title: Species of Trifoliovarium yamaguti, 1940 (digenea: lecithasteridae) from australian waters, with a description of T. draconis n. sp. and a cladistic study of the subfamily Trifoliovariinae Yamaguti, 1958.
abstract: Three species of Trifoliovarium are described from marine fishes from Moreton Bay, Queensland: T. triacanthi (Parukhin, 1964) n. comb. (syns Hysterolecitha triacanthi Parukhin, 1964; T. triacanthi Bilqees, 1973; T. triacanthusi Gupta & Ahmad, 1976) from Tripodichthys angustifrons; T. ovarilobulus (Wang, 1989) n. comb. (syn. Hysterolecithia [sic] ovarilobuls) from Paramonacanthus japonicus and Pelates quadrilineatus: and T. draconis n. sp. from Callionymus sublaevis and C. belcheri. A list of the species of the subfamily Trifoliovariinae is given along with a key. A cladistic study of the subfamily based on 23 characters is presented, the results of which indicate the monophyly of the genus Assitrema and the paraphyly of Trifoliovarium.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, UK.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Bray
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Cribb
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001315:Australia; D005399:Fishes / Q000469:parasitology*; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D014200:Trematoda / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*