title: Two new hemiurine species (Digenea: Hemiuridae) from Spratelloides robustus Ogilby (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae) off south-western Australia and records of Parahemiurus merus (Linton, 1910) from Australian and New Caledonian waters.
abstract: Two new species of hemiurine hemiurid are described from Spratelloides robustus off Woodman Point in southern Western Australia. Hemiurus lignator n. sp. differs from its congeners by a combination of similar-sized suckers, long sinus-sac, tandem testes, relatively elongate shape and unthickened seminal vesicle wall. Parahemiurus xylokopos n. sp. differs from its congeners in a combination of its squat form, its distinctly lobed vitellarium and the proximity of the gonads to the ventral sucker. P. merus (Linton, 1910) is reported from Acanthopagrus australis, Pomatomus saltatrix and Trachinotus coppingeri off northern New South Wales, Caranx sexfasciatus, Scorpis lineolata, Siganus nebulosus, Thunnus tonggol and T. coppingeri off southern Queensland, Cephalopholis boenak and Euthynnus affinis off Heron Island, southern Great Barrier Reef, P. saltatrix off southern Western Australia and Priacanthus hamrur off New Caledonia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.
authors.forename: Rodney A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Bray
authors.forename: Thomas H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Cribb
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005399:Fishes / Q000469:parasitology*; D009510:New Caledonia; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D013045:Species Specificity; D014200:Trematoda / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014904:Western Australia