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Issue: Vol. 457 No. 1: 9 Mar. 2004
Type: Article
Published: 2004-03-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.457.1.1
Page range: 1–8
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 3

Stephanostomum tantabiddii n. sp. (Digenea: Acanthocolpidae) from Carangoides fulvoguttatus (Forsskal, 1775) (Perciformes: Carangidae) from Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia

Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Centre for Marine Studies and Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4074, Australia
Platyhelminthes Stephanostomum tantabiddii n. sp. Acanthocolpidae Digenea Carangoides fulvoguttatus Carangidae Perciformes Ningaloo Coral Reef Western Australia

Abstract

A new species, Stephanostomum tantabiddii n. sp., is described from the yellowspotted trevally Carangoides fulvoguttatus from Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. It has 38 45 circum-oral spines and the vitellarium reaches to no less than 17% of the hindbody length from the ventral sucker. It differs from other species of Stephanostomum with these characteristics by various combinations of the ventral hiatus of the circum-oral spine rows, the relatively long pars prostatica and short ejaculatory duct, the elongate body and the wide gaps between the gonads.

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