Abstract / Introduction / Summary:
Two metamorphosed females of Lernaeenicus ramosus Kirtisinghe, 1956 were collected from an areolate grouper, Epinephelus areolatus (Forsskål, 1775), in Kagoshima Bay, an inlet of the western North Pacific Ocean, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. The anterior body of each female was embedded in the host’s musculature, and the trunk protruded externally from the host’s body surface. In Kagoshima Prefecture, L. ramosus was previously reported from a blacktip grouper, Epinepherus fasciatus (Forsskål, 1775), from the Oshima Strait, Amami-oshima Island, and the present collection represents the second record of L. ramosus from the prefecture.
