Podocerus cheloniphilus

Podocerus cheloniphilus

( Chevreux and Guerne, 1888)

( Figs. 3−4 View Figure 3 View Figure 4 )

Cyrtophium chelonophilum Chevreux and Guerne, 1888: 625 View in CoL .

Platophium chelonophilum . — Chevreux and de Guerne, 1893: 445. — Chevreux, 1900: 115, pl. 13, fig. 2; pl. 14, fig. 7.

Podocerus cheloniae View in CoL . — Stebbing, 1906: 701. Podocerus chelonophilus View in CoL . — Stebbing, 1906: 703. —

Chevreux, 1911: 272.— Chevreux and Fage, 1925:

375, fig. 383. — Chevreux, 1935: 130. — Mateus and Alfonso, 1974: 36, figs. 27, 28. — Thomas and Barnard, 1992: 110, figs. 1, 2. — Ruffo, 1993: 675, fig. 462. — Moore, 1995: 253. — Baldinger, 2001: 441, figs. 1–6. — Kilgallen, 2009: 848–850. — Sezgin et al., 2009: 435–436. — Zakhama-Sraieb et al., 2010: 2. — Lazo-Wazem, et al., 2011: 230–232, fig. 6c. — Hughes, 2016: 321.

? Podocerus umigame Yamato, 1992: 281 View in CoL , figs. 1–3. — Ren, 1994: 265, fig. 13. — Ren, 2012: 404, fig. 175.

Material examined. 2 males, Brazil, São Paulo, Ubatuba, Fazenda Beach, MNRJ 029872 View Materials ; 2 females, Brazil, São Paulo, Ubatuba, Fazenda Beach, MNRJ 029873 View Materials ; 1 male, Fazenda Beach, Ubatuba , Brazil, ZUEC CRU 4347 ; 1 female, Fazenda Beach, Ubatuba , Brazil, ZUEC CRU 4346 .

Distribution. North Atlantic Ocean ( Chevreux, 1900; Thomas and Barnard, 1992; Moore, 1995; Lazo-Wazem et al., 2011; Baldinger, 2000; 2001); Mediterranean Sea ( Chevreux and de Guerne, 1888; Sezgin et al., 2009);? South China Sea ( Yamato, 1992) Pacific Ocean ( Kilgallen, 2009; Hughes, 2016); south Atlantic Ocean (present study).

Remarks. Podocerus cheloniphilus is an obligate epibiont of marine turtles, and the general morphology of specimens found on C. caretta from Brazil agrees well with the description provided by Thomas and Barnard (1992). Most of the records of P. cheloniphilus are from the northern Hemisphere, but Hughes (2016) reported the most southerly record of P. cheloniphilus from the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The present study extends the range of P. cheloniphilus to the South Atlantic Ocean.