In the Great Belt (Danish waters) we found in a water depth around 40 m two male specimens of possibly Entoniscidae. Who is able to identify or can give some identification notes for this paratising isopod species? Or if Entoniscidae is wrong can give the correct family.
perhaps a parasitic copepod? I'm not an expert on this group, so try using Gotto (2004).
There are such elongated copepods like Mytilicola, Rhodinicola , Ascidicola. Mytilicola intestinalis males reaches 8 mm (females 4mm), Ascidicola rosea 4mm and Rhodinicola elongata 4.5mm. Perhaps it is an option to contact Myles O'Reilly (Myles.O'[email protected])?
Hi Ton,
thank you very much for this tip, probably you are right, I'm following a wrong way.
Michael
Hi
Why not ask Jorundur Svavarsson at University of Iceland. He knows many taxons, also Isopoda.
Regards, Halldis Ringvold
Dear Colleagues,
as I already mentioned Ton is absolutely right. I checked the material with the key book on commensal and parasitic copepods by Gotte (1993). The result is, it is very probaly
Rhodinicola elongata Levinsen, 1878
It lives associated with maldanid polychaetes.
Thank you very much again Ton.
Best regards
Michael
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