Gyge branchialis Cornalia & Panceri, 1861

Gyge branchialis Cornalia & Panceri, 1861 View in CoL

Gyge branchialis Cornalia & Panceri, 1861: 90–111 View in CoL , pls. 1, 2 ( Italy, infesting Upogebia pusilla (Petagna, 1792)) View in CoL ; Boyko et al., 2017: 262–264 View Cited Treatment (comprehensive synonymy through 2016); Mortelmans et al., 2017: 145–146 (mention); Artüz, 2018: 499 (mention); Dairain et al., 2018b: 47, 52, 56 (Arcachon Bay, France, infesting Upogebia cf. pusilla View in CoL ); Dairain et al., 2018a: 88–89 (Arcachon Bay, France, infesting Upogebia cf. pusilla View in CoL ); Corral et al., 2019: 74 (mention); Dairain et al., 2019a: 206, 209 (mention); Dairain et al., 2019b: 364–367 (Arcachon Bay, France, infesting Upogebia cf. pusilla View in CoL ); Dairain et al., 2019c: 320, 321, 324, 325, 326, 328–330 (Arcachon Bay, France, infesting Upogebia cf. pusilla View in CoL ); Pillay, 2019: 64 (mention). Pascal et al., 2020: 2193, 2200–2201 (Arcachon Bay, France, infesting Upogebia pusilla View in CoL ); Bortolini Rosales et al., 2021: 256 (mention); Dumbauld et al., 2021: 1008 (mention); Richard et al., 2021: 749 (mention); Causon et al., 2022: 777 (mention); Dairain et al., 2024: e10400 (mention); De Grave & Boyko, 2024: 16 (mention); Gozlan et al., 2024: 100250 (mention).

Material Examined: “ohne Fundort” (without location): Ovigerous female ( 11.3 mm) ( SMF 62934), infesting left branchial chamber of female Upogebia pusilla (Petagna, 1792) ( 16.1 mm CL), mature female ( 9.3 mm) ( SMF 62935) with epicaridium larvae, mature male ( 3.1 mm), infesting left branchial chamber of female U. pusilla ( 16.6 mm CL), ovigerous female (7.0 mm), mature male ( 2.7 mm) ( SMF 62936), infesting right branchial chamber of U. pusilla ( 11.3 mm CL), mature female ( 9.6 mm) with epicaridium larvae, mature male (3.0 mm) ( SMF 62937), infesting left branchial chamber of female U. pusilla ( 14.3 mm CL), mature female ( 9.7 mm) with epicaridium larvae, mature male ( 3.9 mm) ( SMF 62938), infesting left branchial chamber of female U. pusilla (15.0 mm CL), ovigerous female ( 8.6 mm), mature male ( 2.4 mm) ( SMF 62939), infesting right branchial chamber of female U. pusilla ( 13.3 mm CL), mature female ( 9.1 mm) ( SMF 62940) from unknown host (loose in jar), mature female ( 9.6 mm) with epicaridium larvae, mature male ( 3.4 mm) ( SMF 62941), infesting right branchial chamber of female U. pusilla ( 14.3 mm CL), ovigerous female ( 9.7 mm), mature male ( 3.1 mm) ( SMF 62942), infesting left branchial chamber of female U. pusilla (15.0 mm CL), mature female ( 10.1 mm), mature male ( 3.1 mm) ( SMF 62943), infesting right branchial chamber of female U. pusilla ( 16.1 mm CL), mature female ( 7.6 mm) with epicaridium larvae, mature male ( 2.7 mm) ( SMF 62944), infesting right branchial chamber of female U. pusilla ( 13.6 mm CL), mature female (7.0 mm) with epicaridium larvae, mature male ( 2.6 mm) ( SMF 62945), infesting right branchial chamber of female U. pusilla ( 11.7 mm CL) ( SMF 5069).

Hosts: Upogebia deltaura (Leach, 1816) , U. pusilla (Petagna, 1792) , U. stellata (Montagu, 1808) , and U. tipica (Nardo, 1869) (see Boyko et al. 2017).

Remarks: Although the material examined is without locality data, U. pusilla is widely distributed in the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and the Black Sea. SMF 5069 contains nine male ( 11.7–17.4 mm CL), 17 female ( 11.3–17.3 mm CL), and 10 ovigerous female (12.4–16.0 mm CL) U. pusilla ; no mention was made of any parasite in this lot by Sakai (2006: 53).