title: Bucephaline digeneans (Bucephalidae) in Sphyraena putnamae Jordan & Seale (Sphyraenidae) from the lagoon off New Caledonia.
abstract: Three species of bucephaline bucephalids are described from Sphyraena putnamae Jordan & Seale and distinguished from related forms using visual keys. Rhipidocotyle khalili Nagaty, 1937 is illustrated and measurements given. Rhipidocotyle bartolii n. sp. [syns R. longicirrus (Nagaty, 1937) of Bartoli & Bray (2005); and possibly Bucephalopsis arcuatus (Linton, 1900) of Manter (1940)] differs from R. longicirrus (sensu stricto) in width, pre-uterine distance, pre-oral distance and cirrus-sac extent. Prosorhynchoides toomboensis n. sp. differs from similar species by combinations of characters presented in a table. The bucephalids of Sphyraena spp. are listed and discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW75BD, UK. rab@nhm.ac.uk
authors.forename: Rodney A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Bray
authors.forename: Jean-Lou
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Justine
mesh_terms: D000825:Animal Structures / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D000818:Animals; D007597:Jordan; D008853:Microscopy; D009510:New Caledonia; D010473:Perciformes / Q000469:parasitology*; D014200:Trematoda / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification*