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WoRMS taxon detailsArgulus dartevellei Brian, 1940
357190 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:357190)
accepted
Species
Brian, A. (1940). Sur quelques argulidés d'Afrique appartenant aux collections du Musée du Congo Belge. [Sur quelques argulidés d'Afrique appartenant aux collections du Musée du Congo Belge.]. <em>Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines.</em> 33(2):77-98, figs.1-32 (15-ii-1940). [details] Available for editors
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Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Argulus dartevellei Brian, 1940. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=357190 on 2025-06-05
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Brian, A. (1940). Sur quelques argulidés d'Afrique appartenant aux collections du Musée du Congo Belge. [Sur quelques argulidés d'Afrique appartenant aux collections du Musée du Congo Belge.]. <em>Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines.</em> 33(2):77-98, figs.1-32 (15-ii-1940). [details] Available for editors [request]Otheradditional source
Fryer, G. (1960). Studies on some parasitic crustaceans on African freshwater fishes, with descriptions of a new copepod of the genus Ergasilus and a new branchiuran of the genus Chonopeltis. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 133(4):629-647, figs. 1-26. (iii-1960). [not 1959].
page(s): 637 [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Cesare, L.C. (1986). Taksonomie, ekologie en morfologie van die genus Argulus Müller, 1785 (Crustacea : Branchiura) in Afrika. [Taxonomy, ecology and morphology of the genus Argulus Müller, 1785 (Crustacea : Branchiura) in Africa]. <em>M.Sc. Thesis, Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, South Africa.</em> 192 pp.[In Afrikaans.]., available online at https://ujcontent.uj.ac.za/esploro/outputs/graduate/Taksonomie-ekologie-en-morfologie-van-die/9911847907691 [details] Available for editors [request]From editor or global species database
Additional information update on the host: Promicrops is a synonymized genus name of groupers (Epinephelidae, or Serranidae, Epinephelinae), now Epinephelus. It seemed strange at first since they are usually marine and obviously other species in the Cesare’s table were freshwater and brackish ones. Starting from Cesare 1986, p. 18: Argulus dartevellei collected on Promicrops distalis by Fryer 1959. The specific epithet distalis seems to have been never used for fishes, so most likely a lapsus calami either in Cesare or Fryer. Ref given p. 188: FRYER, G., 1959. Studies on some parasitic crustaceans on African freshwater fishes, with descriptions of a new copepod of the genus Ergasilus and a new branchiuran of the genus Chonopeltis. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 133 : 629-647 Here second error, the date is 1960, it is in the fascicle 4 published in 1960 like the no3 unlike the nos 1 and 2. In Fryer 1959: p. 637 (Under the section NOTES ON ARGULUS DARTEVELLEI BRIAN AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE MALE p. 636) “I found two males and a female on a large specimen of Promicrops distalis Roux and Calligan captured in the R. Kouilou in French Equatorial Africa about half a mile from the sea, in water which was quite fresh. Dr Roux informs me that P. distalis is a marine fish which enters rivers at certain times of the year. The name error comes from Fryer. Third error, it is Collignon, not Calligan. In Roux and Collignon, 1954: The correct name is Promicrops ditobo Roux & Collignon, 1954 (AphiaID: 311424). Roux, C. and J. Collignon 1954 [ref. 12470] Description d'une nouvelle espèce de poisson, de la famille des Serranidae, observée sur les côtes de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française: Promicrops ditobo. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Série 2) v. 26 (no. 4): 473-475. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54823270 It is now a synonym of Epinephelus itajara (Lichtenstein 1822). This is one of the 3 goliath or giant groupers, previously in the (sub)genus Promicrops, reaching 2,5 meters long or more. This one is the Atlantic one (I did not know they could enter the estuaries as much inland) – the Atlantic Goliath grouper, the 2 other ones are E. lanceolatus in Indo-Pacific – the Giant grouper, and E. quinquefasciatus in Tropical Eastern Pacific - the Pacific Goliath grouper. [details] |
