Three species of plagioporine opecoelids (Digenea), including a new genus and two new species, from marine fishes from off the coast of Chile.
Villarrealina peruanus (syn. Pirupalkia queulensis) is described from Cilus gilberti, off the Talcahuano region, Chile. It is considered an opecoelid and is distinguishable by the combination of its extensive uterus, which reaches to the posterior extremity, and the vitellarium restricted to the hindbody. Jerguillicola leonora n. g., n. sp. from Aplodactylus punctatus, off the Talcahuano region, Chile, is distinguished by the uterus reaching into the post-testicular region, the lack of a seminal receptacle, the eggs attached together is strings formed by a matrix, the large cirrus-sac filled mainly with fairly dense connective tissue, a long coiled seminal vesicle and a long coiled ejaculatory duct. Neolebouria georgenascimentoi n. sp. from Pinguipes chilensis and Prolatilus jugularis, off the Talcahuano region, Chile, can be distinguished from its congeners by a its elongate cirrus-sac and oblique entire to weakly lobed testes.
Bray
Rodney A
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Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.
D000818:Animals; D002677:Chile; D005399:Fishes / Q000469:parasitology*; D008386:Marine Biology; D013045:Species Specificity; D014200:Trematoda / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*