Two species of bomolochid copepods (Crustacea) parasitic on marine fishes of Kuwait

摘要

Two species of Bomolochidae (Poecilostomatoida) were found in the gill cavities of marine fishes caught in Kuwait Bay. They are Nothobom-olochus triceros (Bassett-Smith, 1898) from Pampus argenteus (Euphrasen) and Orbitacolax hapalogenyos (Yamaguti & Yamasu, 1959) from Hemirhamphus marginatus (Forsskal). Both species are new to the Persian Gulf. A new key to the 30 species of Nothobomolochus is provided. Nothobomolochus trichiuri Hameed & Kumar, 1988 is a junior synonym of Nothobomolochus trichiuri Pillai & Natarajan, 1977.