Copepoda Associated with the Scleractinian Coral Galaxea in the Indo-Pacific

Abstract

Eight copepods associated with the shallow-water, Indo-Pacific coral Galaxea are described: Cyclopoida (Cyclopinidae) - Pterinopsyllus stirpipes, new species; Poecilostomatoida (Anchimolgidae) - Anchimolgus nasutus, new species, A. compressus, new species, A. moluccanus, new species; Siphonostomatoida (Asterocheridae) - Hetairosyna galaxeae, new species, H. wedensis, new species, Hetairosynopsis bucculentus, new genus, new species, and Madacheres serratulus, new genus, new species. Keys to females of Anchimolgus and Hetairosyna and new records for six other previously known copepods from Galaxea are provided. Fifteen species of copepods are now known to be associated with Galaxea.