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Pennella balaenopterae Koren & Danielssen, 1877 
AphiaID: 157787

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Maxillopoda (Class) > Copepoda (Subclass) > Neocopepoda (Infraclass) > Podoplea (Superorder) > Siphonostomatoida (Order) > Pennellidae (Family) > Pennella (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (spelling)
Record
status
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Accepted name  Pennella balaenoptera Koren & Danielssen, 1877
Rank Species
Parent Pennella Oken, 1815
Source  basis of record: Hogans, W.E.. 1995. Parasitic Copepoda in the collection of the Atlantic Reference Centre, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2028:1-6. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Feedingtypes  adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804 [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828 [details]
adult: parasitic: ectoparasitic on Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Copepod Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Northwestern Atlantic [details]

Habitat: parasitic species (host: e.g. Balaenoptera acutorostrata, Minke whale) [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157787
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2005-05-24 07:32:08Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-06-30 11:19:04Z  checked  Walter, T. Chad
  
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  Citation: Walter, T. Chad (2013). Pennella balaenopterae Koren & Danielssen, 1877. In: Walter, T.C. & Boxshall, G. (2013). World of Copepods database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157787 on 2013-06-19
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