title: Revision of the amphiamerican Neotetraonchus Bravo-Hollis, 1968 (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae), with a description of N. vegrandis n. sp. from the gill lamellae of the blue sea catfish Ariopsis guatemalensis (Siluriformes: Ariidae) off the Pacific Coast of Mexico.
abstract: Neotetraonchus Bravo-Hollis, 1968 is revised and reassigned to the Dactylogyridae Bychowsky, 1933 based on examinations of specimens representing four species from the gill lamellae of sea catfishes (Ariidae). The monotypic Neotetraonchidae Bravo-Hollis, 1968 is placed in synonymy with the Dactylogyridae. Neotetraonchus bychowskyi Bravo-Hollis, 1968 (type-species), is redescribed from the tete sea catfish Ariopsis seemanni (Günther) (type-host) in the eastern Pacific Ocean off Panama (new geographical record). Neotetraonchus vegrandis n. sp. is described from the blue sea catfish A. guatemalensis (Günther) off the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Neotetraonchus bravohollisae Paperna, 1977 is redescribed from the hardhead sea catfish A. felis (L.) in the Gulf of Mexico off the Yucatan Peninsula. Neotetraonchus felis (Hargis, 1955) Paperna, 1977 is redescribed from A. felis in the Gulf of Mexico off Mississippi and the Yucatan Peninsula (new geographical record). Morphological similarities between species of Neotetraonchus suggest the likely presence of geminate species pairs flanking the Isthmus of Panama.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Campus Box 8090, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83209, USA. kritdela@isu.edu
authors.forename: Delane C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Kritsky
authors.forename: Edgar F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Mendoza-Franco
authors.forename: Stephen A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Bullard
authors.forename: Victor M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Vidal-Martínez
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001267:Atlantic Ocean; D002397:Catfishes / Q000469:parasitology*; D002590:Cestode Infections / Q000662:veterinary*; D005880:Gills / Q000469:parasitology*; D008800:Mexico; D008853:Microscopy / Q000379:methods; D010140:Pacific Ocean; D010176:Panama; D010986:Platyhelminths / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification*