<i>Tachaea chinensis</i> (Isopoda: Corallanidae), an ectoparasite of freshwater shrimps and prawns, from western Japan, with a list of its known collection localities and hosts

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  • Nagasawa Kazuya
    Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University
  • Imai Tadashi
    National Research Institute of Fisheries and Environment of Inland Sea, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency
  • Saito Hidetoshi
    Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University

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  • Tachaea chinensis (Isopoda: Corallanidae), an ectoparasite of freshwater shrimps and prawns, from western Japan, with a list of its known collection localities and hosts

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<p>The corallanid isopod Tachaea chinensis Thielemann, 1910 is a parasite attached on the carapace of freshwater shrimps and prawns. The isopod is reported from Palaemon paucidens De Haan, 1884 (Palaemonidae) at two localities in Kagawa Prefecture (Shikoku) and two localities in Shimane Prefecture (western Honshu), and from Neocaridina sp. (Atyidae) at one locality in Shimane Prefecture, Japan. This represents the first record of T. chinensis from Shikoku. The species is briefly described and illustrated based on non-ovigerous females. Prevalence of T. chinensis in populations of P. paucidens and Neocaridina sp. ranged from 10.7–57.1%, and the intensity of infestation was almost constantly one, which indicates its intra-specific competition on the host carapace. Palaemon paucidens is considered as a preferred host of T. chinensis in Honshu and Shikoku, Japan. Based on the literature published between 1910 and 2018 including this paper, T. chinensis has been reported from 14 nominal and some unidentified species of shrimps and prawns belonging to three atyid genera (Caridina, Neocaridina, and Paratya), two palaemonid genera (Macrobrachium and Palaemon), and one penaeid genus (Penaeus), ranging from temperate (Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu in Japan, and central-eastern China) through subtropical (Okinawa in Japan, and Hong Kong in southeastern China) to tropical (Hainan in southeastern China, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia) regions in East Asia.</p>

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  • Crustacean Research

    Crustacean Research 47 (0), 73-88, 2018-09-28

    Carcinological Society of Japan

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