New zealand parasitic copepoda; genus caligus müller, 1785 (siphonostomatoida: Caligidae)

Abstract

This paper provides: a key to the species of New Zealand Caligus; a description of the male and female of Caligus kahawai n. sp., the female of C. longicaudatus Brady, 1899, and a redescription offemaleC. lalandei Barnard, 1948; thefirstrecords from New Zealand of C. bonito Wilson, 1905, and C. elongatus Nordmann, 1832; and further records of C.aesopus Wilson, 1921, C. brevis Shiino, 1954, C. buechlerae Hewitt, 1964, C. coryphaenae Steenstrup and Liitken, 1861, and C. pelamydis Krpyer, 1863. © Crown 1988.