Catoessa gruneri Bowman & Tareen, 1983

Martin, Melissa B., Tuah, Alia, Muhamad, Juariah H. & Bruce, Niel L., 2022, A review of the family Cymothoidae (Isopoda: Cymothooidea) infesting marine fishes from Malaysian waters, with new host and geographical records, Zootaxa 5222 (1), pp. 1-36 : 7

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scientific name	Catoessa gruneri Bowman & Tareen, 1983
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Catoessa gruneri Bowman & Tareen, 1983 View in CoL View at ENA

Catoessa gruneri View in CoL . — Aneesh, Helna & Sudha, 2016: 1270–1277, fig. 1f. — Ravichandran, Vigneshwaran & Rameshkumar, 2019: 15 View Cited Treatment , figs 1d–f.

(Misidentification) Joryma brachysoma View in CoL . —Anandkumar, Rameshkumar, Ravichandran, Nagarajan, Prabakaran & Ramesh, 2017: 55–60, fig. 2f.

Type material. Female holotype, National Museum of Natural History ( USNM 191070 About USNM ). For other paratypes see Bowman & Tareen (1983).

Type locality. South of Faylaka , Kuwait Bay, Arabian Gulf .

Type host. From the gills of Aurigequula fasciata (Lacepède, 1803) (formerly Leiognathus fasciatus ).

Host. Leiognathidae , Terapontidae and Pristigasteridae : Leiognathus fasciatus [currently Aurigequula fasciata (Lacepède, 1803) ] (see Bowman & Tareen 1983), Ilisha melastoma (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) , Terapon puta (Cuvier, 1829) , Leiognathus daura (currently accepted as Karalla daura ) (Cuvier, 1829) and Eubleekeria splendens (Cuvier, 1829) (see Aneesh et al. 2016; Ravichandran et al. 2019).

Distribution. Arabian Gulf, Kuwait ( Bowman & Tareen 1983); India ( Aneesh et al. 2016; Ravichandran et al. 2019); Malaysia, off the coast of Miri (Anand Kumar et al. 2017).

Remarks. Catoessa gruneri can be readily identified by a pyriform cephalon with rounded rostral tip; pereopods basis without carina; coxae 2–6 shorter than their respective pereonites; pereonite 7 partly to nearly completely overlapping pleonite 1; pleonite 1 narrower than rest of pleon, pleonites 2–5 as wide as pereonite 7; epimera laterally directed; posteriorly narrowed pleotelson; uropods extending to posterior pleotelson end ( Ravichandran et al. 2019).

According to Aneesh et al. (2019b), and Anandkumar et al. (2017), the figure of Joryma brachysoma ( Pillai, 1964) from the host Netuma bilineata in Sarawak, Malaysia is a misidentification and refers to Catoessa gruneri based on its morphological characteristics.

References

Aneesh, P. T., Helna, A. K. & Sudha, K. (2016) Branchial cymothoids infesting the marine food fishes of Malabar coast. Journal Parasitic Diseases, 40 (4), 1270 - 1277. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12639 - 015 - 0666 - 0

Aneesh, P. T., Helna, A. K. & Kumar, A. B. (2019 b) Redescription and neotype designation for the poorly known fish parasitic cymothoid Joryma brachysoma (Pillai, 1964) (Crustacea: Isopoda) from India. Folia Parasitologica, 66, 1 - 6. https: // doi. org / 10.14411 / fp. 2019.014

Bowman, T. E. & Tareen, I. U. (1983) Cymothoidae from fishes of Kuwait Arabian Gulf (Crustacea: Isopoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 382, 1 - 30. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.382

Pillai, N. K. (1964) Parasitic isopods of the family Cymothoidae from South Indian fishes. Parasitology, 54, 211 - 223. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 003118200006786 X

Ravichandran, S., Vigneshwaran, P. & Rameshkumar, G. (2019) A taxonomic review of the fish parasitic isopod family Cymothoidae Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothooidea) of India. Zootaxa, 4622 (1), 1 - 99. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4622.1.1