A redescription of Pseudobacciger harengulae (Yamaguti, 1938) (Digenea: Faustulidae) from Sprattus sprattus phalericus (Risso) and Engraulis encrasicholus ponticus Alexandrov off the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, with a review of the genus Pseudobacciger Nahhas & Cable, 1964.
Pseudobacciger harengulae is recorded from the caeca of Sprattus sprattus phalericus and Engraulis encrasicholus ponticus (new host records) in the Black Sea (new geographical record) off the Bulgarian coast. This is the first record of a species of the genus Pseudobacciger in the Black Sea. An illustrated redescription on the basis of the Bulgarian material is presented. The specimens from the two hosts differ from one another in the shape of the arms of the excretory vesicle. A review of Pseudobacciger is presented; for each of the three species of the genus, data on their hosts, distribution, morphology and life-cycle (if known) are summarised.
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Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London, UK.
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D000818:Animals; D002031:Bulgaria; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000469:parasitology*; D005399:Fishes / Q000469:parasitology*; D012623:Seawater; D014200:Trematoda / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D014201:Trematode Infections / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary*