Two new species of philometrid nematodes (Nematoda: Philometridae) in Epinephelus coioides (Hamilton, 1822) from the South Bali Sea, Indonesia

Autor: Dewi, Kartika; Palm, Harry. W.
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ZOOTAXA

Bandangabe: 3609
Ergaenzung: ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:762CDAB8-4576-47E3-8A19-722664529E0C
ISBN: 1175-5326
Seite: 49 - 59
Jahr: 2013

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Institut: Professur Aquakultur und Sea-Ranching

Abstract:
Based on light and scanning electron microscopy, two new species of philometrid nematodes, Spirophilometra endangae
sp. nov. and Philometra epinepheli sp. nov. (Nematoda: Dracunculoidea: Philometridae) are described from Epinephelus
coioides (Hamilton, 1822) (Perciformes: Serranidae) from the South Bali Sea, Indonesia. Spirophilometra endangae sp.
nov. was isolated from the fins of E. coioides. The new species can be distinguished from the most closely related S.
eichleri Parukhin, 1971 by a larger total body length and the site of infection in the host. The new species differs from S.
centropomi (Caballero, 1974) also in the larger body size of the gravid females and the site of infection in the host. S. endangae
sp. nov. differs from S. pacifica (Moravec, Santana-Pineros, Gonzales-Solis & Torres-Huerta, 2007) in the structure
and arrangement of the spines on the middle part of the body, the infection site of the worm, the type host and the
zoogeographical host distribution. Philometra epinepheli sp. nov. differs from all other Philometra spp. congeners so far
recorded from Ephinepelus groupers in the total body length and the site of infection. This is the first opercula-infecting
species of Philometra described from the fish family Serranidae.

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