{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Annals of the South African Museum - Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum (1973) (18227557000).jpg | taxon = Peniculisa | authority = Wilson, 1917<ref name="Wilson 1917"/> }}
'''''Peniculisa''''' is a genus of marine parasitic copepods in the family Pennellidae.<ref name=WoRMS/>
==Biology== Organisms from this genus are often found attached to the bodies and fins of fishes in the South Pacific and Indian oceans.<ref name="Uyeno2010">{{cite journal |author=Daisuke Uyeno |author2=Kazuya Nagasawa |name-list-style=amp |year=2010 |title=Four new species of ''Peniculisa'' Wilson, 1917 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Pennellidae) parasitic on coastal marine fishes in Japanese waters |journal=Journal of Parasitology |volume=96 |issue=4 |pages=689–702 |pmid=20496962 |jstor=40802601 |doi=10.1645/ge-2395.1|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Chandran1994">{{cite journal |author=A. Chandran |author2=P. Natarajan |name-list-style=amp |year=1994 |title=Heavy infection of ''Diodon hystrix'' by the copepod ''Peniculisa wilsoni'' (Siphonostomatoida, Pennellidae) |journal=Journal of Fish Biology |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=167–168 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8649.1994.tb01295.x}}</ref> Individual fishes have been reported to harbor hundreds of ''Peniculisa wilsoni'' parasites.<ref name="Chandran1994"/><ref name= "Chandran1991">{{cite journal |author=A. Chandran |author2=P. Natarajan |name-list-style=amp |year=1991 |title=Record of new hosts for ''Peniculisa wilsoni'' Radhakrishnan, 1977 (Copepoda, Pennellidae) |journal=Crustaceana |volume=61 |issue=1 |pages=107–108 |doi=10.1163/156854091X00605}}</ref> Infection intensity is rarely cited for other ''Peniculisa'' species. ''Peniculisa'' parasitic infections tend to be limited to tetraodontiform and pomacentrid fishes.<ref name="Uyeno2010"/>
==Taxonomy== There are nine recognized species of ''Peniculisa'':<ref name=WoRMS/> *''Peniculisa bellwoodi'' <small>Boxshall, 1989</small> – parasite of ''Pomacentrus amboinensis''<ref name= "Boxshall1989">{{cite journal |author=Geoffrey A. Boxshall |year=1989 |title=Parasitic copepods of fishes: a new genus of the Hatschekiidae from New Caledonia, and new records of the Pennellidae, Sphyriidae and Lernanthropidae from the South Atlantic and South Pacific |journal=Systematic Parasitology |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=201–222 |doi=10.1007/BF00009746|s2cid=20948353 }}</ref> *''Peniculisa bicaudata'' <small>Shiino, 1956</small> *''Peniculisa crassa'' <small>Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010</small> – parasite of ''Lactoria fornasini''<ref name="Uyeno2010"/> *''Peniculisa elongata'' <small>Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010</small> – parasite of ''Ostracion cubicus''<ref name="Uyeno2010"/> *''Peniculisa furcata'' <small>Krøyer, 1863</small> – parasite of ''Paramonacanthus frenatus'' (Peters, 1855), reported as syn. ''Paramonacanthus barnardi''<ref>{{cite journal |author=Brian Kensley |author2=John R. Grindley |name-list-style=amp |year=1973 |title=South African parasitic Copepoda |journal=Annals of the South African Museum |volume=62 |pages=69–130}}</ref> *''Peniculisa ohirugi'' <small>Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010</small> – parasite of ''Pomacentrus nagasakiensis''<ref name="Uyeno2010"/> *''Peniculisa shiinoi'' <small>Izawa, 1965</small> – parasite of ''Canthigaster rivulata''<ref name="Izawa1997">{{cite journal |author=Kunihiko Izawa |year=1997 |title=The copepodid of ''Peniculisa shiinoi'' Izawa, 1965 (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida, Pennellidae), a single free-swimming larval stage of the species |journal=Crustaceana |volume=70 |issue=8 |pages=911–919 |doi= 10.1163/156854097X00537}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Kunihiko Izawa |year=1965 |title=A new parasitic copepod of the genus ''Peniculisa'' Wilson from Seto, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan |journal=Report of the Faculty of Fisheries, Prefectural University of Mie |volume=5 |pages=365–374}}</ref> *''Peniculisa uchinah'' <small>Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2010</small> – parasite of ''Sufflamen fraenatum'', ''Balistoides conspicillum'', ''Rhinecanthus aculeatus'', ''Sufflamen bursa'', ''Sufflamen chrysopterum'' and ''Pervagor melanocephalus''<ref name="Uyeno2010"/> *''Peniculisa wilsoni'' <small>Radhakrishnan, 1977</small> – parasite of ''Diodon hystrix'',<ref>{{cite journal |author=S. Radhakrishnan |year=1977 |title=Description of a new species of ''Peniculisa'' including its immature stages |journal=Hydrobiologia |volume=52 |issue=2–3 |pages=251–255 |doi=10.1007/BF00036450|s2cid=10002464 }}</ref> ''Arothron immaculatus'', ''Arothron hispidus'' and ''Diodon holocanthus''<ref name="Chandran1991"/>
==References== {{Reflist|32em|refs= <ref name="Wilson 1917">{{cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=Charles Branch |title=North American parasitic copepods belonging to the Lernaeidae with a revision of the entire family |journal=Proceedings of the United States National Museum |date=1917 |volume=53 |issue=2194 |pages=1–150 |doi=10.5479/si.00963801.53-2194.1 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
<ref name=WoRMS>{{cite WoRMS|year=2021 |title=''Peniculisa'' Wilson C.B., 1917 |id=347757 |access-date=25 August 2021 |db=copepoda}}</ref> }} {{Taxonbar|from=Q18588951}}
Category:Siphonostomatoida Category:Copepod genera Category:Parasitic animals of fish