Tiddergasilus, Marques & Boeger, 2018

Marques, Taísa Mendes & Boeger, Walter A., 2018, Proposal of Tiddergasilus gen. nov. (Ergasilidae: Cyclopoida) for T. iheringi comb. nov. from the gills of Hoplias malabaricus (Erythrinidae: Characiformes) from Brazil, Zoologia (e 21577) 35, pp. 1-6 : 2

Tiddergasilus gen. nov.

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Diagnosis. Adult female body comprising prosome and urosome; cephalosome well defined; antenna prehensile presenting coxobasis, two segments, hooked claw; antennule 6-segmented; mandible presenting two blades (median and posterior), basis of maxilla partially toothed on convex margin; four pairs of legs; leg 1 exopod 3-segmented, endopod 2-segmented; legs 2 and 3 differ in number of setae on endopod; legs 2 and 3 exopod and endopod 3-segmented; leg 4 exopod 2-segmented, endopod 2-segmented; abdominal somites with spinules ventrally; caudal rami armed with 4 setae, egg sac long with 2-3 rows of eggs.

Type species. Tiddergasilus iheringi ( Tidd, 1942) comb. nov.

Etymology. The generic epithet is in honor of Wilbur M. Tidd, author of Ergasilus iheringi .