First record of Caligusdussumieri Rangnekar, 1957 (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida, Caligidae) from Malaysia, with notes on caligids found from Malaysia and on host-specificity of caligids on lutjanid fishes

Norshida Ismail; Yusuke Nishida; Susumu Ohtsuka; Geoff Boxshall; James P Bernot

doi:10.3897/BDJ.12.e116598

First record of Caligusdussumieri Rangnekar, 1957 (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida, Caligidae) from Malaysia, with notes on caligids found from Malaysia and on host-specificity of caligids on lutjanid fishes

Biodivers Data J. 2024 Feb 20:12:e116598. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e116598. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Norshida Ismail¹, Yusuke Nishida², Susumu Ohtsuka^{3

2}, Geoff Boxshall⁴, James P Bernot^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Bioresources and Food Industry, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, 22200, Besut, Terengganu, Malaysia Faculty of Bioresources and Food Industry, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, 22200, Besut Terengganu Malaysia.
² Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, 1-4-4 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8528, Hiroshima, Japan Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, 1-4-4 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8528 Hiroshima Japan.
³ Blue Innovation Division, Seto Inland Sea Carbon Neutral Research Center, 5-8-1 Minato-machi, Takehara, 725-0024, Hiroshima, Japan Blue Innovation Division, Seto Inland Sea Carbon Neutral Research Center, 5-8-1 Minato-machi, Takehara, 725-0024 Hiroshima Japan.
⁴ Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK., London, United Kingdom Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. London United Kingdom.
⁵ Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 20560, Washington DC, United States of America Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 20560 Washington DC United States of America.
⁶ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 06269, Connecticut, United States of America Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 06269 Connecticut United States of America.

Abstract

Background: In total, 14 species of Caligus have been reported from Malaysia. Amongst them, four species are reported from lutjanid fishes.

New information: Caligusdussumieri Rangnekar, 1957 is reported from Malabar snapper, Lutjanusmalabaricus, purchased from a local wet market in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia. This is the first record of this species in Malaysia and it is only the second species assigned to the bonito-group of the genus Caligus to be reported from Malaysia. A key to species of the bonito-group is presented herein. The list of caligids infecting lutjanid fishes and the geographical distributions plus the known hosts of members of the bonito-group of Caligus are discussed.

Keywords: Caligidae; Lutjanidae; bonito-species group; geographic distribution; host list; identification key; sea lice.

Norshida Ismail, Yusuke Nishida, Susumu Ohtsuka, Geoff Boxshall, James P. Bernot.

Grants and funding

This study was supported by a collaborative grant SRGS/2021/SRGS-IC/04 from Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia (awarded to NI) and grants-in-aid of the JSPS (KAKENHI, No. 19H03032, awarded to S.O.; bilateral partnership program, No. JPJSBP120209924 awarded to S.O.).