Pennatula Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 347758

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Arthropoda > Crustacea > Maxillopoda > Copepoda > Neocopepoda > Podoplea > Siphonostomatoida > Pennellidae

Status		unaccepted (synonym)
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name		Pennella Oken, 1815
Rank		Genus
Parent		Pennellidae Burmeister, 1835
Sources		original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] basis of record: Walter, Chad. The world of Copepods. [details] additional source: Oken, L.. 1815. Lehrbuch Der Naturgeschichte. Dritter Theil, Zoologie. Erste Abteilung, Fleischlose Thiere: 1-841 (Register) (1815); Atlas: I-Iv, pls. I-Xvii (1816). [details] additional source: Stebbing, T.R.R., 1905. South African Crustacea. Part III.— Marine Investigations in South Africa 4: 21-­123, Plates 17-26. [details]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Species Pennatula filosa Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Pennella filosa (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Pennatula sagitta Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Pennella sagitta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Link		3x5 C.B. Wilson Taxonomic Card - Pennatula
Note		Homonymy: Linnaeus's Pennatula 1758 is a good name for the cnidarians, as this was used first. This homonym of the copepods was created when they were tacked on just because they kind of looked like the cnidarians. Linnaeus did not have a clue. This name is enshrined in the coelenterate order Pennatulacea, where the genus is still found, unburdened by parasitic copepods. The first of these Linnaean copepod species was Pennatula filosa, taken from the Mediterranean swordfish. The second was Pennatula sagitta, found on the sargassum fish. Subsequent investigators mentioned that Linnaeus’s host notations were about the only useful characteristics he provided (Stebbing 1905). Since Linnaeus’s time, other features have been defined, and both species are valid. Oken (1815), without knowing their true nature, but seeing that these parasites were not as “other” coral-like polyps, proposed the appropriate name Pennella, the “little feather,” for the copepods. Linnaeus’s species names are retained, so that the two species are now Pennella sagitta (Linnaeus, 1758), the type species of Oken's genus, and Pennella filosa (Linnaeus, 1758), both now in the siphonostome family Pennellidae (see Kabata 1979). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:347758
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2008-07-15 11:49:29Z   created   Walter, T. Chad 2008-08-04 10:50:30Z   changed   Walter, T. Chad
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		Citation: Walter, T. Chad (2013). Pennatula Linnaeus, 1758. In: Walter, T.C. & Boxshall, G. (2013). World of Copepods database. Accessed through: Walter, T.C. & Boxshall, G. (2013). World of Copepods database at http://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=347758 on 2013-05-19