Parasitic Copepods of Some Antarctic and New Zealand Fishes

This dataset is from a study that was concerned chiefly with parasitic copepods collected from the gills of marine fishes taken in New Zealand and Antarctic waters. A total of 18 copepod species was collected from New Zealand waters. These species represented seven families and nine genera and were collected from 18 families and 19 genera of fish hosts, a total of 621 copepods from 258 fishes. Seven of the New Zealand copepod species and the only two collected from Antarctic fishes. During March 1960, 616 specimens of 35 species of fishes were collected from the marine waters of New Zealand and examined for parasites. Of these, 258 individuals, or 38.6 per cent, representing 21 species were infected with parasitic copepods. From January 1961 to February 1962 and during November and December 1964 a total of 599 specimens of 13 species of fishes were collected from the waters adjacent to the Wilkes and McMurdo Sound stations in the Antarctic. Only 37 individuals, or 6.4 per cent, representing four species were infected with parasitic copepods. Only two species of copepods were found on the Antarctic fishes. Neoscutellidium yeatmani, is described and Clavellodes intermedium (Quidor, 1906) Wilson, 1915 is redescribed. One new locality record is established.本数据集源自一项主要聚焦于从新西兰及南极海域捕获的海水鱼类鳃部采集的寄生桡足类（parasitic copepods）的研究。本次研究从新西兰海域共采集到18种桡足类，它们隶属于7科9属，宿主鱼类涵盖18科19属，总计从258尾宿主鱼类身上采集到621只桡足类个体。其中7种新西兰桡足类与仅从南极鱼类采集到的2种桡足类。 1960年3月，研究人员从新西兰海域采集到35种鱼类共计616尾样本，并对其开展寄生虫检测。其中258尾个体（占比38.6%）感染了寄生桡足类，涉及21个鱼类物种。 1961年1月至1962年2月，以及1964年11月至12月期间，研究人员从南极威尔克斯站与麦克默多湾（McMurdo Sound）周边海域采集到13种鱼类共计599尾样本。其中仅37尾个体（占比6.4%）感染了寄生桡足类，涉及4个鱼类物种。 南极鱼类身上仅发现2种桡足类：对新种Neoscutellidium yeatmani进行了形态描述，并对Clavellodes intermedium (Quidor, 1906) Wilson, 1915开展了重新描述。本研究还确立了1个新的分布记录。