CHORICOTYLE-LEONILAVAZQUEZAE SP. N. (MONOGENEA, DICLIDOPHORIDAE) PARASITIC ON MICROLEPIDOTUS-BREVIPINNIS (OSTEICHTHYES, HAEMULIDAE) FROM CHAMELA BAY, JALISCO, MEXICO

Authors
LAMOTHEARGUMEDO R ARANDACRUZ C DELEON GPP
Citation
R. Lamotheargumedo et al., CHORICOTYLE-LEONILAVAZQUEZAE SP. N. (MONOGENEA, DICLIDOPHORIDAE) PARASITIC ON MICROLEPIDOTUS-BREVIPINNIS (OSTEICHTHYES, HAEMULIDAE) FROM CHAMELA BAY, JALISCO, MEXICO, Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 65(1), 1998, pp. 24-30
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology,Parasitiology
Journal title
Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington → ACNP
ISSN journal
1049233X
Volume
65
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
24 - 30
Database
ISI
SICI code
1049-233X(1998)65:1<24:CSN(DP>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
A new species of Choricotyle van Beneden and Hesse, 1863, is described from the gills of the sarangola Microlepidotus brevipinnis (Steindach ner) Jordan and Fisher, (Haemulidae), from the Pacific Ocean in Chamel a Bay, Jalisco State, Mexico. Between May 1993 and May 1995, 53 specim ens of M. brevipinnis were collected and examined for parasites. Chori cotyle leonilavezquezae sp. n. is distinct from other species within t he genus because of the presence of 2 well-developed horseshoe-shaped oral suckers, the shorter longitudinal axis of the haptor, the presenc e of 8 spines in the genital atrium, and the distribution of vitellari a that extend to the basal area of the peduncles.