title: Systematic status of Rhabdochona leucaspii Kritscher, 1979 (Nematoda: Rhabdochonidae).
abstract: Reexamination of the male holotype of the rhabdochonid nematode Rhabdochona leucaspii Kritscher, 1979, originally described from the intestine of the cyprinid fish Leucaspius prosperi [= Ladigesocypris ghigii (Gianferrari)] from Rhodes Island, Greece, confirmed its morphological and biometrical identity with Rhabdochona denudata (Dujardin, 1845), a common and widespread parasite of cyprinids and some other fishes in palaearctic Eurasia. Consequently, R. leucaspii is considered a junior synonym of R. denudata.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branisovská 31, 370 05 Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic. moravec@paru.cas.cz
authors.forename: Frantisek
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Moravec
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000469:parasitology; D005399:Fishes / Q000469:parasitology*; D008297:Male; D009348:Nematoda / Q000145:classification*; D009349:Nematode Infections / Q000469:parasitology