Lernaeolophus sultanus ( Milne Edwards, 1840 )

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1574.1.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7E6753E9-9FF4-42F1-AD3C-9D3F88BA0047
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D0177C1C-FFB2-FFB2-FF5F-8AF76795FAA1
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Lernaeolophus sultanus ( Milne Edwards, 1840 )
status

Lernaeolophus sultanus was found on Pagellus acarne and Boops boops , inserted in the roof of the mouth.

This species has been reported from the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Adriatic and the Indian Ocean ( Wilson 1917; Kirtisinghe 1935). In the Mediterranean, it was in particular found in Italy on Maena vulgaris ( Spicara maena ) ( Brian 1912), Spain on Lithognathus mormyrus and B. boops ( Zuniga & Suau 1967) , Tunisia on Diplodus annularis ( Seurat 1934) , Chrysophrys aurata ( Sparus aurata ), Spicara smaris , Dentex filosus ( D. gibbosus ) ( Raibaut et al. 1971), Liza saliens , Chelon labrosus ( Raibaut & Ben Hassine 1977; Ben Hassine 1983), B. boops , Pagellus erythrinus and S. aurata ( Benmansour & Ben Hassine 1997) , Turkey on Diplodus vulgaris ( Öktener & Trilles 2004b) ; it was also reported on Scorpaena scrofa , Serranus scriba , S. cabrilla , Pseudocaranx dentex and Mugil cephalus ( Raibaut et al 1998). In the Adriatic, Radujkovic and Raibaut (1987, 1989) have collected this parasite from Puntazzo puntazzo ( Diplodus puntazzo ).