New Records of the Marine Turtle Epibiont Balaenophilus umigamecolus (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Balaenophilidae): New Host Records and Possible Implications for Marine Turtle Health

Eric A. Lazo-Wasem; Theodora Pinou; Alejandro Peña De Niz; Melissa A. Salgado; Emily Schenker

doi:10.3374/0079-032X(2007)48[153:NROTMT]2.0.CO;2

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1 April 2007 New Records of the Marine Turtle Epibiont Balaenophilus umigamecolus (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Balaenophilidae): New Host Records and Possible Implications for Marine Turtle Health

Eric A. Lazo-Wasem, Theodora Pinou, Alejandro Peña De Niz, Melissa A. Salgado, Emily Schenker

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Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 48(1):153-156 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3374/0079-032X(2007)48[153:NROTMT]2.0.CO;2

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Balaenophilus umigamecolus are reported for the first time in the eastern Pacific, from the Jalisco coast of western Mexico. Two new hosts are represented: the olive ridley turtle, Lepidochelys olivacea, and the black turtle, Chelonia mydas agassizi. Data indicate a distinct correlation between the presence of B. umigamecolus copepods and Stomatolepas praegustator, barnacles that grow imbedded in turtle skin. This relationship may have implications for marine turtle health.

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Eric A. Lazo-Wasem, Theodora Pinou, Alejandro Peña De Niz, Melissa A. Salgado, and Emily Schenker "New Records of the Marine Turtle Epibiont Balaenophilus umigamecolus (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Balaenophilidae): New Host Records and Possible Implications for Marine Turtle Health," Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 48(1), 153-156, (1 April 2007). https://doi.org/10.3374/0079-032X(2007)48[153:NROTMT]2.0.CO;2

Received: 30 September 2006; Accepted: 1 January 2007; Published: 1 April 2007

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