Redescription of parabrachiella bera (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Lernaeopodidae) parasitic on parajulis poecilepterus (actinopterygii: Perciformes: Labridae) from Korea

Abstract

Parabrachiella bera (Yamaguti, 1939) is redescribed based on newly collected material from multicolorfin rainbowfish, Parajulis poecilopterus, landed at Wando fishery port on the southern coast of Korea. Although some differences were observed between the original description and the specimens examined in this study, these differences do not warrant a change in the taxonomic status of this species. Parabrachiella bera bears some resemblance to Parabrachiella incurva Shiino, 1956, but differs from it in details of the trunk and genital processes. © 2014 The Korean Society of Fisheries and Aquatic Science.