Two new species of hexabothriid monogeneans from the ginzame Chimaera phantasma and shortspine spurdog Squalus mitsukurii.
Descriptions are given for two new species of hexabothriid monogeneans, one collected from the gills of shortspine spurdog Squalus mitsukurii and the other from the gills of the ginzame Chimaera phantasma in Sagami Bay on the Pacific coast of Japan. Squalonchocotyle mitsukurii n. sp. from Squalus mitsukurii can be distinguished from Squalonchocotyle squali MacCallum, 1931, the most closely related species, by the inwardly curved vagina. Callorhynchocotyle sagamiensis n. sp. from Chimaera phantasma can be distinguished from all the known species of Callorhynchocotyle Suriano & Incorvaia, 1982 by the structure of the cirrus; in the new species, the cirrus is entirely muscular with a widened opening, while in the four known species it comprises a tubular proximal part and a bulbous distal part.
Kitamura
Akiko
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Department of Marine Science and Resources, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Kameino, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, 252-8510, Japan.
Ogawa
Kazuo
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Taniuchi
Toru
T
Hirose
Hitomi
H
D000818:Animals; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000469:parasitology*; D005399:Fishes; D005880:Gills / Q000469:parasitology; D007564:Japan; D010986:Platyhelminths / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013045:Species Specificity; D048250:Squalus / Q000469:parasitology*; D014201:Trematode Infections / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary*