Two new species of Bothriocephalus Rudolphi, 1808 (Cestoda: Bothriocephalidea) from marine fish off Australia and New Caledonia.
Two new species of bothriocephalidean tapeworms, Bothriocephalus australis n. sp. from the flatheads Platycephalus bassensis Cuvier (type host) and P. aurimaculatus Knapp off southern Australia and B. celineae n. sp. from a hybrid serranid Cephalopholis aurantia (Val.) x C. spiloparaea (Val.) from off New Caledonia, are described. B. australis is unique in the possession of the combination of the three characters: an elongate, obliquely situated cirrus-sac; a wide genital atrium surrounded by chromophilic cells; and a well-developed apical disc. B. celineae is typified by the presence of a low number of testes per segment (14-26), forming one or two incomplete longitudinal bands on each side of segment, and the small size of the strobila (total length 24 mm) which consists of less than 100 segments.
Kuchta
Roman
R
Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic & Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic. krttek@yahoo.com
Scholz
Tomás
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Justine
Jean-Lou
JL
D000818:Animals; D001315:Australia; D001492:Bass / Q000469:parasitology; D002589:Cestoda / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D043344:Chordata / Q000469:parasitology*; D008297:Male; D009510:New Caledonia; D013737:Testis / Q000033:anatomy & histology