Nerocila loveni Bovallius, 1887

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 : 18-19

Nerocila loveni Bovallius, 1887

Nerocila loveni Bovallius, 1887: 6 , pl. l (figs 13–17), 2 (figs 18–21).— Stebbing, 1893: 352, pl. 15.— Nierstrasz, 1915: 73; 1931: 124.— Trilles, 1979: 251, pl. 7 (fig. 2).— Bruce, 1987b: 405. — Bruce & Harrison-Nelson, 1988: 594, fig. 5.— Trilles, Rameshkumar & Ravichandran, 2013: 1273–1286, fig. 2e. Anand Kumar, Rameshkumar, Ravichandran, Rethna Priya, Nagarajan & Kwang Leng, 2015: 206–210, fig. 2e.— Rameshkumar, Ramesh, Ravichandran & Trilles, 2014a: 940–944, fig. 1f. — Rameshkumar, Ravichandran & Ramesh, 2014c: 124–128, fig. 3.— Rameshkumar, Ramesh, Ravichandran & Trilles, 2016: 968–970, figs 1, 2.— Ravichandran, Vigneshwaran & Rameshkumar, 2019: 53–57 , figs 8g –i, 9–12.

Type material. Not known.

Type locality. Indonesia (see Trilles, 1979).

Type host. Type host not recorded.

Host. Carangidae , Chirocentridae , Leiognathidae , Haemulidae : Leiognathus sp. ( Bruce & Harrison-Nelson 1988); Eubleekeria splendens (Cuvier, 1829) ( Trilles et al. 2013; Rameshkumar et al. 2014a); Chirocentrus dorab (Fabricius, 1775) (Anand Kumar et al. 2015) ; Carangoides malabaricus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) ( Rameshkumar et al. 2014b) and Pomadasys maculatus (Bloch, 1793) ( Rameshkumar et al. 2016) .

Distribution. Eastern Indian Ocean and northern central Indo-Pacific region: Singapore, Thailand, Borneo and Sarawak ( Bruce & Harrison-Nelson,1988; Anand Kumar et al. 2015), and India ( Trilles et al. 2013; Rameshkumar et al. 2014a; 2014b).

Remarks. The diagnostic characters of Nerocila loveni include coxae posterior angles successively more strongly produced and acute; cephalon anterior margin smoothly rounded or with slender medial point; pleonites 1 and 2 ventrolateral margins projecting as far as pleonite 5 and curving posteriorly obliquely to the longitudinal body axis ( Ravichandran et al. 2019). This species was compared to Nerocila depressa by Bruce & Harrison-Nelson (1988) using examined specimens from Singapore, Thailand, and Sarawak and differed from N. depressa in the posterolateral extensions of the coxae and pereonites being dorsally inflected and expressed laterally rather than posteriorly.