Published November 18, 2014 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Nybelinia undetermined

  • 1. Veterinary Clinical Centre, University of Melbourne, Werribee, Victoria 3030, Australia
  • 2. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom
  • 3. School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
  • 4. ISYEB, Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (UMR 7205 CNRS, EPHE, MNHN, UPMC), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CP 51, 55 rue Buffon, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France

Description

2. Nybelinia sp. B (Fig. 9)

Material examined: plerocercoid from Parupeneus multifasciatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825), New Caledonia, MNHN JNC 2172 C4.

Scolex length 1750, pars bothrialis 1100, pars vaginalis 1000, bulbs elongate, 560 long, velum 200, metabasal hooks: length 20, base 14.

Remarks

This specimen most closely resembles N. strongyla Dollfus, 1960 in scolex length, bulb length and hook size and shape, but differs in the length of the velum (690–830 in N. strongyla compared with 200 in the present material).

Notes

Published as part of Beveridge, Ian, Bray, Rodney A., Cribb, Thomas H. & Justine, Jean-Lou, 2014, Diversity of trypanorhynch metacestodes in teleost fishes from coral reefs off eastern Australia and New Caledonia, pp. 1-19 in Parasite (Paris, France) (Paris, France) 21 (60) on page 14, DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2014060, http://zenodo.org/record/12524184

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