhead; B. Pedigers 1–4, dorsal view; C. Rostrum; D. Oral cone, ventral view, pair of buccal stylets arrowed; E. Oral cone, lateral view; F. Caudal ramus; G. Antennule; H. Antenna; I. Mandible; J. Maxillule; K. Maxillule, setae omitted; L. Maxilla; M. Terminal segment of maxilla, canna arrowed. Scales in mm.
In the text
thumbnail Figure 3

Protosarcotretes nishikawai n. g., n. sp., adult female (holotype). A. Leg 1, anterior surface; B. Leg 2, anterior surface; C. Leg 3, anterior surface, D. Leg 4, anterior surface. Scales in mm.
In the text

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