Digeneans of fishes from the Adriatic Sea with a description of Lecithaster atherinae n. sp. from Atherina (Hepsetia) boyeri.
A collection of whole mount preparations of digeneans was studied. The parasites were collected from several species of fishes caught in a fishing area of the South Adriatic Sea. A host-parasite list is given. Twenty species of fish were analysed and twenty-seven species of digeneans were found, twenty of which had previously been described in the same host, and six of which were observed in new hosts and/or localities. One digenean, hitherto undescribed, is illustrated in this paper and described as Lecithaster atherinae n.sp. The new species can be distinguished from L. bombayensis by the testes not being lobed; from L. extralobus by having four rather than five ovarian lobes; from L. indicus and L. maeoticus by the ovarian lobes not being finger-like; from L. leiostomi by having definitely smaller eggs.
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Istituto di Parassitologia, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italia.
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D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D005399:Fishes / Q000469:parasitology*; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D014200:Trematoda / Q000033:anatomy & histology*