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Issue: Vol. 1326 No. 1: 2 Oct. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-10-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1326.1.4
Page range: 37–44
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 2

Hypocreadium toombo n. sp. (Digenea: Lepocreadiidae) in the yellow-spotted triggerfish Pseudobalistes fuscus (Perciformes: Balistidae) and additional lepocreadiids parasitizing fishes from the waters off New Caledonia

Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Équipe Biogéographie Marine Tropicale, Unité Systématique, Adaptation, Évolution (CNRS, UPMC, MNHN, IRD), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, BP A5, 98848 Nouméa Cedex, Nouvelle Calédonie
Platyhelminthes Digenea Lepocreadiidae Hypocreadium toombo n. sp. Balistidae Pseudobalistes fuscus Lobatocreadium exiguum Intusatrium robustum Bodianus perditio Bodianus loxozonus Postlepidapedon secundum Choerodon graphicus Lepidapedoides ang

Abstract

Hypocreadium toombo n. sp. is described from the balistid Pseudobalistes fuscus from the waters off New Caledonia. It is distinguished by a series of characters shared by no other Hypocreadium species. The specimens are always slightly longer than wide, have a distinct anterior notch, have the vitelline fields confluent or nearly so in the forebody and have the terminal ends of the caeca pointing anteriorly. Other lepocreadiid species also recorded from New Caledonian waters are Lobatocreadium exiguum from P. fuscus, Intusatrium robustum from Bodianus perditio and B. loxozonus, Postlepidapedon secundum from Choerodon graphicus and Lepidapedoides angustus from Epinephelus fasciatus.

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