Lethrinitrema lethrini

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Dactylogyridea
Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Phylum: Platyhelminthes Classis: Monogenea Subclassis: Monopisthocotylea Ordo: Dactylogyridea

Familia: Ancyrocephalidae
Genus: Lethrinitrema
Species: Lethrinitrema lethrini

Name

• Lethrinitrema lethrini (Yamaguti, 1937) Lim & Justine, 2011
• Synonyms:
  • Ancyrocephalus lethrini Yamaguti, 1937
  • Haliotrema lethrini (Yamaguti, 1937) Young, 1968
• Type-host: Lethrinus haematopterus (Lethrinidae, Perciformes, Teleostei)
• Other hosts: Lethrinus miniatus (Lethrinidae, Perciformes, Teleostei)
• Type-locality: Off Japan
• Habitat: gills

References

Original description

• Yamaguti, S. 1937: Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part I9. Fourteen new ectoparasitic trematodes of fishes: Printed by the author.

Combination as Haliotrema

• Young, P. C. 1968: Ten new species of Haliotrema Johnston and Tiegs, 1922 (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae) from Australian fishes and a revision of the genus. Journal of Zoology, London, 154, 41-75.

Current combination

• Lim, L. H. S. & Justine, J.-L. 2011: Two new species of ancyrocephalid monogeneans from Lethrinus rubrioperculatus Sato (Perciformes: Lethrinidae) off New Caledonia, with the proposal of Lethrinitrema n. g. Systematic Parasitology, 78, 123-128. doi: 10.1007/s11230-010-9283-6

Other hosts

• Rohde, K., Hayward, C. & Heap, M., 1995: Aspects of the ecology of metazoan ectoparasites of marine fishes. International Journal for Parasitology, 25, 945-970.

External Links

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