Order Mysida

This order is represented by one species Rhopalophthalmus tattersallae (Grabe, 1989) and one unidentified species of the genus Gastrosaccus (Al-Yamani et al., 2012).

References

Al-Yamani, F.Y., Skryabin, V., Boltachova, N., Revkov, N., Makarov, M., Grinstov, V. and Kolesnikova, E. (2012). Illustrated Atlas on the Zoobenthos of Kuwait, pp 383. Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research.

Grabe, S.A. (1989). ‘Some aspects of the biology of Rhopalophthalmus tattersallae Pillai, 1961 (Crustacea, Mysidacea) and extension of range into the Khor-Al-Sabiya, Kuwait (Arabian Gulf)

’. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 102:726-731.

Jones, D.A. (1986). A field guide to the sea shores of Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf, pp 192. University of Kuwait, Blandford Press, Poole.

The Hexanauplia is a class of crustaceans that includes Copepoda, Tantulocarida, acorn barnacle and the Thecostraca. Many species of copepoda are external parasites on fishes. Fifty nine species of copepods were reported from Kuwait (Table 26). Twenty-three species of parasitic Copepoda were reported on marine fishes in Kuwait (Ho &

Sey 1996) and by Al-Yamani & Prusova (2003).

Ho & Kim (1997 & 2001) and Ho et al. (1999) described several new species of coppods parasitizing fishes in kuwait. Kabata & Tareen (1984) also described new species for Kuwait including, Caligus kuwaitensis.

Table 26: Hexanauplia reported from Kuwait.

Order Family Species Fish host Reference

Siphonostomatoida Caligidae Caligus kuwaitensis Plotossus anguillaris Kabata & Tareen (1984) Hatschekidae Hatschekia seyi Heniochus acuminatus Ho & Kim (2001)

Hatschekia nodosa Lutjanus coccineus Ho & Kim (2001) Hatschekia tanysoma Lutjanus fulviflamma Ho & Kim (2001) Lernanthropidae Lernanthropus cadenati Acanthopagrus berda Ho & Sey (1996) Anuretes anomalus Plectorhynchus cinctus Ho & Sey (1996) Lernaeopodidae Sparidicola lithognathi Acanthopagrus latus Kabata & Tareen (1987)

Thysanote alternans Polynemus sextarius Cyclopoida Bomolochidae Nothobomolochus triceros

(Bassett-Smith, 1898) Pampus argenteus Ho et al. (2000) Orbitacolax hapalogenyos

(Yamaguti & Yamasu, 1959)

Hemirhamphus

marginatus Ho et al. (2000) Taeniacanthidae Irodes kuwaitensis Upeneus sulpureus Ho et al. (1999) Chondracanthidae Berea clava Pseudorhombus arsius Ho & Sey (1997)

Oithonidae Oithona fallax Michel & Herring (1984)

Oithona hamata Michel & Herring (1984)

Clausidiidae Saphirella sp. Michel & Herring (1984)

Oncaeidae Triconia conifera Michel & Herring (1984)

Conaea sp. Michel & Herring (1984)

Corycaeidae Corycaeus sp. Michel & Herring (1984)

Sapphirinidae Sapphirina sp. Michel & Herring (1984)

Copilia sp. Michel & Herring (1984)

Calanoida Calanidae Canthocalanus pauper Michel & Herring (1984) Eucalanidae Subeucalanus monachus Michel & Herring (1984)

Subeucalanus flemingeri Prusova et al. (2001)

Order Family Species Fish host Reference Paracalanus aculeatus Michel & Herring (1984) Parvocalanus crassirostris Michel & Herring (1984)

Bestiolina arabica Ali et al. (2007)

Centropagidae Centropages furcatus Michel & Herring (1984)

Centropages orsinii Michel & Herring (1984)

Centropages tenuiremis Michel & Herring (1984) Pseudodiaptomidae Pseudodiaptomus marinus Michel & Herring (1984)

Temoridae Temora discaudata Michel & Herring (1984)

Temora turbinata Michel & Herring (1984)

Candaciidae Candacia bradyi Michel & Herring (1984)

Pontellidae Calanopia elliptica Michel & Herring (1984)

Calanopia minor Michel & Herring (1984)

Labidocera acutifrons Michel & Herring (1984)

Labidocera kroyeri Michel & Herring (1984)

Labidocera acuta Michel & Herring (1984)

Labidocera minuta Michel & Herring (1984)

Labidocera kuwaitiana Prusova & Al-Yamani, 2014

Pontella sp. Michel & Herring (1984)

Pontellina sp. Michel & Herring (1984)

Pontellopsis herdmani Michel & Herring (1984)

Acartiidae Acartia bispinosa Michel & Herring (1984)

Acartia pacifica Michel & Herring (1984)

Acartia (Acanthacartia)

pietschmani Michel & Herring (1984)

Acartia faoensis Ali et al. 2009

Tortanidae Tortanus forcipatus Michel & Herring (1984) Tortanus (Atortus)

recticaudus Michel & Herring (1984)

Canuelloida Longipediidae Longipedia sp. Michel & Herring (1984) Ectinosomatidae Microsetella rosea Michel & Herring (1984) Macrosetella gracilis Michel & Herring (1984) Tachidiidae Euterpina acutifrons Michel & Herring (1984) Peltidiidae Clytemnestra scutellata Michel & Herring (1984) Monstrilloida Monstrillidae Cymbasoma longispinosum Michel & Herring (1984)

Pleopis polyphemoides Sididae Penilia avirostris Sessilia Balanidae Amphibalanus amphitrite

A single species of class Branchiopoda (Order Onychopoda, Family Podonidae), Pseudevadne terg-estina has been reported from Kuwait.

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Ho, J.-S. and Sey, O. (1997). ‘New species of Berea (Copepoda, Chondracanthidae) parasitic on a flounder from Kuwait’. Pakistan Journal of Marine Sciences 6: 53-57.

Ho, J.-S., Kim, I.-Hoi. and Sey, O. (1999). ‘New species of Irodes (Copepoda, Taeniacanthidae) parasit-ic on the goatfish from Kuwait, with a key to the species of Irodes’. Pakistan Journal of Marine Sciences 82:123-129.

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Ho, J.-S. and I.-Hoi. (2001). ‘New species of Hatschekia Poche, 1902 (Copepoda: Hatschekiidae) par-asitic on marine fishes of Kuwait’. Systematic Parasitology 49: 73–79.

Kabata, Z. and Tareen, I.U. (1984). ‘Description of Caligus kuwaitensis n.sp. (Copepoda: Siphono-stomatoida) with comments on Caligus antennatus Boxshall and Gurney, 1980’. Systematic Parasitology 6:57-62. doi.org/10.1007/BF00752617

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4.4 Subphylum Hexapoda