A new species of Podocotyloides Yamaguti, 1934 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from a Western Australian temperate marine fish.
A new species of Podocotyloides is described from Sillago bassensis caught off the coast of Western Australia. This is the second report of a species of this genus from Australian waters but the first of a new species. P. victori n. sp. is one of four species whose vitelline follicles extend into the forebody. It is distinguished from the other three species with vitelline follicles in the forebody by its relatively shorter forebody, smaller eggs and bipartite seminal vesicle. Pedunculotrema Fischthal & Thomas, 1970 is reduced to synonymy with Podocotyloides Yamaguti, 1934.
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Thelma O
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Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia.
D000818:Animals; D005399:Fishes / Q000469:parasitology*; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D010986:Platyhelminths / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D013045:Species Specificity; D014904:Western Australia