Monogenea of Chinese marine fishes. X. A new species and two new records of the Axinidae from fishes of the south China Sea

This paper reports a new species and two new records of the Axinidae collec ted from fishes of the South China Sea. Loxuroides fungilliformis n. sp. wa s obtained from the gills of Hemirhamphus guoyi collected at Zhapo (21 degr ees 34'N, 111 degrees 49'E). The new species is similar to L. sasikala (Unn ithan, 1957) Price, 1962 in the structure of the cirrus and genital atrium, but differs from the latter in the shape and number of the spines of its g enital atrium and cirrus. Both L. sasikala and Axine tripathii Price, 1962 are recorded for the first time off China.