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Neolebouria pallenisca Shipley & Hornell 1905, n. comb.

Description

Neolebouria pallenisca (Shipley & Hornell, 1905) n. comb.

Synonyms: Distoma palleniscum Shipley & Hornell, 1905; Plagioporus palleniscus (Shipley & Hornell, 1905) Yamaguti, 1952; Hamacreadium palleniscum (Shipley & Hornell, 1905) Yamaguti, 1953.

Records. From a “filefish or triggerfish, Balistes sp.” off Sri Lanka by Shipley & Hornell (1905) as D. palleniscum.

Remarks. The excretory vesicle was not described in this species, and the ovary is tri-lobed. The genital pore is distinctly post-bifurcal, but also inter-caecal, and it therefore is most similar to species of Neolebouria belonging to the “maorum” body-type of Dronen et al. (2014). Notably, one of these species, Neolebouria cantherini (Li, Qiu & Zhang, 1988) Cribb, 2005, is known from a monacanthid (i.e. a filefish), and another, N. capoori, from Indian waters. Neolebouria pallenisca n. comb. is distinguishable from other Neolebouria species of the “maorum” bodytype by its larger size, at 5,000 µm long.

Notes

Published as part of Martin, Storm B., Cutmore, Scott C., Ward, Selina & Cribb, Thomas H., 2017, An updated concept and revised composition for Hamacreadium Linton, 1910 (Opecoelidae: Plagioporinae) clarifies a previously obscured pattern of host-specificity among species, pp. 151-187 in Zootaxa 4254 (2) on page 176, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/545862

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References

  • Shipley, A. & Hornell, J. (1905) Further report on parasites found in connection with the pearl oyster fishery at Ceylon. In: Herdman, W. A. (Ed.), Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar (Herdman). Part 3. Published at the request of the colonial government by the Royal Society, London, pp. 49 - 56.
  • Yamaguti, S. (1952) Parasitic worms mainly from Celebes. Part 1. New digenetic trematodes of fishes. Acta Medica Okayama, 8, 148 - 198.
  • Yamaguti, S. (1953) Systema Helminthum. Part 1. Digenetic Trematodes of Fishes. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, 405 pp.
  • Li, Q. - K., Qiu, Z. - Z. & Zhang, R. - S. (1988) Digenetic trematodes of fishes from the Bo-hai Sea, China V (Trematoda: Opecoelidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 14, 12 - 16.