title: Opecoelidae (Digenea) from western Mediterranean fishes: three rare species.
abstract: Three little-known opecoelid digeneans from marine fishes off Corsica, France, are redescribed and their relationships discussed. Plagioporus novella Maillard & Lambert, 1978 from Conger conger is transferred to Podocotyle as P. novella (Maillard & Lambert, 1978) n. comb. The new combinations Podocotyle tohei (Yamaguti, 1970) and P. congeri (Yamaguti, 1970) are formed for species originally assigned to Plagioporus. Podocotyle temensis Fischthal & Thomas, 1970 from Epinephelus guaza is redescribed and compared with the other Podocotyle species reported from the Mediterranean. A third species, Pseudopecoeloides chloroscombri (Fischthal & Thomas, 1970) n. comb. (was Podocotyloides), is redescribed from three Trachurus species and a key to the species of this Pseudopecoeloides is given.
authors.affiliation: Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille, UMR 6540 CNRS, DIMAR, Campus Universitaire de Luminy, Case 901, 13288 Marseille Cédex 9, France.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bartoli
authors.forename: Rodney A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Bray
authors.forename: David I
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Gibson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D005399:Fishes / Q000469:parasitology*; D008297:Male; D008522:Mediterranean Sea; D010986:Platyhelminths / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013045:Species Specificity