Majimun shirakawai

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ergasilida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Copepoda Infraclassis: Neocopepoda Superordo: Podoplea Ordo: Cyclopoida Subordo: Ergasilida

Familia: Splanchnotrophidae
Genus: Majimun
Species: Majimun shirakawai

Name

• Majimun shirakawai Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2012: figs. 1G, H, 10, 12

Holotype: NSMT–Cr 22250, ♀, ex body cavity of Roboastra luteolineata (Baba) (Nudibranchia: Polyceridae).

Type locality: Off Miyagi Beach, Chatan, Okinawa-jima Island, East China Sea, Japan (26°19'44"N, 127°44'35"E), 6 m depth, 14 June 2010.

Etymology: The new species is named after Mr. Naoki Shirakawa, an expert diver who finds remarkable animals. He collected the nudibranchs infected by the new species.

References

• Uyeno, Daisuke & K. Nagasawa, 2012: Four new species of splanchnotrophid copepods (Poecilostomatoida) parasitic on doridacean nudibranchs (Gastropoda, Opistobranchia) from Japan, with proposition of one new genus. ZooKeys, 247: 1–29. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.247.3698.